The almost unbelievable story of endemic corruption, and theofficial condoning by the FBI of violent crimes committed by James“Whitey” Bulger and his South Boston Irish mob, entered a newchapter with Bulger’s arrest in California. For decades the FBI letBulger get away with murder, protecting him from prosecution forcrimes it knew he had committed and allowing him continued controlof his criminal enterprise in exchange for information about therival Italian mafia and even members of his own gang.? During the 1980s, Edward J. MacKenzie, Jr., “Eddie Mac,” was a drugdealer and enforcer who would do just about anything for Bulger. Inthis compelling eyewitness account, the first from a Bulgerinsider, Eddie Mac delivers the goods on his one-time boss and onsuch former associates as Stephen ''The Rifleman'' Flemmi andturncoat FBI agent John Connolly. Eddie Mac provides a window ontoa world rarely glimpsed by those on the outside. Street Soldier is also a story of the search for family, for

For Fauziya Kassindja, an idyllic childhood in Togo, WestAfrica, sheltered from the tribal practices of polygamy and genitalmutilation, ended with her beloved father's sudden death. Forcedinto an arranged marriage at age seventeen, Fauziya was told toprepare for kakia, the ritual also known as female genitalmutilation. It is a ritual no woman can refuse. But Fauziya daredto try. This is her story--told in her own words--of fleeing Africa justhours before the ritual kakia was to take place, of seeking asylumin America only to be locked up in U.S. prisons, and of meetingLayli Miller Bashir, a law student who became Fauziya's friend andadvocate during her horrifying sixteen months behind bars. Laylienlisted help from Karen Musalo, an expert in refugee law andacting director of the American University International HumanRights Clinic. In addition to devoting her own considerable effortsto the case, Musalo assembled a team to fight with her on Fauziya'sbehalf. Ultimately, in a landmark decision in imm

He had a number one hit at eighteen. He was a millionaire withhis own record label at twenty-two. He was, according to Tom Wolfe,“the first tycoon of teen.” Phil Spector owned pop music. From theCrystals, the Ronettes (whose lead singer, Ronnie, would become hissecond wife), and the Righteous Brothers to the Beatles (togetherand singly) and finally the seventies punk icons The Ramones,Spector produced hit after hit. But then he became pop music's mostfamous recluse. Until one day in the spring of 2007, when his namehit the tabloids, connected to a horrible crime. In Tearing Downthe Wall of Sound , Mick Brown, who was the last journalist tointerview Spector before his arrest , tells the full story ofthe troubled musical genius.

The complete history of one of the most long-lived andlegendary bands in rock history, written by its official historianand publicist a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads,and for students of rock and the 1960s’ counterculture. From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one of themost beloved, unusual, and accomplished musical entities to evergrace American culture. The creative synchronicity among JerryGarcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, and Ron“Pigpen” McKernan exploded out of the artistic ferment of the earlysixties’ roots and folk scene, providing the soundtrack for theDionysian revels of the counterculture. To those in the know, theDead was an ongoing tour de force: a band whose constant commitmentto exploring new realms lay at the center of a thirty-year journeythrough an ever-shifting array of musical, cultural, and mentallandscapes. Dennis McNally, the band’s historian and publicist for more thantwenty years, takes readers b

In an engaging book that sweeps from the Gilded Age to the1960s, award-winning author Laura Claridge presents the firstauthoritative biography of Emily Post, who changed the mindset ofmillions of Americans with Etiquette, a perennial bestseller andtouchstone of proper behavior. A daughter of high society and one of Manhattan’s mostsought-after debutantes, Emily Price married financier Edwin Post.It was a hopeful union that ended in scandalous divorce. But thetrauma forced Emily Post to become her own person. After writingnovels for fifteen years, Emily took on a different sort ofproject. When it debuted in 1922, Etiquette represented afifty-year-old woman at her wisest–and a country at its wildest.Claridge addresses the secret of Etiquette’s tremendous success andgives us a panoramic view of the culture from which it took itsshape, as its author meticulously updated her book twice a decadeto keep it consistent with America’s constantly changing sociallandscape. Now, nearly fifty years aft

Amid the aristocratic ranks of the Confederate cavalry, NathanBedford Forrest was untutored, all but unlettered, and regarded asno more than a guerrilla. His tactic was the headlong charge,mounted with such swiftness and ferocity that General Shermancalled him a "devil" who should "be hunted down and killed if itcosts 10,000 lives and bankrupts the treasury." And in a war inwhich officers prided themselves on their decorum, Forresthabitually issued surrender-or-die ultimatums to the enemy andoften intimidated his own superiors. After being in command at thenotorious Fort Pillow Massacre, he went on to haunt the South asthe first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Now this epic figure is restored to human dimensions in anexemplary biography that puts both Forrest's genius and hissavagery into the context of his time, chronicling his rise fromfrontiersman to slave trader, private to lieutenant general,Klansman to -- eventually -- New South businessman and racialmoderate. Unflinching in its analysis

Originally a New Deal liberal and aggressive anticommunist,Senator Eugene McCarthy famously lost faith with the Democraticparty over Vietnam. His stunning challenge to Lyndon Johnson in the1968 New Hampshire primary inspired young liberals and was one ofthe greatest electoral upsets in American history. But the 1968election ultimately brought Richard Nixon and the Republican Partyto power, irrevocably shifting the country’s political landscape tothe right for decades to come. Dominic Sandbrook traces one of the most remarkable andsignificant lives in postwar politics, a career marked by bothcourage and arrogance. Sandbrook draws on extensive new research –including interviews with McCarthy himself – to show convincinglyhow Eugene McCarthy’s political experience embodies the largerdecline of American liberalism after World War II. These weretumultuous times in American politics, and Sandbrook vividlycaptures the drama and historical significance through his intimateportrait of a singularly

Portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the Martin Scorsese movie The Aviator , Howard Hughes is legendary as a playboy andpilot—but he is notorious for what he became: the ultimate mysteryman. Citizen Hughes is the New York Times bestsellingexposé of Hughes’s hidden life, and a stunning revelation of his“megalomaniac empire in the emperor’s own words”( Newsweek ). At the height of his wealth, power, and invisibility, the world’srichest and most secretive man kept what amounted to a diary. Thebillionaire commanded his empire by correspondence, scrawlingthousands of handwritten memos to unseen henchmen. It was the onlytime Howard Hughes risked writing down his orders, plans, thoughts,fears, and desires. Hughes claimed the papers were sosensitive—“the very most confidential, almost sacred information asto my innermost activities”—that not even his most trusted aides orexecutives were allowed to keep the messages he sent them. Butin the early-morning hours of June 5, 1974, unknown burglars s