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Illegal Tender
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Author : David Tripp
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2007-11-01
Illegal Tender written by David Tripp and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-01 with History categories.
It's the most valuable ounce of gold in the world, the celebrated, the fabled, the infamous 1933 double eagle, illegal to own and coveted all the more, sought with passion by men of wealth and with steely persistence by the United States government for more than a half century—it shouldn't even exist but it does, and its astonishing, true adventures read like "a composite of The Lord of the Rings and The Maltese Falcon" (The New York Times). In 1905, at the height of the exuberant Gilded Age, President Theodore Roosevelt commissioned America's greatest sculptor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens—as he battled in vain for his life—to create what became America's most beautiful coin. In 1933 the hopes of America dimmed in the darkness of the Great Depression, and gold—the nation's lifeblood—hemorrhaged from the financial system. As the economy teetered on the brink of total collapse, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his first act as president, assumed wartime powers while the nation was at peace and in a "swift, staccato action" unprecedented in United States history recalled all gold and banned its private ownership. But the United States Mint continued, quite legally, to strike nearly a half million 1933 double eagles that were never issued and were deemed illegal to own. In 1937, along with countless millions of other gold coins, they were melted down into faceless gold bars and sent to Fort Knox. The government thought they had destroyed them all—but they were wrong. A few escaped, purloined in a crime—an inside job—that wasn't discovered until 1944. Then, the fugitive 1933 double eagles became the focus of a relentless Secret Service investigation spearheaded by the man who had put away Al Capone. All the coins that could be found were seized and destroyed. But one was beyond their reach, in a king's collection in Egypt, where it survived a world war, a revolution, and a coup, only to be lost again. In 1996, more than forty years later, in a dramatic sting operation set up by a Secret Service informant at the Waldorf-Astoria, an English and an American coin dealer were arrested with a 1933 double eagle which, after years of litigation, was sold in July 2002 to an anonymous buyer for more than $7.5 million in a record-shattering auction. But was it the only one? The lost one? Illegal Tender, revealing information available for the first time, tells a riveting tale of American history, liberally spiced with greed, intrigue, deception, and controversy as it follows the once secret odyssey of this fabulous golden object through the decades. With its cast of kings, presidents, government agents, shadowy dealers, and crooks, Illegal Tender will keep readers guessing about this incomparable disk of gold—the coin that shouldn't be and almost wasn't—until the very end.
Illegal Tender
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Author : JOHNSON DAVID R
language : en
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
Release Date : 1995
Illegal Tender written by JOHNSON DAVID R and has been published by Smithsonian Books (DC) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Business & Economics categories.
The federal government was compelled to respond to this growing illegal enterprise, which represented a threat to both the national economy and the federal government's authority to control the currency. In 1865 it created the Secret Service - an agency that over the next forty years, would eradicate counterfeiting as a major urban crime.
Illegal Tender
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Author : Gerald Hammond
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-01
Illegal Tender written by Gerald Hammond and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01 with Computer crimes categories.
A Three Oaks mystery.
Illegal Tender
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Author : Dominic Devine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Illegal Tender written by Dominic Devine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with categories.
Kriminalroman.
Illegal Tender
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Author : Richard Phillips
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-07-12
Illegal Tender written by Richard Phillips and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-12 with categories.
This is a fast-paced thriller which centres around a British cash-in-transit (armoured car) company whose Slough operation becomes the target of a group of skilled, violent and merciless criminals manipulated by an "invisible" psychopath, who pull off one of the most daring robberies of our time. The cash-in-transit industry plays an integral role in the nation's economy as it distributes and secures hundreds of millions in high value currency and other assets on fleets of armoured vehicles out of high security hubs across the land. The responsibility for the criminal investigation lands in the lap of the Slough police. The chief investigating officer and his team pursue numerous leads through a series of sub plots, with the assistance of Interpol and Samantha Kelly, an attractive, wily insurance investigator assigned to the task by a Lloyds insurance syndicate in London. The magnitude of the loss places enormous pressure on the insurance syndicate and Sam embarks on a journey of extreme personal danger in an effort to recover as much of the loss as possible from locations in the United Kingdom, Europe and South America.
