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1) Rogues' gallery: the birth of modern policing and organized crime in Gilded Age New York

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"From the beginnings of big-city police work to the rise of the Mafia, Rogues' Gallery is a colorful and captivating history of crime and punishment in the bustling streets of Old New York"-- For centuries, New York had been a haven of crime. A thief or murderer not caught in the act nearly always got away. In the early 1870s an Irish cop by the name of Thomas Byrnes developed new ways to catch criminals. Mug shots and daily lineups helped witnesses...

2) White shoe: how a new breed of Wall Street lawyers changed big business and the American century

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English

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A former Manhattan lawyer recounts how an ambitious new class of attorneys in the twentieth century devised and implemented the strategies that launched the era of American big business and international Wall Street prominence.

3) The Swamp Fox: how Francis Marion saved the American Revolution

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Da Capo Press

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©2016.

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English

4) American queen: the rise and fall of Kate Chase Sprague, Civil War "Belle of the North" and gilded age woman of scandal

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Da Capo Press, A Member of the Perseus Books Group

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©2014.

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English

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