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"No praise can be too high for Russell's mastery "—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A bestselling author and a leading expert on the JFK assassination, Dick Russell (The Man Who Knew Too Much) here compiles a fascinating selection of his latest research into the assassination of our thirty-fifth president. These pieces cover every aspect of the JFK assassination, from the shots, to the subsequent investigation, to the Warren Report. Russell's research analyzes newly declassified information and continues to build upon his painstakingly detailed investigations. His unrivalled scholarship has created one of the most comprehensive and authoritative examinations of the assassination to date. Russell has come closer than ever to solving the ultimate question: Who killed JFK?.
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In 1859, Bernhard Riemann, a little-known thirty-two year old mathematician, made a hypothesis while presenting a paper to the Berlin Academy titled "On the Number of Prime Numbers Less Than a Given Quantity " Today, after 150 years of careful research and exhaustive study, the Riemann Hyphothesis remains unsolved, with a one-million-dollar prize earmarked for the first person to conquer it.

Alternating passages of extraordinarily lucid mathematical exposition with chapters of elegantly composed biography and history, Prime Obsession is a fascinating and fluent account of an epic mathematical mystery that continues to challenge and excite the world..
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"A lively tour through our past and an ingenious primer in the art of historical detection." —Robert A. Gross, author of The Minutemen and Their World

Did Leif Ericsson beat Columbus to America? What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke? Did Pocahontas really save John Smith? Did Davy Crockett die at the Alamo? What really happened to Amelia Earhart, and was she a spy? Who killed JFK?

Unsolved Mysteries of American History re-creates the most mystifying events of our past, following some of our greatest historians as they search for the elusive answers. Spanning more than five centuries—from Leif Ericsson and Columbus through Watergate and Iran-Contra—Aron makes sense of all the latest discoveries and speculations. Here is everything you could ever want from a detective story: dramatic twists and turns, intellectual challenges, frustrating dead-ends, murderous mayhem, and thrilling espionage.

"Stimulating and pleasurable, fair and objective . . . recommended for both the history buff and the fan of true-life mysteries."—Kirkus Reviews

"Everyone loves a mystery and a history mystery best of all. Aron has assembled an impressive array of 'whodunits.'" —Ivor Noel Hume, former director, Department of Archaeology, Colonial Williamsburg author of The Virginia Adventure

"A welcome gateway for historical exploration." —Booklist

"Aron performs something of a minor miracle: He zeroes in on the very core of historical mysteries and provides new insights for reconsidering mystifying events." —Allan W. Eckert, author of Sorrow in Our Heart .
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Investigative journalist James Renner cracks open thirteen of Northeast Ohio s most intriguing unsolved crimes. Included are the 1964 murder of Garfield Heights teen Beverly Jarosz that still haunts baby boomers to this day; the 2003 disappearance of Georgina DeJesus almost exactly one year from the vanishing of Amanda Berry on the same street corner; and the mysterious suicide (or murder) of Joseph Kupchik, who secretly had a gambling problem. Renner uncovers new clues and theories that shed light onto cases Northeast Ohioans have never forgotten. Readers are taken to seedy Northeast Ohio strip clubs and darkened parking decks, and also to upscale suburbs and cozy towns where some of the most horrendous tragedies occurred..
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Is Social Security really going bust, and what does that mean to me? If I hire an immigrant, am I hurting a native-born worker? How much can presidents really affect economic outcomes? Why does the stock market go up when employment declines? What's a "living wage?" Why do I feel so squeezed?

