Defy All The Devils

Author : Norman Zierold
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504050886
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defy All the Devils written by Norman Zierold and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “fascinating, hair-raising, suspenseful” account of a little boy abducted in broad daylight and the desperate manhunt to find him (The New York Times Book Review). On July 1, 1874, four-year-old Charley Ross and his older brother, Walter, were playing in front of their stately Philadelphia home when a horse-drawn carriage pulled up with two men who offered candy and fireworks if the boys would ride with them. Hours later, Walter came back, stating that they had ridden through the city until the men abandoned him in the street but kept Charley. Soon after, their father, Christian K. Ross, received a demand for $20,000 in return for his son. Ross went to the police for help—and before long, the case became a national phenomenon. A popular song pleaded for the boy’s safe return. The Philadelphia police searched every home in the city, and thousands of people falsely reported that they had seen Charley or knew his whereabouts. Meanwhile, the kidnappers’ ransom letters were becoming more threatening and bizarre. The press, eager to fan the flames of hysteria, printed wholly fabricated stories and even accused Christian Ross of orchestrating the whole thing in order to hide the fact that Charley was illegitimate. And then the men who took Charley went silent . . . This is the chilling true story of a crime that transfixed a still-growing America, the unlikely series of events that produced the case’s most tantalizing clues, and the tragic twist of fate that plunged the Ross family back into darkness and haunted them for decades to come. Originally published as Little Charley Ross.

Author : Bethany McLean
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101551054
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All the Devils Are Here written by Bethany McLean and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hell is empty, and all the devils are here." -Shakespeare, The Tempest As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began. Should the blame fall on Wall Street, Main Street, or Pennsylvania Avenue? On greedy traders, misguided regulators, sleazy subprime companies, cowardly legislators, or clueless home buyers? According to Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, two of America's most acclaimed business journalists, the real answer is all of the above-and more. Many devils helped bring hell to the economy. And the full story, in all of its complexity and detail, is like the legend of the blind men and the elephant. Almost everyone has missed the big picture. Almost no one has put all the pieces together. All the Devils Are Here goes back several decades to weave the hidden history of the financial crisis in a way no previous book has done. It explores the motivations of everyone from famous CEOs, cabinet secretaries, and politicians to anonymous lenders, borrowers, analysts, and Wall Street traders. It delves into the powerful American mythology of homeownership. And it proves that the crisis ultimately wasn't about finance at all; it was about human nature. Among the devils you'll meet in vivid detail: • Angelo Mozilo, the CEO of Countrywide, who dreamed of spreading homeownership to the masses, only to succumb to the peer pressure-and the outsized profits-of the sleaziest subprime lending. • Roland Arnall, a respected philanthropist and diplomat, who made his fortune building Ameriquest, a subprime lending empire that relied on blatantly deceptive lending practices. • Hank Greenberg, who built AIG into a Rube Goldberg contraption with an undeserved triple-A rating, and who ran it so tightly that he was the only one who knew where all the bodies were buried. • Stan O'Neal of Merrill Lynch, aloof and suspicious, who suffered from "Goldman envy" and drove a proud old firm into the ground by promoting cronies and pushing out his smartest lieutenants. • Lloyd Blankfein, who helped turn Goldman Sachs from a culture that famously put clients first to one that made clients secondary to its own bottom line. • Franklin Raines of Fannie Mae, who (like his predecessors) bullied regulators into submission and let his firm drift away from its original, noble mission. • Brian Clarkson of Moody's, who aggressively pushed to increase his rating agency's market share and stock price, at the cost of its integrity. • Alan Greenspan, the legendary maestro of the Federal Reserve, who ignored the evidence of a growing housing bubble and turned a blind eye to the lending practices that ultimately brought down Wall Street-and inflicted enormous pain on the country. Just as McLean's The Smartest Guys in the Room was hailed as the best Enron book on a crowded shelf, so will All the Devils Are Here be remembered for finally making sense of the meltdown and its consequences.

Author : Amber Hunt
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
ISBN 13 : 1454949112
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crimes of the Centuries written by Amber Hunt and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating pop-history dive into the stories behind the incredibly impactful crimes—both infamous and little-known—that have shaped the legal system as we know it. When asked why true crime is so in vogue, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Amber Hunt always has the same answer: it’s no hotter than it’s always been. Crimes and trials have captured American consciousness since the Salem Witch Trials in the seventeenth century. And these cases over the centuries have fundamentally changed our society and shifted our legal system, resulting in the laws we have today and setting the stage for new rights and protections. From the first recorded murder trial led by the first legal dream team, to one of the earliest uses of DNA, these cases will fascinate.

Author : David Greven
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813951038
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All the Devils Are Here written by David Greven and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2024-04-10 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English literary influence on classic American novelists’ depictions of gender, sexuality, and race With All the Devils Are Here, the literary scholar David Greven makes a signal contribution to the growing list of studies dedicated to tracing threads of literary influence. Herman Melville’s, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, and James Fenimore Cooper’s uses of Shakespeare and Milton, he finds, reflect not just an intertextual relationship between American Romanticism and the English tradition but also an ongoing engagement with gender and sexual politics. Greven limns the effect of Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing on Hawthorne’s exploration of patriarchy, and he shows how misogyny in King Lear informed Melville’s evocation of “the step-mother world” of orphaned men in Moby-Dick. Throughout, Greven focuses particularly on male authors’ treatment of femininity, arguing that the figure of woman functions for them as a multivalent signifier for artistic expression. Ultimately, Greven demonstrates the ambitions of these writers to comment on the history of the Western tradition and the future of art from their unique positions as Americans.

Author : Francisco de Quevedo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions: being a satire on the Corruptions and Vices of all degrees of Mankind ... Translated from the original Spanish ... Adorned with curious copper-plate cuts. By Mr. Nunez written by Francisco de Quevedo and published by . This book was released on 1745 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip C. Almond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113945160X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England written by Philip C. Almond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is exclusively devoted to demonic possession and exorcism in early modern England. It offers modernized versions of the most significant early modern texts on nine cases of demonic possession from the period 1570 to 1650, the key period in English history for demonic possession. The nine stories were all written by eyewitnesses or were derived from eyewitness reports. They involve matters of life and death, sin and sanctity, guilt and innocence, of crimes which could not be committed and punishments which could not be deserved. The nine critical introductions which accompany the stories address the different strategic intentions of those who wrote them. The modernized texts and critical introductions are placed within the context of a wide-ranging general Introduction to demonic possession in England across the period 1550 to 1700.

Author : Francisco de Quevedo
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo Villegas written by Francisco de Quevedo and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo Villegas" is a satire that taxes corruption of manners, in all sorts and degrees of people, without reflecting upon particular states or persons. It is full of sharpness and morality. Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas (1580-1645) was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era. Along with his lifelong rival, Luis de Góngora, Quevedo was one of the most prominent Spanish poets of the age.

Author : William JONES (Elder in the Presbyterian Church at Bristol, U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A true account of all the Presbyterian and Congregational Ministers that were settled or preached for a year or more from Kennebec to St. George's Fort, for seventy and seven years past to this time, etc written by William JONES (Elder in the Presbyterian Church at Bristol, U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francisco de Quevedo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions written by Francisco de Quevedo and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francisco de Quevedo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The author's life. The visions written by Francisco de Quevedo and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: