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Madison Square Tragedy

Rick Geary
Madison Square Tragedy Book PDF

Author : Rick Geary
Publisher : NBM Publishing
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781561637621

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Madison Square Tragedy by Rick Geary Pdf

Nominee: Reuben Award for Best Graphic Novel YALSA, Great Graphic Novels for Teens Bringing to life turn-of-the-century New York and the scintillating career of one of its most famous architects, as well as the vices that cost him his life, this true-crime graphic novel tells the story of one of the most scandalous murders of the times. Stanford White was one of New York's most famous architects, having designed many mansions and the first Madison Square Garden; his influence on New York's look at the turn of the century was pervasive. As he became popular and in demand, he also became quite self-indulgent: he had a taste for budding young showgirls on Broadway, even setting up a private apartment to entertain them in, including a room with a red velvet swing. When he met Evelyn Nesbit—an exquisite young nymph, cover girl, showgirl, inspiration for Charles Dana Gibson's drawing The Eternal Question and later for the movie The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing—he knew he was on to something special. However, Evelyn eventually married a young Pittsburgh decadent heir with a dark side who developed a deep hatred for White and what he may or may not have done to her.

Madison Square Tragedy

Rick Geary
Madison Square Tragedy Book PDF

Author : Rick Geary
Publisher : NBM Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781561637638

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Madison Square Tragedy by Rick Geary Pdf

Nominee: Reuben Award for Best Graphic Novel YALSA, Great Graphic Novels for Teens Bringing to life turn-of-the-century New York and the scintillating career of one of its most famous architects, as well as the vices that cost him his life, this true-crime graphic novel tells the story of one of the most scandalous murders of the times. Stanford White was one of New York's most famous architects, having designed many mansions and the first Madison Square Garden; his influence on New York's look at the turn of the century was pervasive. As he became popular and in demand, he also became quite self-indulgent: he had a taste for budding young showgirls on Broadway, even setting up a private apartment to entertain them in, including a room with a red velvet swing. When he met Evelyn Nesbit—an exquisite young nymph, cover girl, showgirl, inspiration for Charles Dana Gibson's drawing The Eternal Question and later for the movie The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing—he knew he was on to something special. However, Evelyn eventually married a young Pittsburgh decadent heir with a dark side who developed a deep hatred for White and what he may or may not have done to her.

Treasury of XX Century Murder Compendium I

Rick Geary
Treasury of XX Century Murder Compendium I Book PDF

Author : Rick Geary
Publisher : NBM
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781681121529

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Treasury of XX Century Murder Compendium I by Rick Geary Pdf

Witness the most controversial and famous true crime cases that shook the 20th century! These 240 pages retell the love affair that ended the life of prominent architect Stanford White, the New Orleans' Axe-Man and his gruesome killing spree, and the abduction (and resulting media circus) of aviator Charles Lindbergh's son—all collected in a handsome quarter-bound omnibus.

The True Death of Billy the Kid

Rick Geary
The True Death of Billy the Kid Book PDF

Author : Rick Geary
Publisher : NBM
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781681121369

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The True Death of Billy the Kid by Rick Geary Pdf

One of the great folk legends of the Wild West, William H. Bonney went from cowboy and rancher's gunslinger to a pure outlaw, forever dodging justice in New Mexico before it was even a state. On the one hand, he was charming, fun-loving, often present at social events, quite appealing to the ladies. Also conversant in Spanish, "Billito" was popular with the Spanish speaking crowd. On the other hand, he had no compunction to coldly kill a man, a sheriff, a deputy—anyone who got in the way of his rustling cattle or horses for an illicit living. He also proved hard to keep in jail once he was caught. It is probably his daring escapes from jails that made him most famous, and this is the main subject of this biography, which traces his story up through his death by a gunshot in the pitch darkness, fired by lawmen obsessed with getting rid of him.

Black Dahlia

Rick Geary
Black Dahlia Book PDF

Author : Rick Geary
Publisher : NBM
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781681120546

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Black Dahlia by Rick Geary Pdf

On January 15, 1947, a woman was walking with her daughter in a Los Angeles neighborhood. She passed what looked to be a discarded manikin. It turned out to be the body of Elizabeth Short: posed, drained of blood, meticulously scrubbed, and cut in two. From this point, Geary reconstitutes and reveals for us the life of this 22-year-old woman who had become known as "Black Dahlia" because of her striking appearance. How could her life have ended in such a ghastly fashion? Was it a jealous boyfriend, a rejected suitor, or one of LA's notorious mafia connections whom she had apparently been dabbling with? The case gets more complex when, days later, a local newspaper receives a cut-out letter from an anonymous "Black Dahlia Avenger" admitting to the crime.