If you'd like to know the answers to these questions, premier economist Jared Bernstein is here to help. In Crunch he answers these as well as dozens of others he has fielded from working Americans by email, on blogs, and at events where he speaks. Chances are if there's a stumper you've always wanted to ask an economist, it's solved in this book..
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In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home. Mary Meyer was a secret mistress of President John F. Kennedy, whom she had known since private school days, and after her death, reports that she had kept a diary set off a tense search by her brother-in-law, newsman Ben Bradlee, and CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton. But the only suspect in her murder was acquitted, and today her life and death are still a source of intense speculation, as Nina Burleigh reveals in her widely praised book, the first to examine this haunting story..
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This compelling volume presents thirty-five of the most intriguing crime cases that still defy solution, as reported by leading authors and journalists in the field of crime writing. Expanded and updated, this new edition of The Mammoth Book of Unsolved Crime includes such recent cases as British backpacker Peter Falconio, lost in the Australian outback, and reporting as diverse as Colin Wilson's look at the Zodiac Killer of California and Russell Miller's examination of the ongoing obsession with LA's Black Dahlia Killer, to Sydney Horley on the woman who was cleared of murdering her husband and went on to become a Broadway star, and Philip Sugden on that most mythic criminal enigma of them all, Jack the Ripper.

Nearly all the cases involve one or more acts of murder, and all are left with a question mark hanging over them—real-life whodunits that offer a continuing challenge to all who find fascination in the criminal mind..
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"You can''t see me, but I''m here," This non-fiction account, is a fascinating look into the world of the paranormal as seen through the eyes of the author. Having investigated and experienced the wrath of the spirit who calls himself "Michael," I was able to understand, with an open mind, what the world of spirits, is truly about. Being on the front lines with an unseen force that has the ability to hurl objects through the air at people, with the accuracy of today''s most precisely guided missiles, would fascinate even the most hardened skeptics and paranormal investigators. The experiences that I had at the Mcwethy home, can only be described as "INCREDIBLE." This once skeptic turned believer still cannot fathom the powers of the spirit world, but certainly do believe in them. The book takes you on a play by play account of the paranormal activity as it unfolds, gives the reactions of those who were present, and finally, culminates into a theory of what I, the author believes is the reason why the unseen entity has chosen to haunt the Mcwethy family. This experience has been the catalyst to a life forever changed..
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On June 5th, 1968, at L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel, Robert F. Kennedy celebrated his victory in the California Democratic primary with a rousing victory speech anticipating a successful run for the presidency. Moments later, gunshots shattered that dream: like his brother before him, Bobby Kennedy lay mortally wounded at the hand of an assassin. The police quickly apprehended Sirhan Sirhan, who the world believed had single-handedly masterminded the shooting. Shockingly, that may not be so, as documentary filmmaker Shane O' Sullivan presents powerful new evidence to the contrary.
In Who Killed Bobby? O'Sullivan makes a stunning case that will fundamentally alter the way the public views Bobby Kennedy's death. Based on research he undertook for a documentary that will debut this year, O'Sullivan poses such key questions as:
"Could Sirhan have fired the fatal shot?" After the autopsy LA County Coroner Thomas Noguchi concluded that the deadly shots had been fired from an inch behind Kennedy's right ear; yet not a single witness placed Sirhan this close; most placed his gun several feet away, and in front of the senator.

Who was the girl in the polka-dot dress? Vincent Di Pierro saw Sirhan with a girl in a polka-dot dress in the pantry. And Sandra Serrano described a similar woman fleeing down a fire escape, exclaiming, "We shot him! We shot him!" O'Sullivan presents new interviews with these key witnesses and details how the LAPD browbeat them into changing their stories, while investigators also insisted to the press that "no such person ever existed."
Was Sirhan an unwitting assassin operating under the direction of unseen manipulators? Sirhan repeatedly scrawled "RFK Must Die" in his notebook and recreated the same kind of automatic writing when later hypnotized by his defense team. O'Sullivan cites psychiatric evidence that Sirhan was an extremely susceptible hypnotic subject, whose behavior on the night of the shooting fit the profile of a programmed assassin. Was Sirhan programmed to be a decoy for the real killer of Bobby Kennedy?

The recent release of the film Bobby, the 40th anniversary of the shooting, and O'Sullivan's upcoming documentary have created renewed interest in the subject, and readers who accepted the conventional wisdom will have their beliefs shaken..
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