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Gus Russo

    Gus Russo is een gevierd onderzoeksjournalist wiens werk diep ingaat op de complexe en vaak verborgen aspecten van de Amerikaanse geschiedenis en georganiseerde misdaad. Door middel van meedogenloos onderzoek en meeslepende verhalen, belicht Russo de schimmige hoeken van de macht, van politieke intriges en moordaanslagen tot de invloed van de onderwereld op de vorming van het moderne Amerika. Zijn stijl kenmerkt zich door nauwgezette documentatie en een talent voor het portretteren van ingewikkelde figuren en gebeurtenissen met opmerkelijke diepgang, en biedt lezers een aangrijpend inzicht in de verborgen krachten die de geschiedenis hebben gevormd.

    Gus Russo
    The Outfit
    Where Were You?: America Remembers the JFK Assassination
    The Outfit
    Gangsters and Goodfellas
    Best of Enemies
    Live by the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK
    • "Humiliated at the Bay of Pigs, John and Robert Kennedy sought desperately to eliminate Castro. Their strategies for overthrowing the Cuban leader were so elaborate and bizarre, they could only engender paranoia. Castro openly threatened to retaliate.Pro-Castro agitator Lee Harvey Oswald learned that Robert Kennedy was personally supervising groups plotting against the Cuban leader. Filled with rage and a sense of destiny, Oswald went to the Cuban embassy in Mexico, announcing he would kill America’s president in exchange for sanctuary in Havana. Live By the Sword forces the conclusion that members of the Cuban regime accepted the troubled American’s offer. Russo shows that Oswald was indeed JFK’s lone assailant, but that after the president’s murder, a devastated Robert Kennedy and key officials launched a comprehensive coverup to hide its true causes.Gus Russo, based in Baltimore, Maryland, has reported for acclaimed ABC and PBS documentaries on JFK, and done research for authors Gerald Posner, Seymour Hersh, and Anthony Summers. Exhaustively researched, Live by the Sword ends 35 years of public mistrust and confusion over the Kennedy assassination."

      Live by the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK
    • Best of Enemies

      • 369bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen
      4,0(226)Tarief

      "The story of two Cold War spies - CIA agent Jack Platt and KGB agent Genya Vasilenko - and their improbable friendship at a time when they should have been anything but."--Provided by publisher.

      Best of Enemies
    • Gangsters and Goodfellas

      Wiseguys... and Life on the Run

      In 1980, my life as a 'Goodfella' came to an end...I traded my Brioni and Armani suits for T-shirts and jeans. I became a normal citizen. I became Joe Schmoe,' says Henry Hill, author of GANGSTERS AND GOODFELLAS and subject of WISEGUY, which was the inspiration for the blockbuster film GOODFELLAS.After a quarter of a century of silence, Hill can finally tell us the rest of the story, Gangsters and Goodfellas picks up where Wiseguy left off, taking readers on the crazy ride of Henry's life - hiding out in the Witness Protection Programme, doing prison time for drug charges, testifying in high-profile, heavily guarded mafia trials, leaving his wife and children and eventually ending up in the entertainment business. Including an exclusive selection of photographs from Henry's personal collection, Gangsters and Goodfellas also reveals Henry's lifelong struggle with addiction, his 'business' relationships that have ranged from mob bosses to movie producers and how, through everything, he survived: ' Its been a hell of a journey, and if I hadn't lived it myself, I would never believe it. I survived the mob. I survived the government, now I'm trying to survive Hollywood.

      Gangsters and Goodfellas
    • The Outfit

      The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America

      • 496bladzijden
      • 18 uur lezen
      The Outfit
    • Set against the backdrop of November 22, 1963, the narrative captures the immediate reactions of various individuals as they learned about President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Through personal anecdotes and evocative archival images, it explores how this tragic event altered the course of American history. Tom Brokaw's interviews with those affected, including politicians and cultural figures, provide a poignant reflection on the nation's grief and the profound questions about what could have been. This volume offers a unique perspective on a defining moment in history.

      Where Were You?: America Remembers the JFK Assassination
    • Presents the story of the great Chicago crime family called The Outfit.

      The Outfit
    • Nejlepší nepřátelé

      • 352bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen
      4,6(5)Tarief

      Studená válka, Washington, D.C. Jack „Kovboj“ Platt a Genadij Vasilenko. Agent CIA proti agentovi KGB. Na první pohled jsou oba nesmiřitelní a tvrdí, na druhou stranu mají v sobě něco, co je spojuje. Jsou v pravém smyslu rebely uvnitř svých špionážních agentur. To je první krůček k tomu, aby navázali nanejvýš nepravděpodobné přátelství. Přátelství bořící předsudky i hranice rozdílných světů. Přátelství mezi nepřáteli. Tento příběh je právem označovaný jako „poslední velký špionážní příběh studené války“.

      Nejlepší nepřátelé