
The Infernal Machine
A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
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“A fast-burning fuse of a book, every page bursting with revelatory detail.”—ERIK LARSON
A sweeping account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat—a tale of fanaticism, forensic science, and dynamite from the bestselling author of The Ghost Map
A CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION • NOMINATED FOR THE EDGAR AWARD
Steven Johnson’s engrossing account of the epic struggle between the anarchist movement and the emerging surveillance state stretches around the world and between two centuries—from Alfred Nobel’s invention of dynamite and the assassination of Czar Alexander II to New York City in the shadow of World War I.
April 1914. The NYPD is still largely the corrupt, low-tech organization of the Tammany Hall era. To the extent the police are stopping crime—as opposed to committing it—their role has been almost entirely defined by physical force: the brawn of the cop on the beat keeping criminals at bay with nightsticks and fists. The solving of crimes is largely outside their purview.
The new commissioner, Arthur Woods, is determined to change that, but he cannot anticipate the maelstrom of violence that will soon test his science-based approach to policing. Within weeks of his tenure, New York City is engulfed in the most concentrated terrorism campaign in the nation’s history: a five-year period of relentless bombings, many of them perpetrated by the anarchist movement led by legendary radicals Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman. Coming to Woods’s aide are Inspector Joseph Faurot, a science-first detective who works closely with him in reforming the police force, and Amadeo Polignani, the young Italian undercover detective who infiltrates the notorious Bresci Circle.
Johnson reveals a mostly forgotten period of political conviction, scientific discovery, assassination plots, bombings, undercover operations, and innovative sleuthing. The Infernal Machine is the complex pre-history of our current moment, when decentralized anarchist networks have once again taken to the streets to protest law enforcement abuses, right-wing militia groups have attacked government buildings, and surveillance is almost ubiquitous.
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- De: Steven Johnson
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Mind Wide Open comes a groundbreaking assessment of popular culture as it's never been considered before: through the lens of intelligence. Forget everything you’ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture.
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great material, but outdated.
- De Anonymous User en 01-15-18
De: Steven Johnson
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Extra Life
- A Short History of Living Longer
- De: Steven Johnson
- Narrado por: Steven Johnson
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
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In 1920, at the end of the last major pandemic, global life expectancy was just over 40 years. Today, in many parts of the world, human beings can expect to live more than 80 years. As a species, we have doubled our life expectancy in just one century. There are few measures of human progress more astonishing than this increased longevity.
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Thought provoking
- De MacGyver124 en 06-14-21
De: Steven Johnson
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Where Good Ideas Come From
- The Natural History of Innovation
- De: Steven Johnson
- Narrado por: Eric Singer
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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What sparks the flash of brilliance? How does groundbreaking innovation happen? Answering in his infectious, culturally omnivorous style, using his fluency in fields from neurobiology to popular culture, Johnson provides the complete, exciting, and encouraging story of how we generate the ideas that push our careers, our lives, our society, and our culture forward.
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Ambitious
- De Roy en 12-08-10
De: Steven Johnson
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Farsighted
- De: Steven Johnson
- Narrado por: George Newbern, Steven Johnson - introduction
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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There's no one-size-fits-all model for the important decisions that can alter the course of a life, an organization, or a civilization. But Farsighted explains how we can approach these choices more effectively and how we can appreciate the subtle intelligence of choices that shaped our broader social history.
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Powerful Book for Business and Personal Decisions
- De Robert Z en 09-30-18
De: Steven Johnson
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The Incorruptibles
- A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld
- De: Dan Slater
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the Lower East Side, then the most crowded ghetto on earth, Eastern European Jews formed a dense web of crime syndicates. Gangs of horse poisoners and casino owners, pimps and prostitutes, thieves and thugs, jockeyed for dominance while their family members and neighbors toiled in the unregulated garment industry. But when the notorious murder of a gambler attracted global attention, a coterie of affluent German-Jewish uptowners decided to take matters into their own hands.
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Very Entertaining/Researched
- De ptr en 02-23-25
De: Dan Slater
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Dog Company
- The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc - the Rangers Who Landed at D-Day and Fought Across Europe
- De: Patrick K. O’Donnell
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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It is said that the right man in the right place at the right time can mean the difference between victory and defeat. This is the dramatic story of 68 soldiers in the US Army's Second Ranger Battalion, Company D - "Dog Company" - who made that difference, time and again. America had many heroes in World War II; however, few can say that, but for them, the course of the war would have been very different. The right men, the right place, the right time - Dog Company.
