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Book The Big Hat Law

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Lindsey
  • Publisher : Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780980089745
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Big Hat Law written by Michael Lindsey and published by Butler Center for Arkansas Studies. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A colorful history of law enforcement in Arkansas full of unpredictable events..."-- Back cover.

Book Digest

Download or read book Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rise of the Warrior Cop

Download or read book Rise of the Warrior Cop written by Radley Balko and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking history of how American police forces have been militarized is now revised and updated. Newly added material brings the story through 2020, including analysis of the Ferguson protests, the Obama and Trump administrations, and the George Floyd protests. The last days of colonialism taught America’s revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny. As a result, our country has generally worked to keep the military out of law enforcement. But over the last two centuries, America’s cops have increasingly come to resemble ground troops. The consequences have been dire: the home is no longer a place of sanctuary, the Fourth Amendment has been gutted, and police today have been conditioned to see the citizens they serve as enemies. In Rise of the Warrior Cop, Balko shows how politicians’ ill-considered policies and relentless declarations of war against vague enemies like crime, drugs, and terror have blurred the distinction between cop and soldier. His fascinating, frightening narrative that spans from America’s earliest days through today shows how a creeping battlefield mentality has isolated and alienated American police officers and put them on a collision course with the values of a free society.

Book The Chautauquan

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1896
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 818 pages

Download or read book The Chautauquan written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Elocutionist s Journal

Download or read book The Elocutionist s Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Big Trouble

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  • Author : J. Anthony Lukas
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-07-17
  • ISBN : 1439128103
  • Pages : 884 pages

Download or read book Big Trouble written by J. Anthony Lukas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as "toweringly important" (Baltimore Sun), "a work of scrupulous and significant reportage" (E. L. Doctorow), and "an unforgettable historical drama" (Chicago Sun-Times), Big Trouble brings to life the astonishing case that ultimately engaged President Theodore Roosevelt, Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the politics and passions of an entire nation at century's turn. After Idaho's former governor is blown up by a bomb at his garden gate at Christmastime 1905, America's most celebrated detective, Pinkerton James McParland, takes over the investigation. His daringly executed plan to kidnap the radical union leader "Big Bill" Haywood from Colorado to stand trial in Idaho sets the stage for a memorable courtroom confrontation between the flamboyant prosecutor, progressive senator William Borah, and the young defender of the dispossessed, Clarence Darrow. Big Trouble captures the tumultuous first decade of the twentieth century, when capital and labor, particularly in the raw, acquisitive West, were pitted against each other in something close to class war. Lukas paints a vivid portrait of a time and place in which actress Ethel Barrymore, baseball phenom Walter Johnson, and editor William Allen White jostled with railroad magnate E. H. Harriman, socialist Eugene V. Debs, gunslinger Charlie Siringo, and Operative 21, the intrepid Pinkerton agent who infiltrated Darrow's defense team. This is a grand narrative of the United States as it charged, full of hope and trepidation, into the twentieth century.

Book Suspect

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  • Author : Scott Turow
  • Publisher : Swift Press
  • Release : 2022-09-20
  • ISBN : 1800751699
  • Pages : 453 pages

Download or read book Suspect written by Scott Turow and published by Swift Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Times, Express and Daily Mail Book of the Year 2022 The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent returns with a riveting legal thriller in which a reckless private detective is embroiled in a fraught police scandal Lucia Gomez is a female police chief in a man's world and she's walked a fine line to succeed at the top. Now a trio of police officers in Kindle County have accused her of soliciting sex for promotions and she's in deep. Rik Dudek is an attorney and old friend of Lucia's. He's the only one she can trust, but he's never had a headline criminal case. This ugly smear campaign is already breaking the internet and will be his biggest challenge yet. Clarice 'Pinky' Granum is a fearless PI who plays by her own rules. Her 4-D imagination is her biggest asset when it comes to digging up dirt for Rik but not all locks are best picked. It's cops against cops in this hive of lies. And it will take more than honeyed words from the defence to change the punchline and save the Chief from her own cell.

Book Death Wears a Big Hat

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  • Author : Dan Rempala
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2009-07-20
  • ISBN : 0557073030
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book Death Wears a Big Hat written by Dan Rempala and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here it is: the long awaited sequel to the cult-classic Bodies. Travel with the motleyest crew of reluctant companions the fictional world described by this book has ever seen. There's Gilbert, a bigoted former knight and idiot savant of swordplay, Carmelita, the sultry, seductive elf wench, Zappa, the world's most effeminate male dragon, and many, many more. They must save the world from destruction at the hands of a raging mega-demon by reassembling the Ring of Serpentium, the one item capable to stopping the demon's rampage across the known world.Death Wears a Big Hat picks up where Bodies left off and is nothing less than a full-throttle sleigh ride to the summit of Mount Excitement!

Book My Extraordinary Pretty CEO

Download or read book My Extraordinary Pretty CEO written by Xi XiangShaoNian and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 1218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that I would actually send a colourful joke to my immediate superior! What's more, I didn't expect her to set her eyes on me!

