Rogues' Gallery
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Rogues' Gallery: The Birth of Modern Policing and Organized Crime in Gilded Age New York
By John Oller... March 17 , 1907 ( Coakley ) ; Byrnes ( 1886 ) , 153 ( Wilmont ) , 163 ( Coakley ) , 189-90 ( Goodie ) ; Sun , March 9 ( Wilmont ) , June 14 , 15 ( Nugent ) , December 17 , 18 , 1879 ; Brooklyn Daily Eagle , March 10 , 1879 ( Wilmont ) ...
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Rogues' Gallery: The Secret Story of the Lust, Lies, Greed, and Betrayals That Made the Metropolitan Museum of Art
By Michael GrossThe Metropolitan, Gross writes, “is a huge alchemical experiment, turning the worst of man’s attributes—extravagance, lust, gluttony, acquisitiveness, envy, avarice, greed, egotism, and pride—into the very best, transmuting deadly ...
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Rogues' Gallery: The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum
By Michael GrossLike their neighbors the Wrightsmans , the Pauls sometimes loaned their Palm Beach mansion to President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy ; Josephine was an old friend of Joe Kennedy's . But in August 1962 , she died , and Paul , who was known ...
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Rogues' Gallery: The Birth of Modern Policing and Organized Crime in Gilded Age New York
By John OllerThis is a tale of unforgettable characters: Marm Mandelbaum, a matronly German-immigrant woman who paid off cops and politicians to protect her empire of fencing stolen goods; "Clubber" Williams, a sadistic policeman who wielded a twenty ...
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Rogues' Gallery: The Birth of Modern Policing and Organized Crime in Gilded Age New York
By John OllerThis is a tale of unforgettable characters: Marm Mandelbaum, a matronly German-immigrant woman who paid off cops and politicians to protect her empire of fencing stolen goods; "Clubber" Williams, a sadistic policeman who wielded a twenty ...
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Rogues' Gallery
By John Patrick ShanleyTen bizarre, explosive, and darkly humorous stories. This collection of monologues from the imagination of Pulitzer Prize-winning John Patrick Shanley delves into the allure of bad behavior and the absurdity of being human.
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Rogues' Gallery
By Gentry ThomasonAll are born into original sin. Describing that condition and contemplating how to escape its circumstance is a preoccupation of Rogues Gallery.
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Rogues' Gallery: 247 Professional Criminals of 19th-century America
By Thomas ByrnesProfiles pickpockets, safecrackers, crime czars, and scoundrels in between by a late-19th-century detective
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Rogues' Gallery: A History of Art and its Dealers
By Philip HookPhilip Hook's history is one of human folly, greed and duplicity, interspersed with ingenuity, inspiration and acts of heroism. Rogues' Gallery is learned, witty and irresistibly readable.
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Rogues' Gallery
By Daniel EllerRogues' Gallery
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Rogues' Gallery: The Rise (and Occasional Fall) of Art Dealers, the Hidden Players in the History of Art
By Philip HookPhilip Hook’s riveting narrative takes us from the early days of art dealing in Antwerp, where paintings were sold by weight, to the unassailable hauteur of contemporary galleries in New York, London, Paris, and beyond.