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From renowned true-crime historian Harold Schechter, whom The Boston Book Review hails as “America’s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers,” comes the riveting exploration of a notorious, sensational New York City murder in the 1890s, the fascinating forensic science of an earlier age, and the explosively dramatic trial that became a tabloid sensation at the turn of the century.

Death was by poison and came in the mail: A package of Bromo Seltzer had been anonymously sent to Harry Cornish, the popular athletic director of Manhattan’s elite Knickerbocker Athletic Club. Cornish barely survived swallowing a small dose; his cousin Mrs. Katherine Adams died in agony after ingesting the toxic brew. Scandal sheets owned by Hearst and Pulitzer eagerly jumped on this story of fatal high-society intrigue, speculating that the devious killer was a chemist, a woman, or “an effeminate man.” Forensic studies suggested cyanide as the cause of death; handwriting on the deadly package and the vestige of a label glued to the bottle pointed to a handsome, athletic society scamp, Roland Molineux.

The wayward son of a revered Civil War general, Molineux had clashed bitterly with Cornish before. He had even furiously denounced Cornish when penning his resignation from the Knickerbocker Club, a letter that later proved a major clue. Bon vivant Molineux had recently wed the sensuous Blanche Chesebrough, an opera singer whose former lover, Henry Barnet, had also recently died . . . after taking medicine sent to him through the mail. Molineux’s subsequent indictment for murder led to two explosive trials, a sex-infused scandal that shocked the nation, and a lurid print-media circus that ended in madness and a proud family’s disgrace.
In bold, brilliant strokes, Schechter captures all the colors of the tumultuous legal case, gathering his own evidence and tackling subjects no one dared address at the time–all in hopes of answering the tantalizing question: What powerfully dark motives could drive the wealthy scion of an eminent New York family to foul murder?

Schechter vividly portrays the case’s fascinating cast of characters, including Julian Hawthorne, son of Nathaniel Hawthorne, a prolific yellow journalist who covered the story, and proud General Edward Leslie Molineux, whose son’s ignoble deeds besmirched a dignified national hero’s final years. All the while Schechter brings alive Manhattan’s Gilded Age: a gaslit world of elegant town houses and hidden bordellos, chic restaurants and shabby opium dens, a city peopled by men and women fighting and losing the battle against urges an upright era had ordered suppressed.

Superbly researched and powerfully written, The Devil’s Gentleman is an insightful, gripping work, a true-crime historian’s crowning achievement..
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Communists vilified her as a raging neurotic Leftists dismissed her as a confused idealist. Her family pitied her as an exploited lover. Some said she was a traitor, a stooge, a mercenary, and a grandstander To others she was a true American heroine -- fearless, principled, bold, and resolute. Congressional committees loved her. The FBI hailed her as an avenging angel. The Catholics embraced her. But the fact is, more than a half century after she captured the headlines as the "Red Spy Queen," Elizabeth Bentley remains a mystery.

New England-born, conservatively raised, and Vassar-educated, Bentley was groomed for a quiet life, a small life, which she explored briefly in the 1920s as a teacher, instructing well-heeled young women on the beauty of Romance languages at an East Coast boarding school. But in her mid-twenties she rejected both past and future and set herself on an entirely new course. In the 1930s she embraced communism and fell in love with an undercover KGB agent who initiated her into the world of espionage. By the time America plunged into World War II, Elizabeth Bentley was directing the operations of the two largest spy rings in America. Eventually, she had eighty people in her secret apparatus, half of them employees of the federal government. Her sources were everywhere: in the departments of Treasury and Commerce, in New Deal agencies, in the top-secret OSS (the precursor to the CIA), on congressional committees, even in the Oval Office.

When she defected in 1945 and told her story -- first to the FBI and then at a series of public hearings and trials -- she was catapulted to tabloid fame as the "Red Spy Queen," ushering in, almost single-handedly, the McCarthy Era. She was the government's star witness, the FBI's most important informer, and the darling of the Catholic anticommunist movement. Her disclosures and accusations put a halt to Russian spying for years and helped to set the tone of American postwar political life.

But who was she? A smart, independent woman who made her choices freely, right and wrong, and had the strength of character to see them through? Or was she used and manipulated by others?

Clever Girl is the definitive biography of a conflicted American woman and her controversial legacy. Set against the backdrop of the political drama that defined mid-twentieth century America, it explores the spy case whose explosive domestic and foreign policy repercussions have been debated for decades but not fully revealed -- until now.

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This beautifully designed book is a remarkable biblical study of worship and includes suggestions to encourage readers to adopt a lifestyle of worship. Perfect for Bible studies, book clubs, and group discussions..
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When an itinerant Jewish businessman is commanded (condemned?) by Christ to "tarry here until I return," he spends the next 2000 years trying to keep busy and occasionally helping along the advancement of civilization .
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Title: Gunship humanitarianism: the Tampa-led reaction has ushered in a series of unprecedented attacks on the judicial and legislative arms of government and on fundamental rights under Australian law.
Author: Nehal Bhuta
Publication:Arena Magazine (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2001
Publisher: Arena Printing and Publications Pty. Ltd.
Page: 49(3)

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Title: Special in so many ways.(Sports)(Oregon's 1994 Rose Bowl team ushered in a new era of excellence)
Publication:The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: October 15, 2005
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Page: B1

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This digital document is an article from San Diego Business Journal, published by CBJ, L.P. on January 16, 1989. The length of the article is 1392 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Still banking on biotech, Demski changes course; woman who ushered Bank of America into biotech funding takes executive position at startup Vical Inc. (Martha Demski)
Author: Mary Hardie
Publication:San Diego Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 16, 1989
Publisher: CBJ, L.P.
Volume: v9 Issue: n26 Page: p10(2)

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Title: Through a portal; the grounding of the tanker Exxon Valdez ushered in a new era for Alaska's oil industry.
Author: Ray Tyson
Publication:Alaska Business Monthly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 1989
Publisher: Alaska Business Publishing Company, Inc.
Volume: v5 Issue: n10 Page: p38(5)

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Title: Berry Gordy: America's First Black Music Mogul: the architect of the Motown sound ushered in a new era of music.(Ultimate Wealth Builders)
Author: Kenneth Meeks
Publication:Black Enterprise (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2005
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Volume: 36 Issue: 3 Page: 28(1)

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