Tragedy at Graignes

Margaret R. O'Leary,Dennis S. O'Leary
Tragedy at Graignes Book PDF

Author : Margaret R. O'Leary,Dennis S. O'Leary
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781450283311

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Tragedy at Graignes by Margaret R. O'Leary,Dennis S. O'Leary Pdf

Tragedy at Graignes tells the story of Captain Bud Sophian, the only US Army officer who did not flee Graignes, France, as the Waffen SS overran the American positions and stormed the village. Sophian was a surgeon, and he refused to abandon the fourteen wounded paratroopers in his care. He surrendered by waving a white flag at the door of the badly shelled Norman church where his aid station was located. He hoped for fair prisoner treatment in accordance with the Geneva Convention of 1929. The German troops instead committed unspeakable atrocities, leaving many of the American prisoners mutilated in grotesque heaps. All of the American prisoners, including Sophian, were killed. Captain Sophians judgment and actions in the US Army were the culmination of the rich and challenging life he led prior to the Second World War. Buds correspondence with his sister and other Sophian archival materials tell the story of this compelling life. These letters are reproduced verbatim in Tragedy at Graignes: The Bud Sophian Story so that Bud and other authors may speak directly to you and to the historical record.

The Grandest Madison Square Garden

Suzanne Hinman
The Grandest Madison Square Garden Book PDF

Author : Suzanne Hinman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780815654858

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The Grandest Madison Square Garden by Suzanne Hinman Pdf

November 1891, the heart of Gilded Age Manhattan. Thousands filled the streets surrounding Madison Square, fingers pointing, mouths agape. After countless struggles, Stanford White—the country’s most celebrated architect was about to dedicate America’s tallest tower, the final cap set atop his Madison Square Garden, the country’s grandest new palace of pleasure. Amid a flood of electric light and fireworks, the gilded figure topping the tower was suddenly revealed—an eighteen-foot nude sculpture of Diana, the Roman Virgin Goddess of the Hunt, created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the country’s finest sculptor and White’s dearest pal. The Grandest Madison Square Garden tells the remarkable story behind the construction of the second, 1890, Madison Square Garden and the controversial sculpture that crowned it. Set amid the magnificent achievements of nineteenth-century American art and architecture, the book delves into the fascinating private lives of the era’s most prominent architect and sculptor and the nature of their intimate relationship. Hinman shows how both men pushed the boundaries of America’s parochial aesthetic, ushering in an era of art that embraced European styles with American vitality. Situating the Garden’s seminal place in the history of New York City, as well as the entire country, The Grandest Madison Square Garden brings to life a tale of architecture, art, and spectacle amid the elegant yet scandal-ridden culture of Gotham’s decadent era.

Lovers' Lane

Rick Geary
Lovers Lane Book PDF

Author : Rick Geary
Publisher : NBM Publishing
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781561637430

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Lovers' Lane by Rick Geary Pdf

The perfect ingredients for a juicy scandal and fascinating investigation are presented in this masterful graphic novel retelling of an unsolved murder from the 1920s. On the evening of September 14, 1922, Reverend Edward Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills take a stroll in the New Brunswick town park. Shots are heard and two days later their bodies are found lying neatly next to each other, love letters strewn around them, and a scarf obscures the fact that Mrs. Mills’ throat has been slit. The two had been involved in an affair and the press hungrily devours the story. No evidence is sufficient to lead to an indictment, so the mystery intensifies with conjecture: Was this a dual suicide? Was this perpetrated by a jealous rival? Four years later the case reopens due to new evidence indicting the reverend’s wife, but she is an upstanding member of the community who vehemently denies that her husband ever had an affair. This is a tragic story told with beguiling relish and expert illustration in a distinctive style fitting of the era.

Louise Brooks: Detective

Rick Geary
Louise Brooks Detective Book PDF

Author : Rick Geary
Publisher : NBM Publishing
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781561639540

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Louise Brooks: Detective by Rick Geary Pdf

A fictional story centered on actress Louise Brooks, this graphic novel by Rick Geary is spun around her actual brief meteoric career as a smoldering film actress who popularized bangs. Geary fantasizes about her coming back to her home town of Wichita where she becomes intrigued by a murder involving a friend, a famous reclusive writer and a shady beau. Not before she gets herself in great danger will she emerge with the solution the police fail to grasp.

American Eve

Paula Uruburu
American Eve Book PDF

Author : Paula Uruburu
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440629761

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American Eve by Paula Uruburu Pdf

The scandalous story of America’s first supermodel, sex goddess, and modern celebrity—Evelyn Nesbit. By the time of her sixteenth birthday in 1900, Evelyn Nesbit was known to millions as the most photographed woman of her era, an iconic figure who set the standard for female beauty, and whose innocent sexuality was used to sell everything from chocolates to perfume. Women wanted to be her. Men just wanted her. But when Evelyn’s life of fantasy became all too real and her insanely jealous millionaire husband, Harry K. Thaw, murdered her lover, New York City architect Stanford White, the most famous woman in the world became infamous as she found herself at the center of the “Crime of the Century” and a scandal that signaled the beginning of a national obsession with youth, beauty, celebrity, and sex.

