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Asked how the Missouri State Penitentiary compared to other famous prisons, a historian and former prison administrator replied, “It’s older and meaner.” For 168 years, it was everything other prisons were and more.
In The Missouri State Penitentiary, Jamie Pamela Rasmussen recounts the long and fascinating history of the place, focusing on the stories of inmates and the struggles by prison officials to provide opportunities for reform while keeping costs down. Tales of prominent prisoners, including Pretty Boy Floyd, Sonny Liston, and James Earl Ray, provide intrigue and insight into the institution’s infamous reputation.
A highlight in the chapter on the Civil War years is the story of George Thompson, who was imprisoned for attempting to help a number of slaves to freedom. The narrative enters the 20th century with the controversy surrounding the various systems of inmate labor; the effort to make the prison self-supporting eventually caused punishment to be driven by factory needs. The example of Firebug Johnson demonstrates how inmates reacted to the prison labor system, while Kate Richards O’Hare’s struggles and efforts to improve conditions in the penitentiary illuminate the role of women in the system at the time.
A full chapter is devoted to the riot of 1954, and another concentrates on the reforms made in the wake of that catastrophe. Rasmussen also considers the effect inmate lawsuits during the 1980s and 1990s had on prison life before telling the story of the decision to close the prison.
The Missouri State Penitentiary provides a fitting account of an institution that was part of Missouri’s history for well over a century.
The book is published by University of Missouri Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.
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For over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope of their effects and the savage practicality with which governments have employed them. Even in the 21st century, as we continue to reckon with the magnitude and horror of the Holocaust, history tells us we have broken our own solemn promise of "never again".
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2 out of 5 stars
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Important subject. Horrible narration.
- De wmorrison en 07-04-19
De: Andrea Pitzer
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Black Detroit
- A People's History of Self-Determination
- De: Herb Boyd
- Narrado por: James Shippy
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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The author of Baldwin's Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit - a blend of memoir, love letter, history, and clear-eyed reportage that explores the city's past, present, and future and its significance to the African American legacy and the nation's fabric.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Selective Recall
- De Rick en 07-19-17
De: Herb Boyd
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By Hands Now Known
- Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
- De: Margaret A. Burnham
- Narrado por: Diana Blue
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Margaret A. Burnham challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and background legal norms in harrowing cases between 1920 and 1960. From rendition, the legal process by which states make claims to other states for the return of their citizens, to battles over state and federal jurisdiction and the outsize role of local sheriffs in enforcing racial hierarchy, Burnham maps the criminal legal system of the mid-twentieth-century South, and traces the line from slavery to the legal structures of this period—and through to today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartbreaking
- De sharon en 11-24-22
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Freedom's Detective
- The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror
- De: Charles Lane
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 10 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 131
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Freedom’s Detective reveals the untold story of the Reconstruction-era US Secret Service and their battle against the Ku Klux Klan, through the career of its controversial chief, Hiram C. Whitle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Evan Review
- De Evan en 06-23-19
De: Charles Lane
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The Assassin's Accomplice
- Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln
- De: Kate Clifford Larson
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
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In The Assassin’s Accomplice, historian Kate Clifford Larson tells the gripping story of Mary Surratt, a little-known conspirator in the plot to kill Abraham Lincoln, and the first woman ever to be executed by the federal government. A Confederate sympathizer, Surratt ran the boarding house where the conspirators met to plan Lincoln’s assassination. Set against the backdrop of the Civil War, The Assassin’s Accomplice tells the intricate story of the Lincoln conspiracy through the eyes of its only female participant, offering a fresh perspective on America’s most famous murder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Did She or Didn't She
- De c a cornelius en 06-04-21
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Old Sparky
- The Electric Chair and the History of the Death Penalty
- De: Anthony Galvin
- Narrado por: Jack Reynolds
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 41
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Old Sparky covers the history of capital punishment in America and the "current wars" between Edison and Westinghouse, which led to the development of the electric chair. It examines how the electric chair became the most popular method of execution in America before being superseded by lethal injection. Famous executions are explored alongside quirky last meals and poignant last words.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Information not a sermon.