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On par with the best; Band of Brothers, etc
- De Addicted to Amazon en 04-30-14
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Stakeknife's Dirty War
- How Scappaticci, British Intelligence and Special Branch Ran the IRA
- De: Richard O'Rawe
- Narrado por: Alan Turkington
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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Freddie Scappaticci was born in 1946 and raised in a deeply nationalist area of Belfast. When the Troubles broke out in 1969, he joined the Provisional IRA, where he quickly rose through the ranks, becoming commander of Belfast in 1984. From the outside, Scappaticci appeared to be a dedicated volunteer, but inwardly, he had become disenchanted with the IRA and, in 1977, he started working for British intelligence.
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Only losers in this ‘war’ were the Irish people
- De puplhunt en 03-11-24
De: Richard O'Rawe
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Narcotopia
- In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA
- De: Patrick Winn
- Narrado por: Patrick Winn
- Duración: 15 h y 30 m
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In Asia’s narcotics-producing heartland, the Wa reign supreme. They dominate the Golden Triangle, a mountainous stretch of Burma between Thailand and China. Their 30,000-strong army, wielding missiles and attack drones, makes Mexican cartels look like street gangs.
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Absolutely Incredible
- De Oded N. en 05-02-25
De: Patrick Winn
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Blood Echoes
- The Infamous Alday Mass Murder and Its Aftermath
- De: Thomas H. Cook
- Narrado por: Kris Koscheski
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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It was not a clever killing. On May 5, 1973, three men escaped from a Maryland prison and disappeared. Joined by a 15-year-old brother, they surfaced in Georgia, where they were spotted joyriding in a stolen car. Within a week, the four young men were arrested on suspicion of committing one of the most horrific murders in American history. Jerry Alday and his family were eating Sunday dinner when death burst through the door of their cozy little trailer. Their six bodies are only the beginning of Thomas H. Cook's retelling of this gruesome story.
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very accurate
- De Amazon Customer en 10-05-21
De: Thomas H. Cook
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A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite
- De: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrado por: Adam Higginbotham
- Duración: 2 h y 19 m
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The bomb appeared early one morning in an upstairs office of Harvey’s Wagon Wheel Casino near Lake Tahoe, an enigmatic box covered in a bewildering array of switches. A neatly typed letter explained that the box contained 1,000 pounds of dynamite. It was the largest improvised explosive device in American history - and its creator promised to explain how to remove it safely if the casino delivered $3 million by helicopter to a remote landing site in the mountains.
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Great
- De Red Plammer en 10-24-16
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The Shooter at Midnight
- Murder, Corruption, and a Farming Town Divided
- De: Sean Patrick Cooper
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Cooper
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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On a November night in 1990, Cathy Robertson is murdered in her home outside Chillicothe, Missouri. After law enforcement conduct a haphazard investigation, the sheriff’s office puts the case in the hands of a Kansas City private eye with his own agenda. In a close-knit town still reeling from the aftereffects of the farming crisis, friends and neighbors abruptly fracture into opposing camps. Mark Woodworth, a Robertson family neighbor, eventually receives four life sentences for a crime that a growing group of local supporters believe he didn’t commit.
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A town divided! Great read
- De Jesse en 05-12-24
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Prisoner of Lies
- Jack Downey's Cold War
- De: Barry Werth
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
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John (Jack) Downey, Jr., was a new Yale graduate in the post-World War II years who, like other Yale grads, was recruited by the young CIA. He joined the Agency and was sent to Japan in 1952, during the Korean War. In a violation of protocol, he took part in an air drop that failed and was captured over China. His sources on the ground had been compromised, and his identity was known. Although he first tried to deny who he was, he eventually admitted the truth. But government policy forbade ever acknowledging the identity of spies, no matter the consequences.
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The Jack I knew
- De Frederick P. Leaf en 12-10-24
De: Barry Werth
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Camp Damascus
- De: Chuck Tingle
- Narrado por: Mara Wilson
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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Welcome to Neverton, Montana: home to a God-fearing community with a heart of gold. Nestled high up in the mountains is Camp Damascus, the self-proclaimed “most effective” gay conversion camp in the country. Here, a life free from sin awaits. But the secret behind that success is anything but holy. And they’ll scare you straight to hell.
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A Horror That Hits Home
- De P Parker en 11-09-23
De: Chuck Tingle
Really Emma Goldman bio
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Learning the history of the time
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A Must Read
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History we all need to know about
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The story revealed not reviled
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This could have been a straightforward tale of good versus evil, but in Steven Johnson’s hands, it transforms into a thought-provoking exploration of ideas—what worked, what didn’t, and why. Highly recommended
Revolutionary Insights
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definitely worth a listen.
Very enjoyable and very informative
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Explosives, terrorism, police and state power
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so boring
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