Books written by Dick Lehr

The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights

45 color line was erased: NAACP Papers, NAACP Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, May 1914; Second Session, Boston branch report by Butler R. Wilson, 18, 2–7. 46 “Oh! Susanna!”: Boston Public Library, Rare Books and Manuscripts, ...
The Birth of a Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America's Civil War

This is the fiery story of a revolutionary moment for mass media and the nascent civil rights movement, and the men clashing over the cultural and political soul of a still-young America standing at the cusp of its greatest days.
Dead Reckoning: The Story of How Johnny Mitchell and His Fighter Pilots Took on Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor

THIS IS NO DRILL.” At 7:58 a.m. on December 7, 1941, an officer at the Ford Island Command Center typed what would become one of the most famous radio dispatches in history, as the Japanese navy launched a surprise aerial assault on U.S. ...
Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devil's Deal

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989. O'Connor, Thomas H. South Boston: My Home Town. Boston: Quinlan Press, 1988. ——. Bible, Brahmins, and Bosses: A Short History of Boston. Boston: Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston, ...
Whitey: The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss

In a lifetime of crime and murder that ended with his arrest in June 2011, Whitey Bulger became one of the most powerful and deadly crime bosses of the twentieth century. This is his story.
Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI and a Devil's Deal

Now a major film starring Johnny Depp and Benedict Cumberbatch, Sienna Miller and Joel Edgerton.
White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America's Heartland

White Hot Hate will tell the riveting true story of an averted case of domestic terrorism in one of the most remote towns in the US, not far from the infamous town where Capote’s In Cold Blood was set.
Search for the Strangler: My Hunt for Boston's Most Notorious Killer

Originally published as "A Rose for Mary," this account by the nephew of the so-called Boston Strangler's last victim details his ten-year quest to find the real killer of 13 women in the early 1960s, and describes an unlikely alliance with ...
Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob

Explores the relationship between FBI agent John Connolly and Irish mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger, chronicling a corrupt arrangement of information, racketeering, and murder.
The Underboss: The Rise and Fall of a Mafia Family

In The Underboss, bestselling authors Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill tell the story of the fall of the house of Angiulo.
Whitey: The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss

In a lifetime of crime and murder that ended with his arrest in June 2011, Whitey Bulger became one of the most powerful and deadly crime bosses of the twentieth century. This is his story.
Trell

Dick Lehr, a former reporter for the Boston Globe’s famous Spotlight Team who worked on this story three decades ago, brings the case to light once more with Trell, a page-turning novel about the daughter of the imprisoned man, who ...
Nothing But the Truth

Inspired by the true story of a young man's false imprisonment for murder, this is a gripping novel about a daughter's fight for justice against the odds.In his first book for teenagers, Dick Lehr, a former reporter for the Boston Globe's ...
Dead Reckoning: The Story of How Johnny Mitchell and His Fighter Pilots Took on Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor

"AIR RAID, PEARL HARBOR. THIS IS NOT DRILL.
The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights

This is the fiery story of a revolutionary moment for mass media and the nascent civil rights movement, and the men clashing over the cultural and political soul of a still-young America standing at the cusp of its greatest days.
Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders

Authors Mitchell Zuckoff and Dick Lehr provide a vivid explication of a murder that captivated the nation, as well as dramatic revelations about the forces that turned two popular teenagers into killers.
The Underboss: The Rise and Fall of a Mafia Family

Now in an updated and revised edition, the definitive book on the Boston Mafia, by the authors of the bestselling, Edgar award-winning true crime thriller "Black Mass."