- De Jakk en 10-24-16
De: Anthony Galvin
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Out of Mao's Shadow
- The Struggle for the Soul of a New China
- De: Philip P. Pan
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 13 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 144
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Prize-winning journalist Philip P. Pan offers an unprecedented inside look at the momentous battle underway for China's future. On one side is the entrenched party elite determined to preserve its authoritarian grip on power. On the other is a collection of lawyers, journalists, entrepreneurs, activists, hustlers, and dreamers striving to build a more tolerant, open, and democratic China.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great insight into changes in China
- De Paul en 04-14-09
De: Philip P. Pan
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Gulag
- A History
- De: Anne Applebaum
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 27 h y 41 m
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The Gulag - a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners - was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nice compliment to Solzhenitsyn
- De Thucydides en 08-03-17
De: Anne Applebaum
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The Pharmacist of Auschwitz
- The Untold Story
- De: Patricia Posner
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
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The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is the little-known story of Victor Capesius, a Bayer pharmaceutical salesman from Romania, who, at the age of 35, joined the Nazi SS in 1943 and quickly became the chief pharmacist at the largest death camp, Auschwitz. Based in part on previously classified documents, Patricia Posner exposes Capesius's reign of terror at the camp, his escape from justice, and how a handful of courageous survivors and a single brave prosecutor finally brought him to trial for murder 20 years after the end of the war.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I respect every victim of the Holocaust to....
- De LisalouRN en 08-26-17
De: Patricia Posner
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Blood in the Water
- The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
- De: Heather Ann Thompson
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 22 h y 46 m
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On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment. Holding guards and civilian employees hostage, the prisoners negotiated with officials for improved conditions during the four long days and nights that followed. On September 13, the state abruptly sent hundreds of heavily armed troopers and correction officers to retake the prison by force. Their gunfire killed 39 men - hostages as well as prisoners.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tragic Events, Well-Told
- De David en 10-27-17
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Slavery by Another Name
- The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
- De: Douglas A. Blackmon
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 15 h y 53 m
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In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an Age of Neoslavery that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Steel Yourself
- De Mark en 05-23-14
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Damnation Island
- Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
- De: Stacy Horn
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 408
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 349
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 345
Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse. Stacy Horn has crafted a compelling and chilling narrative told through the stories of the poor souls sent to Blackwell's, as well as the period's city officials, reformers, and journalists (including the famous Nellie Bly). Damnation Island re-creates what daily life was like on the island....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating!
- De tamborine en 08-06-18
De: Stacy Horn
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Hanns and Rudolf
- The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz
- De: Thomas Harding
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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May 1945: In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investigation Team is assembled to hunt down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities the world has ever seen. One of the lead investigators is Lieutenant Hanns Alexander, a German Jew who is now serving in the British Army. Rudolf Höss is his most elusive target. Hanns and Rudolf reveals for the very first time the full, exhilarating account of Höss' capture, an encounter with repercussions that echo to this day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Read This Marvelous Book...
- De Douglas en 01-04-14
De: Thomas Harding
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American Midnight
- The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
- De: Adam Hochschild
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 15 h y 6 m
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From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a groundbreaking reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threated by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor
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5 out of 5 stars
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Disturbing yet Reassuring
- De Sams95 en 11-18-22
De: Adam Hochschild
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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
- De: Nikolaus Wachsmann
- Narrado por: Paul Hodgson
- Duración: 31 h y 5 m
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In KL, Wachsmann fills this glaring gap in our understanding. He not only synthesizes a new generation of scholarly work, much of it untranslated and unknown outside of Germany, but also presents startling revelations, based on many years of archival research, about the functioning and scope of the camp system.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Narrator warning!
- De S R L COTTERILL en 04-24-15
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L.A. Noir
- The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
- De: John Buntin
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 17 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 202
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 181
Midcentury Los Angeles: A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America", a land of sunshine and orange groves, Midwestern values, and Hollywood stars, protected by the world's most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of "pleasure girls" and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two men - one L.A.'s most notorious gangster, the other its most famous police chief - each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A good (but a little corny) history of LA
- De Jimmy en 10-23-12
De: John Buntin
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American Mafia
- A History of Its Rise to Power
- De: Thomas Reppetto
- Narrado por: Paul Costanzo
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Organized crime - the Italian American kind - has long been a source of popular entertainment and legend. Now Thomas Reppetto provides a balanced history of the Mafia's rise - from the 1880s to the post-World War II era - that is as exciting as it is authoritative. Structuring his narrative around a series of case histories featuring such infamous characters as Lucky Luciano and Al Capone, Reppetto draws on a lifetime of field experience and access to unseen documents to show us a locally grown Mafia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mob at its best
- De Thomas en 02-14-23
De: Thomas Reppetto
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- 10-12-22
awesome
Loved it !! this story. the narrator is so fantastic it's like your really there!! good overall
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