Mike Dash, Author . Crown $25 (381p) ISBN 978-0-609-60766-4
Dash's sociology of the paranormal (Borderlands) and of obsession in Holland (Tulipomania) prepared him nicely for this telling of a 17th-century ship loaded with Dutchmen, treasure and fanaticism. In 1629 the Batavia, a 160-foot merchant ship...
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Mike Dash, Author . Crown $24.95 (449p) ISBN 978-1-4000-5471-8
The sole police officer to be executed in U.S. history, NYPD lieutenant Charles Becker died in the electric chair in 1915 for the murder of a lowlife gambler who pimped his own wife. Set apart from other, mostly Irish, New York policemen by his...
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Mike Dash, Author . Random $27 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6722-0
Decades before the Five Families emerged and more than half a century before Mario Puzo wrote The Godfather
, Giuseppe Morello and his family controlled all manner of crime in New York City. Bestselling historian Dash (Satan's Circus
;...
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Mike Dash, Author Crown Publishers $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-609-60439-7
The centerpiece of this story is a stunning two months, December 1636 and January 1637, when fortunes were made and lost in the Netherlands--in tulip bulb futures trading. Stripped to its basics, this would be a dry case study in an economics...
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