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Cop's Book Says Sean Combs, Suge Knight Ordered Tupac and Biggie Killings
The LA Weekly investigation provided the public with the first big break in nearly a decade in the 14-year-old unsolved murder cases of rap superstars Tupac Shakur and Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace.
Tags: Tupac, Biggie Smalls; Sean Combs; LA Weekly; Rap
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Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers
"This book looks at the hidden causes of the retirement crisis in America. While employers blame an aging workforce, global competition and market losses, Retirement Heist demonstrates that employers themselves are largely to blame for the crisis."
Tags: retirement
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The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust
"This book was an effort to craft as definitive an account as possible of Madoff's scandal, the larges Ponzi scheme in history."
Tags: Bernie Madoff; Wall Street; Ponzi scheme
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Render Unto Rome
This book investigates the Catholic Church's finances and breaks new ground on several fronts including fiscal mismanagement, embezzlement and abuse.
Tags: Catholic Church; book
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All the Devils are Here: The Hidden Story of the Financial Crisis
The book attempts to explore all the various forces -- on Main Street; Washington; and Wall Street -- that led to the financial crisis of 2008.
Tags: Wall Street; financial crisis; lending; subprime mortgage
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The Monster How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America -- and Spawned a Glboal Crisis
"The Monster" investigates the history of the subprime mortgage business by unraveling the corporate histories of the industry's two most important players, Ameriquest and Lehman Brothers. The book documents the widespread fraud and law-breaking that were largely to blame for the financial system's meltdown.
Tags: Lehman Brothers; Ameriquest; subprime mortgage; lender
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Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity
"Scoreboard, Baby" chronicles the 2000 University of Washington football team, the last squad from the school to go the Rose Bowl. Based on exhaustive reporting, the book shows how a community's blind embrace of a football team compromised judges, prosecutors, police agencies, a proud university and the media.
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Infinite Monster
The book exposes the politics of recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike and explores the destitution of loss and the revelry of rebirth.
Tags: Hurricane Ike; huricane; Texas coast; storm
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The Only Thing Worth Dying For
The book tells the story of how Hamid Karzai came to power as the president of Afghanistan. It recounts of the story of the eleven Green Berets tasked with the seemingly impossible mission of fomenting a rebellion among the Pashtun Tribal belt, against the Taliban during the weeks after September 11, 2001.
Tags: Hamid Karzai; Afghanistan; taliban; War on Terror
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Selling the Fountain of Youth
The book takes readers inside the modern anti-aging industry, where doctors prescribe human growth hormone (HGH), "bio-identical" estrogen and progesterone, and an infinite medicine chest of herbal supplements such as resveratrol and acai.
Tags: anti-aging; supplements; drugs