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8 best books like The Good Rat (Jimmy Breslin): Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right, The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece, The Devil and Sonny Liston, Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, King of the Godfathers, The Freemasons: A History of the World's Most Powerful Secret Society, Clockers, Double Deal: The Inside Story of Murder, Unbridled Corruption, and the Cop Who Was a Mobster

Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right
AuthorAl Franken
ISBN0452285216
Al Franken, one of our savviest satirists (People), has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of slander, bias, and even treason. He has examined the Bush administration's policies of squandering our surplus, ravaging the environment, and alienating the rest of the...
The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
AuthorEdward Dolnick
ISBN0060531177
The little-known world of art theft is compellingly portrayed in Dolnick's account of the 1994 theft and recovery of Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.

In the predawn gloom of a February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo. They snatched one of the world's...
The Devil and Sonny Liston
AuthorNick Tosches
ISBN0316897469
An interesting book, but not one I'd want to duplicate.

Tosches is clearly a skilled writer, and this book is full of good, muscular prose. The scope of the book is impressive, as is the thoroughness of research. Tosches covers a lot of ground—quite admirably, in fact—and is quite dexterous...
Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series
AuthorDavid Pietrusza
ISBN0786712503
History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld genius. The real-life model for The Great Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Rothstein was much more—and less—than a fixer of baseball games. He was everything that made...
King of the Godfathers
AuthorAnthony M. DeStefano
ISBN0806528745
The Last Of The Old-World Mob Bosses--And The Ultimate Betrayal

For more than twenty years, Joseph "Big Joey" Massino ran what was called the largest criminal network in the U.S., employing over two hundred and fifty made men and untold numbers of associates. The Bonanno family was responsible...
The Freemasons: A History of the World's Most Powerful Secret Society
AuthorJasper Ridley
ISBN1559706546
For many centuries, since their founding as a guild comprising the master builders of the great castles and cathedrals of the Middle Ages, the freemasons have enjoyed a dual reputation: powerful-often munificent-rulers, politicians, and artists whose works have enhanced our world; and members...
Clockers
AuthorRichard Price
ISBN0747562733
Novelist and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Richard Price's bestselling second novel offers "an unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair" (USA Today) At once an intense mystery and a revealing study of two men, a veteran homicide detective and an innercity crack dealer,...
Double Deal: The Inside Story of Murder, Unbridled Corruption, and the Cop Who Was a Mobster
AuthorMichael Corbitt
ISBN0061030481
An expose of organised crime and its unholy alliance with world leaders, intelligence agencies, and law enforcement, Double Deal is a 40–year saga told with unflinching honesty by mob insider and former Chicago chief of police Michael Corbitt.

Growing up poor and angry, Michael Corbitt...
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