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Gentry, Curtis Marsena was born on June 13, 1931 in Lamar, Colorado, United States. Son of Curtis Herman and Coral Eloise (McMillin) Gentry.
(One of the most infamous, calculated miscarriages of just...)
One of the most infamous, calculated miscarriages of justice in American history - the Tom Mooney-Warren Billings case told in full for the first time.
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(The most famous of the "lost mines" The Lost Dutchman, ha...)
The most famous of the "lost mines" The Lost Dutchman, has many stories and legends. This is the story of the last great attempt to discover it's location. On April 29, 1966, 6 men announced they had found the mine. This is their story.
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( "The cumulative effect is overwhelming. Eleanor Rooseve...)
"The cumulative effect is overwhelming. Eleanor Roosevelt was right: Hoover’s FBI was an American gestapo."―Newsweek Shocking, grim, frightening, Curt Gentry’s masterful portrait of America’s top policeman is a unique political biography. From more than 300 interviews and over 100,000 pages of previously classified documents, Gentry reveals exactly how a paranoid director created the fraudulent myth of an invincible, incorruptible FBI. For almost fifty years, Hoover held virtually unchecked public power, manipulating every president from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Richard Nixon. He kept extensive blackmail files and used illegal wiretaps and hidden microphones to destroy anyone who opposed him. The book reveals how Hoover helped create McCarthyism, blackmailed the Kennedy brothers, and influenced the Supreme Court; how he retarded the civil rights movement and forged connections with mobsters; and what part he played in the investigations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. 32 pages of photographs
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(CRUEL DOUBT: When Bonnie Von Stein climbed into bed besid...)
CRUEL DOUBT: When Bonnie Von Stein climbed into bed beside her sleeping husband one hot summer night in 1988, it was the last time she was to see him alive. The next thing she knew, he was being bludgeoned to death by an intruder and she was fighting for her life. But Bonnie's nightmare had only begun. For as police investigated her husband's murder she had to face the possibility that someone very close to her might have been involved in the brutal killing. NO MINOR CHORDS-MY DAYS IN HOLLYWOOD by Andre' Previn - Andre' Previn was a tender lad of sixteen when he went to work as a music arranger at MGM studios. It was the golden age of musicals, and in Hollywood the young man found "all the tawdry glamour I longed for." Jane Powell listened attentively to his variations on "Three Blind Mice"; Fred Astaire danced to his music; Red Skelton played the piano for him without touching the keys. And then there was the time that Lassie - But let Previn tell the rest. After all, he loves telling stories almost as much as he loves music. J. EDGAR HOOVER-THE MAN AND THE SECRETS For almost fifty years, J. Edgar Hoover was America's top cop. As director of the FBI, he was hailed for his zeal in catching killers, kidnappers, spies, and other "public enemies." But along the way, he acquired vast political powers, which went unchecked until the day he died. Thanks to Hoover's extensive secret files, no President dared fire him and no Congressman dared criticize him. LEARNING TO PLAY GOD-THE COMING OF AGE OF A YOUNG DOCTOR: For Bob Marion, becoming a doctor was the dream of a lifetime. Marion was an idealist. He wanted to help people. But achieving his dream with his ideals intact proved far more difficult than he had imagined. During his hospital training Marion found himself making life-and-death decisions while exhausted, ill prepared, and often just plain terrified. He also found himself growing insensitive to the very people he wanted most to help.
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(Per DJ description: The amazing story of this great geniu...)
Per DJ description: The amazing story of this great genius-whose inventions armed the forces of the United States during two world wars and equipped the huntsmen of three generations.......
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(1987, hardcover printing (of a book first published in 19...)
1987, hardcover printing (of a book first published in 1964), Browning, 323 pages. 81 illustrations of Browning weaponry in all, extensive b&w vintage photos throughout. John M. Browning (1855-1926), often called the "greatest firearms inventor the world has ever known," registered 128 patents on more than 80 firearms.
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(The amazing story of the great genius whose inventions ar...)
The amazing story of the great genius whose inventions armed the forces of the United States during two world wars and equipped the huntsmen of three generations. Generally known as the inventory of the automatic rifle, pistol and shotgun, and the machine gun, Browning registered 128 patents on more than eighty separate and distinct firearms, including many of the famous models produced by Winchester, colt, Remington, Savage, and Belgium's Fabrique Nationale. This is his story and the story of his guns.
