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Overview This is a 3,600 word illustrated monograph on Famous Cases of the FBI. Some call this series "Cliffs Notes for busy people." In the 1960s, almost half of America’s population was under 18 years of age. This glut of adolescents along with the Vietnamese War set the stage for a unsophisticated effort to revolt against the status quo: sexism, class struggle, and the Vietnam War. On campuses across the country, radicals provoked anger, and the anger boiled over into violence. Martin Luther King, Jr. founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an organization to promote nonviolent protest. However, it grew increasingly radicalized. Some within this group were discontent with the low level of militancy and splintered away to form the Weathermen (later called Weather Underground Organization, WUO). The Weathermen, was one of the most violent, counter-culture groups the FBI encountered duri

Overview “My effort here is to give firsthand testimony on the man and president I saw, ‘with bark off,’ as he used to say when he wanted me to describe a difficult situation cold and true, with no punches pulled.…The Lyndon Johnson I knew was brave and brutal, compassionate and cruel, incredibly intelligent and infuriatingly insensitive, with shrewd and uncanny instinct for the jugular of his allies and adversaries. He could be altruistic and petty, caring and crude, generous and petulant, bluntly honest and calculatingly devious—all within the same few minutes.”—Joseph A. Califano, Jr. Joe Califano—Lyndon Johnson’s closest domestic adviser during the White House years—has created a remarkable presidential portrait, a frank, tough-minded memoir that reveals not only the singular personality of LBJ, but the rough grain of American politics. More than previous biographers, scholars, or reporters, Califano—who worked day and night in the trenches with LBJ—shows us w

Overview Chicago's fabled underworld is famous for its high-profile gangsters such as Al Capone. Not as publicly known, but perhaps even more notorious, are the names of "Mushmouth" Johnson, Jeff Fort and Larry Hanover. These African-American gangsters were every bit as powerful, intriguing and colorful as the Windy City's more famous white gangsters. Now for the first time, journalist Ron Chepesiuk reveals their fascinating stories and that of the many other interesting gangsters from Chicago's black underworld. Product Details ISBN-13: 9781569804094 Publisher: Barricade Books, Incorporated Publication date: 8/29/2007 Sold by: Barnes & Noble Format: eBook Pages: 334 Sales rank: 627.853 File size: 2 MB Meet the Author