Book The Chautauquan

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  • Author : Theodore L. Flood
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1896
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 832 pages

Download or read book The Chautauquan written by Theodore L. Flood and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Education of Little Tree

Download or read book The Education of Little Tree written by Forrest Carter and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells of a Cherokee boyhood in the 1930's.

Book Milo s Hat Trick

Download or read book Milo s Hat Trick written by Jon Agee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milo the Magnificent's magic act isn't so magnificent after all, until he meets a bear who teaches him the secret to the perfect hat trick in this classic and critically acclaimed picture book, perfect for fans of Oliver Jeffers and Jon Klassen Milo the Magnificent is the world’s least magnificent magician. He can't even pull a rabbit out of his hat! When Mr. Popovich gives him one more chance, Milo knows he has no choice: he has to go out and catch a rabbit for his act. Instead, he catches a bear. And the bear promises to help! Into the hat he dives. Milo rides the train home, sure his act will go off perfectly tonight. But when he arrives in his dressing room, he discovers that he left his hat—and the bear!—on the train. Meanwhile, across town, a man in a restaurant has a very familiar hat . . . Can Milo get his hat back in time for his act?

Book Eckhardt

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  • Author : Gary Keith
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2007-12-01
  • ISBN : 0292716915
  • Pages : 437 pages

Download or read book Eckhardt written by Gary Keith and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned for his "brilliant legislative mind" and political oratory—as well as for bicycling to Congress in a rumpled white linen suit and bow tie—U.S. Congressman Bob Eckhardt was a force to reckon with in Texas and national politics from the 1940s until 1980. A liberal Democrat who successfully championed progressive causes, from workers' rights to consumer protection to environmental preservation and energy conservation, Eckhardt won the respect of opponents as well as allies. Columnist Jack Anderson praised him as one of the most effective members of Congress, where Eckhardt was a national leader and mentor to younger congressmen such as Al Gore. In this biography of Robert Christian Eckhardt (1913-2001), Gary A. Keith tells the story of Eckhardt's colorful life and career within the context of the changing political landscape of Texas and the rise of the New Right and the two-party state. He begins with Eckhardt's German-American family heritage and then traces his progression from labor lawyer, political organizer, and cofounder of the progressive Texas Observer magazine to Texas state legislator and U.S. congressman. Keith describes many of Eckhardt's legislative battles and victories, including the passage of the Open Beaches Act and the creation of the Big Thicket National Preserve, the struggle to limit presidential war-making ability through the War Powers Act, and the hard fight to shape President Carter's energy policy, as well as Eckhardt's work in Texas to tax the oil and gas industry. The only thorough recounting of the life of a memorable, important, and flamboyant man, Eckhardt also recalls the last great era of progressive politics in the twentieth century and the key players who strove to make Texas and the United States a more just, inclusive society.

Book The Literary Digest

Download or read book The Literary Digest written by Edward Jewitt Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Shoppers    Paradise

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  • Author : Emily Remus
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2019-04-15
  • ISBN : 0674240316
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book A Shoppers Paradise written by Emily Remus and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How women in turn-of-the-century Chicago used their consumer power to challenge male domination of public spaces and stake their own claim to downtown. Popular culture assumes that women are born to shop and that cities welcome their trade. But for a long time America’s downtowns were hardly welcoming to women. Emily Remus turns to Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century to chronicle a largely unheralded revolution in women’s rights that took place not at the ballot box but in the streets and stores of the business district. After the city’s Great Fire, Chicago’s downtown rose like a phoenix to become a center of urban capitalism. Moneyed women explored the newly built department stores, theaters, and restaurants that invited their patronage and encouraged them to indulge their fancies. Yet their presence and purchasing power were not universally appreciated. City officials, clergymen, and influential industrialists condemned these women’s conspicuous new habits as they took their place on crowded streets in a business district once dominated by men. A Shoppers’ Paradise reveals crucial points of conflict as consuming women accessed the city center: the nature of urban commerce, the place of women, the morality of consumer pleasure. The social, economic, and legal clashes that ensued, and their outcome, reshaped the downtown environment for everyone and established women’s new rights to consumption, mobility, and freedom.

Book The Big Sleep

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  • Author : Raymond Chandler
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-08-16
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book The Big Sleep written by Raymond Chandler and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book The Hatpin Menace

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kerry Segrave
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2016-03-01
  • ISBN : 1476662150
  • Pages : 221 pages

Download or read book The Hatpin Menace written by Kerry Segrave and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1887 and 1920, the humble hatpin went from an unremarkable item in every woman's wardrobe, to a fashion necessity, to a dangerous weapon (it was said). Big hair and big hats of the era meant big hatpins, and their weaponized use sparked controversy. There were "good" uses of hatpins, such as fending off an attacker in the street. There were also "bad" uses, such as when a woman being arrested tried to stab a police officer. But seriously: All those protruding pins seemed to threaten people everywhere in the public sphere. It did not sit well with the patriarchy, who responded with hysterical crusades and often ludicrous legislation aimed at curbing the hatpin and disarming American women.