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( The #1 True Crime Bestseller of All Time―7 Million Copi...)
The #1 True Crime Bestseller of All Time―7 Million Copies Sold In the summer of 1969, in Los Angeles, a series of brutal, seemingly random murders captured headlines across America. A famous actress (and her unborn child), an heiress to a coffee fortune, a supermarket owner and his wife were among the seven victims. A thin trail of circumstances eventually tied the Tate-LeBianca murders to Charles Manson, a would-be pop singer of small talent living in the desert with his "family" of devoted young women and men. What was his hold over them? And what was the motivation behind such savagery? In the public imagination, over time, the case assumed the proportions of myth. The murders marked the end of the sixties and became an immediate symbol of the dark underside of that era. Vincent Bugliosi was the prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, and this book is his enthralling account of how he built his case from what a defense attorney dismissed as only "two fingerprints and Vince Bugliosi." The meticulous detective work with which the story begins, the prosecutor's view of a complex murder trial, the reconstruction of the philosophy Manson inculcated in his fervent followers... these elements make for a true crime classic. ?Helter Skelter ?is not merely a spellbinding murder case and courtroom drama but also, in the words of ?The New Republic?, a "social document of rare importance." 50 pages of black-and-white photographs
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("Kind of Loving" You have seen the Toni Lee Scott story o...)
"Kind of Loving" You have seen the Toni Lee Scott story on "This is your Life" and you have watched her on Johnny Carson, Steve Allen, Mike Douglas, and Tennessee Ernie Ford shows. She is considered one of the most exciting, lovely and inspiring performers of our time. "Somebody up there must like Toni Lee Scott otherwise how could she have survived" wrote the San Francisco chronicle. Millions have read or heard her story---of how she overcame repeated tragic accidents in order to reach her goals. The United Cerebral Palsy Association named her "Entertainer of the Year" The Heart Association named her "Woman of the Year" Toni Lee Scott is a walking, living miracle. She doesn't simply speak of faith and courage, she proves it. The lessons that Toni Lee imparts to her readers can be used by anyone. Most important of all, Toni Lee Scott does more than inspire or entertain. She teaches and she educates. She shows her readers how to find within themselves the strength and the power and the love that Toni Lee Scott uses every day of her life. . .a kind of loving.
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Gentry, Curtis Marsena was born on June 13, 1931 in Lamar, Colorado, United States. Son of Curtis Herman and Coral Eloise (McMillin) Gentry.
Student, University Colorado, l949-50;Bachelor, San Francisco State University, l957.
Sports writer, Lamar (Colorado) Daily News, l947-49;Boulder correspondent, Denver Post, l949-50;salesman, Paul Elder, Books, San Francisco, l954-57;manager, Tro Harper, Books, San Francisco, l957-62;book reviewer, San Francisco Chronicle, l957-65.
(Per DJ description: The amazing story of this great geniu...)
( The #1 True Crime Bestseller of All Time―7 Million Copi...)
("Kind of Loving" You have seen the Toni Lee Scott story o...)
(The amazing story of the great genius whose inventions ar...)
(CRUEL DOUBT: When Bonnie Von Stein climbed into bed besid...)
(One of the most infamous, calculated miscarriages of just...)
(The most famous of the "lost mines" The Lost Dutchman, ha...)
(1987, hardcover printing (of a book first published in 19...)
(Frame-Up: The Incredible Case Of Tom Mooney And Warren Bi...)
( "The cumulative effect is overwhelming. Eleanor Rooseve...)
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Author numerous books, since 1962, including The Madams of San Francisco, 1964, The Vulnerable Americans, 1966, Frame-Up: The Incredible Case of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, 1967 (Mystery Writer's award 1968), The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California, 1968, The Killer Mountains, 1968, J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets, 1991 (Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Nonfiction award 1992). Co-author: Jade: Stone of Heaven, 1962, John M. Browning: American Gunmaker, 1964, A Kind of Loving, 1970, Operation Overflight, 1970, Second in Command, 1971, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders, 1974 (Edgar Allen Poe award Mystery Writers American 1975).
With United States Air Force, l950-54, Korea. Member Authors Guild American, American Civil Liberties Union, E Clampus Vitus (Jackson, California).
Married Laura Wilson Spence, October 30, l954 (deceased l975). Married Gail Stevens, June 13, 1976 (divorced 1982).