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Icons of crime fighting relentless pursuers of justice
Title:
Icons of crime fighting relentless pursuers of justice
Author:
Bumgarner, Jeffrey B.
ISBN:
9781567206739

9780313341298

9780313341304

9780313341311
Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (2 v. (xvii, 670 p.)) : ill.
Series:
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Contents:
vol. 1. Gun fighters : U.S. Marshals of the Old West -- Tusty Zohra and Jeffrey T. Walker -- Allan Pinkerton -- Scott H. Belshaw and Amanda L. Belshaw -- The Texas Rangers -- Ronald Burns -- August Vollmer -- Willard M. Oliver -- J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI -- Kilby Raptopoulos and Jeffrey T. Walker -- Thomas Dewey -- Clarrisa Breen -- Robert Kennedy : the enforcer within -- J. Scott Granberg-Rademacker -- Jim Garrison -- Elvira M. White -- Buford Pusser -- Jacob Rodriguez -- Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso -- Ellen Leichtman -- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein : presidential crime fighters and shapers of American public opinion -- Christopher Larimer.

vol. 2. Francisco Vincent Serpico -- Morris A. Taylor -- Joseph Pistone, AKA "Donnie Brasco" -- John Dombrink -- Vincent T. Bugliosi : justice purist--the prosecutor with a heart -- Edward J. Schauer -- For Adam : the John Walsh story -- Elizabeth Quinn DeValve -- FBI profilers -- Richard N. Kocsis -- Sheriff Joe Arpaio -- Kelli Stevens -- Mark Fuhrman -- Scott H. Belshaw -- Rudolph "Rudy" Giuliani -- Camille Gibson -- Curtis Sliwa : vigilantism, victims' rights, and the guardian angels -- Brion Sever, with Al Gorman and Greg Coram -- Dr. Henry Lee : leading practitioner in forensic criminal investigations -- Janet E. McClellan -- Dr. Bill Bass -- Cecile Van de Voorde.
Abstract:
Provides an overview of the most successful, the most well-known, and the most important crime fighters in recent American history.
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