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'DREAM HOLIDAY READING....I ENJOYED LEAMER'S BOOK A LOT.' SUNDAY
TIMES 'ABSOLUTELY PERFECT POOLSIDE READING AND I CANNOT WAIT FOR
THE MINI-SERIES.' THE TIMES 'BARRELING AND WELL-RESEARCHED.' MAIL
ON SUNDAY 'There are certain women,' Truman Capote wrote, 'who,
though perhaps not born rich, are born to be rich.' These women
captivated and enchanted Capote - he befriended them, received
their deepest confidences, and ingratiated himself into their
lives. From Barbara 'Babe' Paley to Lee Radziwill (Jackie Kennedy's
sister) they were the toast of mid-century New York, each beautiful
and distinguished in her own way. For years, Capote had been trying
to write what he believed would be his magnum opus, Answered
Prayers. But when he eventually published a few chapters in
Esquire, the barely fictionalised lives (and scandals) of his
closest female confidantes were laid bare for all to see. The
blowback incinerated his relationships and banished Capote from
their high-society world forever. In Capote's Women, New York Times
bestselling author Laurence Leamer investigates the true story of
the renowned author and his famous friends, weaving a fascinating
tale of friendship, intrigue, and betrayal.
A nonfiction legal thriller that traces the fourteen-year
struggle of two lawyers to bring the most powerful coal baron in
American history, Don Blankenship, to justice
Don Blankenship, head of Massey Energy since the early 1990s,
ran an industry that provides nearly half of America's electric
power. But wealth and influence weren't enough for Blankenship and
his company, as they set about destroying corporate and personal
rivals, challenging the Constitution, purchasing the West Virginia
judiciary, and willfully disregarding safety standards in the
company's mines--in which scores died unnecessarily.
As Blankenship hobnobbed with a West Virginia Supreme Court
justice in France, his company polluted the drinking water of
hundreds of citizens while he himself fostered baroque vendettas
against anyone who dared challenge his sovereignty over coal mining
country. Just about the only thing that stood in the way of
Blankenship's tyranny over a state and an industry was a pair of
odd-couple attorneys, Dave Fawcett and Bruce Stanley, who undertook
a legal quest to bring justice to this corner of America. From the
backwoods courtrooms of West Virginia they pursued their case all
the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and to a dramatic decision
declaring that the wealthy and powerful are not entitled to
purchase their own brand of law.
"The Price of Justice" is a story of corporate corruption so
far-reaching and devastating it could have been written a hundred
years ago by Ida Tarbell or Lincoln Steffens. And as Laurence
Leamer demonstrates in this captivating tale, because it's true,
it's scarier than fiction.
Love, lust, and fatal hatreds inside America's most exclusive
enclave of wealth and privilege--Palm Beach. Bernard Madoff's Ponzi
scheme devastated the eternally sunny world of Palm Beach, bringing
down multimillionaires and destroying once-wealthy widows. The
South Florida island and its rarified life suddenly found itself at
the epicenter of the scandal, with this strange universe of wealth
and privilege under an unrelenting spotlight. Now, in Madness Under
the Royal Palms, Laurence Leamer shows us--as no one else has--this
world of the megawealthy, which he calls "as hidden a place as I
have ever resided." Digging deep, he hits a dark well of
conflicting ambitions--right up to and including murder--much
darker than the sky-blue weather and sunny Lily Pulitzer prints
most of us associate with Palm Beach.
The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women
chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal
race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of
the most pernicious organizations in American history-the Ku Klux
Klan. On a Friday night in March 1981 Henry Hays and James Knowles
scoured the streets of Mobile in their car, hunting for a black
man. The young men were members of Klavern 900 of the United Klans
of America. They were seeking to retaliate after a largely black
jury could not reach a verdict in a trial involving a black man
accused of the murder of a white man. The two Klansmen found
nineteen-year-old Michael Donald walking home alone. Hays and
Knowles abducted him, beat him, cut his throat, and left his body
hanging from a tree branch in a racially mixed residential
neighborhood. Arrested, charged, and convicted, Hays was sentenced
to death-the first time in more than half a century that the state
of Alabama sentenced a white man to death for killing a black man.
On behalf of Michael's grieving mother, Morris Dees, the legendary
civil rights lawyer and cofounder of the Southern Poverty Law
Center, filed a civil suit against the members of the local Klan
unit involved and the UKA, the largest Klan organization. Charging
them with conspiracy, Dees put the Klan on trial, resulting in a
verdict that would level a deadly blow to its organization. Based
on numerous interviews and extensive archival research, The
Lynching brings to life two dramatic trials, during which the
Alabama Klan's motives and philosophy were exposed for the evil
they represent. In addition to telling a gripping and consequential
story, Laurence Leamer chronicles the KKK and its activities in the
second half the twentieth century, and illuminates its lingering
effect on race relations in America today. The Lynching includes
sixteen pages of black-and-white photographs.
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