Ted Schwarz: 7 books
by Ted Schwarz
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
They are the dirty little secrets of Cleveland's past, mob guys so good--or so bad--that you rarely hear their stories. Men such as Micky McBride turned newsboys into sluggers, gave bookies a run for suckers' losing bets and created the Cleveland Browns when football was still a sport the players knew...
Cleveland Curiosities
Eliot Ness & His Blundering Raid, A Busker's Promise, the Richest Heiress Who Never Lived and More
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Eliot Ness might come busting in and take all of you crooks to jail--or more likely he won't, even if you've been robbing banks all over Cleveland and bragging about it to the media, like self-proclaimed "last of the big-time bank robbers" Eddie Watkins. This isn't your Kevin Costner version of Eliot...
Marilyn Revealed
The Ambitious Life of an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008
What made Norma Jean special was the quality she discovered when, bored with being a teenage bride with a husband in the Merchant Marine during World War II, she took her first and most enduring lover, the camera. At the age of 36, Marilyn Monroe died a Hollywood movie star and an American legend....
The Peter Lawford Story
Life with the Kennedys, Monroe, and the Rat Pack
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
As the brother in law to JFK and a member of the Rat Pack, Peter Lawford was one of America's most acclaimed movie stars.
Lawford led an extraordinary life. His story, as told by the woman who knew him best, is the always candid, sometimes shocking unveiling of the most intriguing show business...
Deadly Indifference
The Perfect (Political) Storm: Hurricane Katrina, The Bush White House, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
At last, former Under Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Brown—infamously praised by President George W. Bush for doing a "heckuva job" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina—tells his side of the response to one of the greatest natural disasters to occur in the United States. Without making excuses...
Secret Weapons
Two Sisters Terrifying True Story of Sex, Spies and Sabotage
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
As children, two sisters became pawns in a top secret government program to train guerrilla leaders, assassins and information couriers: secret weapons for American intelligence services. Years passed; the sisters grew up, married and had children. But inside lay dormant, hidden skills - weapons training,...
Candy Barr
The Small-Town Texas Runaway Who Became a Darling of the Mob and the Queen of Las Vegas Burlesque
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Born Juanita Slusher in Edna, Texas, in 1935, the entertainer who became Candy Barr was perhaps the last great dancer in burlesque, a stripper who insisted on live, improvisational music and who at one time commanded $2,000 a week in 1950s Las Vegas. But as Juanita she had started life as a prematurely...