The Big Hat Law

Author : Michael Lindsey
Publisher : Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
ISBN 13 : 9780980089745
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Hat Law written by Michael Lindsey and published by Butler Center for Arkansas Studies. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A colorful history of law enforcement in Arkansas full of unpredictable events..."-- Back cover.

Author : Ted Gest
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190290137
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crime & Politics written by Ted Gest and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has America experienced an explosion in crime rates since 1960? Why has the crime rate dropped in recent years? Though politicians are always ready both to take the credit for crime reduction and to exploit grisly headlines for short-term political gain, these questions remain among the most important-and most difficult to answer-in America today. In Crime & Politics, award-winning journalist Ted Gest gives readers the inside story of how crime policy is formulated inside the Washington beltway and state capitols, why we've had cycle after cycle of ineffective federal legislation, and where promising reforms might lead us in the future. Gest examines how politicians first made crime a national rather than a local issue, beginning with Lyndon Johnson's crime commission and the landmark anti-crime law of 1968 and continuing right up to such present-day measures as "three strikes" laws, mandatory sentencing, and community policing. Gest exposes a lack of consistent leadership, backroom partisan politics, and the rush to embrace simplistic solutions as the main causes for why Federal and state crime programs have failed to make our streets safe. But he also explores how the media aid and abet this trend by featuring lurid crimes that simultaneously frighten the public and encourage candidates to offer another round of quick-fix solutions. Drawing on extensive research and including interviews with Edwin Meese, Janet Reno, Joseph Biden, Ted Kennedy, and William Webster, Crime & Politics uncovers the real reasons why America continues to struggle with the crime problem and shows how we do a better job in the future.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Anthony Lukas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439128103
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Trouble written by J. Anthony Lukas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as "toweringly important" (Baltimore Sun), "a work of scrupulous and significant reportage" (E. L. Doctorow), and "an unforgettable historical drama" (Chicago Sun-Times), Big Trouble brings to life the astonishing case that ultimately engaged President Theodore Roosevelt, Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the politics and passions of an entire nation at century's turn. After Idaho's former governor is blown up by a bomb at his garden gate at Christmastime 1905, America's most celebrated detective, Pinkerton James McParland, takes over the investigation. His daringly executed plan to kidnap the radical union leader "Big Bill" Haywood from Colorado to stand trial in Idaho sets the stage for a memorable courtroom confrontation between the flamboyant prosecutor, progressive senator William Borah, and the young defender of the dispossessed, Clarence Darrow. Big Trouble captures the tumultuous first decade of the twentieth century, when capital and labor, particularly in the raw, acquisitive West, were pitted against each other in something close to class war. Lukas paints a vivid portrait of a time and place in which actress Ethel Barrymore, baseball phenom Walter Johnson, and editor William Allen White jostled with railroad magnate E. H. Harriman, socialist Eugene V. Debs, gunslinger Charlie Siringo, and Operative 21, the intrepid Pinkerton agent who infiltrated Darrow's defense team. This is a grand narrative of the United States as it charged, full of hope and trepidation, into the twentieth century.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elocutionist's Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erlinda Jean
Publisher : Partridge Singapore
ISBN 13 : 1482893436
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Little Girl in a Big Hat written by Erlinda Jean and published by Partridge Singapore. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A Little Girl in a Big Hat' is the real story of a young girl born into poverty and her struggle through life into womanhood. The author uses the hat as a metaphor for the different stages and experiences she went through in life, and as it applies to people's lives in general. From childhood through adolescence and into adulthood we all find ourselves wearing different hats. This is a fascinating story of the different hats worn by a young girl who had a very demanding, and at times, difficult life. She shares her experiences up to the present day and encourages the reader to reflect on the question, "Have you found your perfect hat, or are you still searching for it?"

Author : Dan Rempala
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557073030
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death Wears a Big Hat written by Dan Rempala and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here it is: the long awaited sequel to the cult-classic Bodies. Travel with the motleyest crew of reluctant companions the fictional world described by this book has ever seen. There's Gilbert, a bigoted former knight and idiot savant of swordplay, Carmelita, the sultry, seductive elf wench, Zappa, the world's most effeminate male dragon, and many, many more. They must save the world from destruction at the hands of a raging mega-demon by reassembling the Ring of Serpentium, the one item capable to stopping the demon's rampage across the known world.Death Wears a Big Hat picks up where Bodies left off and is nothing less than a full-throttle sleigh ride to the summit of Mount Excitement!

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Sleep written by Raymond Chandler and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Edward Jewitt Wheeler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Literary Digest written by Edward Jewitt Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kerry Segrave
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476622175
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hatpin Menace written by Kerry Segrave and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1887 and 1920, the humble hatpin went from an unremarkable item in every woman's wardrobe, to a fashion necessity, to a dangerous weapon (it was said). Big hair and big hats of the era meant big hatpins, and their weaponized use sparked controversy. There were "good" uses of hatpins, such as fending off an attacker in the street. There were also "bad" uses, such as when a woman being arrested tried to stab a police officer. But seriously: All those protruding pins seemed to threaten people everywhere in the public sphere. It did not sit well with the patriarchy, who responded with hysterical crusades and often ludicrous legislation aimed at curbing the hatpin and disarming American women.