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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Confessions, Trials, and Biographical Sketches of the Most Cold Blooded Murderers who Have Been Executed in this Country from Its First Settlement Down to the Present Time
Author: Confessions, Trials, and Biographical Sketches of the Most Cold Blooded Murderers, Who Have Been Executed in This Country From Its First Settlement Down to the Present Time
Author: George N. ThomsonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334207440
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Excerpt from Confessions, Trials, and Biographical Sketches of the Most Cold Blooded Murderers, Who Have Been Executed in This Country From Its First Settlement Down to the Present Time: Compiled Entirely From the Most Authentic Sources; Containing Also, Accounts of Various Other Daring Outrages Committed in This and Other Countries Our publicatiorp is to the moral what the surgeon's is to the physical man. Details of horrid and unnatural crime cannot be contemplated with composure but the avidity manifested by the public mind, for the perusal, argues - however paradoxical it may seem - eu universal interest in such recitals. This feeling was implanted by providence in the mind of man for a great and good end - and as far as our imperfect perceptions may attempt to penetrate the veil which con ceals Hts designs, we are justified in supposing that that end is the enforcement and wider utility of example. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Confessions, Trials, and Biographical Sketches of the Most Cold Blooded Murderers who Have Been Executed in this Country from Its First Settlement Down to the Present Time
Author: Confessions, Trials, and Biographical Sketches of the Most Cold Blooded Murderers, who Have Been Executed in this Country from Its First Settlement Down to the Present Time
Author: Confessions, Trials, and Biographical Sketches of the Most Cold Blooded Murderers, who Have Been Executed in this Country from Its First Settlement Down to the Present Time
Author: Confessions, Trials, and Biographical Sketches of the Most Cold Blooded Murderers, who Have Been Executed in this Country from Its First Settlement Down to the Present Time ...
Author: George N. ThomsonPublisher:
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Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Confessions, Trials, and Biographical Sketches of the Most Cold Blooded Murderers, Who Have Been Executed in this Country from Its First Settlement Down to the Present Time
Author: ThompsonA Republic of Scoundrels
Author: David HeadPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639364080
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
The Founding Fathers are often revered as American saints; here are the stories of those Founders who were schemers and scoundrels, vying for their own interests ahead of the nation’s. We now have a clear-eyed understanding of Founding Fathers such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton; even so, they are often considered American saints, revered for their wisdom and self-sacrificing service to the nation. However, within the Founding Generation lurked many unscrupulous figures—men who violated the era’s expectation of public virtue and advanced their own interests at the expense of others. They were turncoats and traitors, opportunists and con artists, spies, and foreign intriguers. Some of their names are well known: Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr. Others are less notorious now but were no less threatening. There was Charles Lee, the Continental Army general who offered to tell the British how to defeat the Americans, and James Wilkinson, who served fifteen years as a commanding general in the US Army, despite rumors that he spied for Spain and conspired with traitors. The early years of the republic were full of self-interested individuals, sometimes succeeding in their plots, sometimes failing, but always shaping the young nation. A Republic of Scoundrels seeks to re-examine the Founding Generation and replace the hagiography of the Founding Fathers with something more realistic: a picture that embraces the many facets of our nation’s origins.
Murder & Mayhem in Essex County
Author: Robert WilhelmPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614234310
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
“The importance of the area to early America . . . make the book a must-read for anyone interested in the dark side of New England history” (Early American Crime). The idea of a criminal record originated in the early seventeenth century when the magistrates of the Massachusetts Bay Colony began recording dates, places, victims and criminals. Despite, or perhaps because of, the strict code of the Puritans, some early settlers earned quite the rap sheet that landed them either in the stocks or at the end of a noose. With biting wit and an eye for the macabre, local author Robert Wilhelm traces the first documented cases of murder and mayhem in Essex County, Massachusetts. Discover the story of Hannah Duston’s revenge on her Abenaki Indian captors, why the witchcraft hysteria hung over Salem and Andover and how Rachel Wall made her living as a pirate. Decide for yourself whether the accused are guilty or if history lends itself to something else entirely. Includes photos!
Dictionary of Books, relating to America, From its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752521201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
