"Essays originally appeared in Great lives from history: notorious lives (2007). New material has been added"--t.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Publisher's note -- List of contributors -- Key to pronunciation -- Complete list of contents -- Joe Adonis -- Aldrich Ames -- Albert Anastasia -- Apache Kid -- Marshall Applewhite -- Benedict Arnold -- Joe Ball -- Velma Margie Barfield -- Ma Barker -- Clyde Barrow -- Sam Bass -- Byron de la Beckwith -- Tom Bell -- Bambi Bembenek -- David Berg -- David Berkowitz -- Kenneth Bianchi -- Lou Blonger -- William H. Bonney -- John Wilkes Booth -- Lizzie Borden -- Christopher John Boyce -- Arthur Bremer -- John R. Brinkley -- Curly Bill Brocius -- Louis Buchalter -- Ted Bundy -- Angelo Buono, Jr -- Richard Girnt Butler -- Samuel Joseph Byck -- Al Capone -- Butch Cassidy -- Paul Castellano -- Whittaker Chambers -- Mark David Chapman -- Benjamin Church -- Vincent Coll -- Frank Collin -- Joe Colombo -- B. Cooper -- Frank Costello -- Andrew Cunanan -- Leon Czolgosz -- Jeffrey Dahmer -- Bob Dalton -- Emmett Dalton -- Richard Allen Davis -- Tino de Angelis -- Albert Desalvo -- Legs Diamond -- John Dillinger -- Bill Doolin -- Diane Downs -- John E. Du Pont -- Ira Einhorn -- Billie Sol Estes -- Albert Fish -- Pretty Boy Floyd -- Larry C. Ford -- Martin Frankel -- Antoinette Frank -- Lynette Fromme -- John Wayne Gacy -- Carmine Galante -- Joe Gallo -- Carlo Gambino -- Gilbert Gauthe -- Ed Gein -- Vito Genovese -- Sam Giancana -- Vincent Gigante -- Mildred Gillars -- Gary Gilmore -- John Gotti -- Sammy Gravano -- Charles Julius Guiteau -- Matthew F. Hale -- Robert Philip Hanssen -- John Wesley Hardin -- Jean Harris -- Linda Burfield Hazzard -- George Hennard. Henry Hill -- Susanna Mildred Hill -- Marie Hilley -- John Hinckley, Jr -- Alger Hiss -- Doc Holliday -- H.H. Holmes -- James Oliver Huberty -- Jesse James -- Jim Jones -- Theodore Kaczynski -- Alvin Karpis -- Machine Gun Kelly -- Tom Ketchum -- Sante Kimes -- Richard Kuklinski -- Leonard Lake -- Meyer Lansky -- Richard Lawrence -- Daulton Lee -- Nathan F. Leopold, Jr -- Richard A. Loeb -- Harry Longabaugh -- Bill Longley -- Byron Looper -- Tommy Lucchese -- Lucky Luciano -- Jeffrey Lundgren -- Joseph Mccarthy -- Timothy Mcveigh -- Frederika Mandelbaum -- Charles Manson -- Salvatore Maranzano -- Carlos Marcello -- Joe Masseria -- Robert Jay Mathews -- Tom Metzger -- Bugs Moran -- John Allen Muhammad And Lee Boyd Malvo -- Baby Face Nelson -- Leslie Nelson -- Bonnie Nettles -- Charles Ng -- Terry Nichols -- Dion O'banion -- Lee Harvey Oswald -- Bonnie Parker -- Scott Peterson -- James Porter -- Lewis Powell -- Joseph Profaci -- William Clarke Quantrill -- Dennis Rader -- James Earl Ray -- Johnny Ringo -- George Rivas -- Ethel Rosenberg -- Julius Rosenberg -- Arnold Rothstein -- Darlie Routier -- Eric Rudolph -- Yolanda Saldivar -- Dutch Schultz -- Assata Olugbala Shakur -- Bugsy Siegel -- Sirhan Sirhan -- Pamela Ann Smart -- Susan Smith -- Ruth Snyder -- Richard Speck -- Charles Starkweather -- Belle Starr -- Henry Starr -- J.B. Stoner -- Robert Franklin Stroud -- Willie Sutton -- Michael Swango -- Harry Kendall Thaw -- Tokyo Rose -- Karla Faye Tucker -- Hank Vaughan -- Anastase Vonsiatsky -- Rachel Wall -- Carolyn Warmus -- Joseph Weil -- Carl Weiss -- Hymie Weiss -- Dan White -- Charles Whitman -- James Wilkinson -- Henry Wirz -- Aileen Carol Wuornos -- Andrea Yates -- Cole Younger -- Giuseppe Zangara -- Chronological List -- Web Sites -- Category Index -- Personages Index.
Summary:
Covers 177 of the most infamous assassins, serial killers, frauds, gangsters, murderers, terrorists, thieves, and traitors of American history.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.