Between the Ropes at Madison Square Garden

Mark Allen Baker
Between the Ropes at Madison Square Garden Book PDF

Author : Mark Allen Baker
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476671833

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Between the Ropes at Madison Square Garden by Mark Allen Baker Pdf

 Inside Madison Square Garden, the City Ring was the altar of pugilism from 1925 until 2007. Hosting countless championship fights, historic main events and memorable undercards, it was center stage of boxing history. The ring now rests at the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York--its 132 assembled pieces memorializing a key facet of 20th century American life. While many books have been written about great fistic contests that took place at Madison Square Garden, this is the first to focus on its Holy Grail.

The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy

Walter A. McDougall
The Tragedy of U S Foreign Policy Book PDF

Author : Walter A. McDougall
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300224511

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The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy by Walter A. McDougall Pdf

A fierce critique of civil religion as the taproot of America’s bid for global hegemony Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Walter A. McDougall argues powerfully that a pervasive but radically changing faith that “God is on our side” has inspired U.S. foreign policy ever since 1776. The first comprehensive study of the role played by civil religion in U.S. foreign relations over the entire course of the country’s history, McDougall’s book explores the deeply infused religious rhetoric that has sustained and driven an otherwise secular republic through peace, war, and global interventions for more than two hundred years. From the Founding Fathers and the crusade for independence to the Monroe Doctrine, through World Wars I and II and the decades-long Cold War campaign against “godless Communism,” this coruscating polemic reveals the unacknowledged but freely exercised dogmas of civil religion that bind together a “God blessed” America, sustaining the nation in its pursuit of an ever elusive global destiny.

Murderabilia

Harold Schechter
Murderabilia Book PDF

Author : Harold Schechter
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781523525751

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Murderabilia by Harold Schechter Pdf

From veteran true crime master Harold Schechter comes a unique look into the history of crime told through the dark objects left behind. The false teeth of a female serial killer from 1908, the cut-and-paste confession of the Black Dahlia killer, the newly cracked cipher of the Zodiac killer, the shotgun used in the Clutter family murders, which were made famous by Truman Capote's true crime classic In Cold Blood—these are more than simple artifacts that once belonged to notorious murderers. They are objets of fascination to the legion of true crime obsessives around the world. And not merely for fleeting dark thrills, but because they represent a way to better understand those who we typically label monsters in lieu of learning how they actually became one. In Murderabilia, veteran true crime writer Harold Schechter presents 100 murder-related artifacts spanning two centuries (1808–2014), with accompanying stories of various lengths. A visual and literary journey, it presents a history unlike any previously told in the true crime genre, one that speaks to the dark fascination of true crime fans while also presenting a larger historical timeline of how and why we continue to be captivated by the most sensational crimes and killers among us.

Young Adult Nonfiction

Elizabeth Fraser
Young Adult Nonfiction Book PDF

Author : Elizabeth Fraser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781440869808

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Young Adult Nonfiction by Elizabeth Fraser Pdf

Covering more than 500 titles, both classics and newer publications, this book describes what titles are about and why teens would want to read them. Nonfiction has been the workhorse of many young adult library collections—filling information and curricular needs—and it is also the preferred genre for many teen readers. But not all nonfiction is created equal. This guide identifies some of the best, most engaging, and authoritative nonfiction reads for teens and organizes them according to popular reading interests. With genres ranging from adventure and sports to memoirs, how-to guides and social justice, there is something for every reader here. Similar fiction titles are noted to help you make connections for readers, and "best bets" for each chapter are noted. Notations in annotations indicate award-winning titles, graphic nonfiction, and reading level. Keywords that appear in the annotations and in detailed indexes enhance access. Librarians who work with and purchase materials for teens, including YA librarians at public libraries, acquisitions and book/materials selectors at public libraries, and middle and high school librarians will find this book invaluable.

Lovers' Lane

Rick Geary
Lovers Lane Book PDF

Author : Rick Geary
Publisher : NBM Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781561636280

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Lovers' Lane by Rick Geary Pdf

The perfect ingredients for a juicy scandal and fascinating investigation are presented in this masterful graphic novel retelling of an unsolved murder from the 1920s. On the evening of September 14, 1922, Reverend Edward Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills take a stroll in the New Brunswick town park. Shots are heard and two days later their bodies are found lying neatly next to each other, love letters strewn around them, and a scarf obscures the fact that Mrs. Mills’ throat has been slit. The two had been involved in an affair and the press hungrily devours the story. No evidence is sufficient to lead to an indictment, so the mystery intensifies with conjecture: Was this a dual suicide? Was this perpetrated by a jealous rival? Four years later the case reopens due to new evidence indicting the reverend’s wife, but she is an upstanding member of the community who vehemently denies that her husband ever had an affair. This is a tragic story told with beguiling relish and expert illustration in a distinctive style fitting of the era.