Illegal Tender
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Author : David R. Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Illegal Tender written by David R. Johnson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Counterfeits and counterfeiting categories.
The Birth Of The Fbi
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Author : Willard M. Oliver
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-07-16
The Birth Of The Fbi written by Willard M. Oliver and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-16 with History categories.
Most people believe the Federal Bureau of Investigation began under J. Edgar Hoover in the 1920s or 1930s. Many also naturally assume it was developed for the express purpose of fighting crime. However, the reality is very different. The reality is it began years earlier, in 1908, under President Theodore Roosevelt. In The Birth of the FBI: Teddy Roosevelt, the Secret Service, and the Fight Over America's Premier Law Enforcement Agency, Willard Oliver details the political fight that led to the birth of America’s premier law enforcement agency. Roosevelt was concerned about conservation and one issue he wanted enforced were the fraudulent land deals being perpetrated by many people, including some members of Congress. When he began using the Secret Service to investigate these crimes, Congress blocked him from doing so. The end result of this political spat was Roosevelt’s creation of the FBI, which heightened the political row between the two branches of government in the final year of Roosevelt’s presidency. The truth of the matter is, the premier law enforcement agency in the United States was actually created because of a political fight between the executive and legislative branches of government. The Birth of the FBI reveals the true story behind the birth of the FBI and provides some useful insight into an important part of our American history.
Stealing Lincoln S Body
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Author : Thomas J. Craughwell
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-02-28
Stealing Lincoln S Body written by Thomas J. Craughwell and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-28 with History categories.
On the night of the presidential election in 1876, a gang of counterfeiters out of Chicago attempted to steal the entombed embalmed body of Abraham Lincoln and hold it for ransom. The custodian of the tomb was so shaken by the incident that he willingly dedicated the rest of his life to protecting the president’s corpse. In a lively and dramatic narrative, Thomas J. Craughwell returns to this bizarre, and largely forgotten, event with the first book to place the grave robbery in historical context. He takes us through the planning and execution of the crime and the outcome of the investigation. He describes the reactions of Mary Todd Lincoln and Robert Todd Lincoln to the theft—and the peculiar silence of a nation. He follows the unlikely tale of what happened to Lincoln’s remains after the attempted robbery, and details the plan devised by the Lincoln Guard of Honor to prevent a similar abominable recurrence. Along the way, Craughwell offers entertaining sidelights on the rise of counterfeiting in America and the establishment of the Secret Service to combat it; the prevalence of grave robberies; the art of nineteenth-century embalming; and the emergence among Irish immigrants of an ambitious middle class—and a criminal underclass. This rousing story of hapless con men, intrepid federal agents, and ordinary Springfield citizens who honored their native son by keeping a valuable, burdensome secret for decades offers a riveting glimpse into late-nineteenth-century America, and underscores that truth really is sometimes stranger than fiction.
A Nation Of Counterfeiters
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Author : Stephen Mihm
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
A Nation Of Counterfeiters written by Stephen Mihm and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with History categories.
Prior to the Civil War, the United States did not have a single, national currency. Counterfeiters flourished amid this anarchy, putting vast quantities of bogus bills into circulation. Their success, Mihm reveals, is more than an entertaining tale of criminal enterprise: it is the story of the rise of a country defined by freewheeling capitalism and little government control. Mihm shows how eventually the older monetary system was dismantled, along with the counterfeit economy it sustained.
Roger Ebert S Movie Yearbook 2009
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Author : Roger Ebert
language : en
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Release Date : 2009-06-15
Roger Ebert S Movie Yearbook 2009 written by Roger Ebert and has been published by Andrews McMeel Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-15 with Performing Arts categories.
Nobody has been more important in telling Americans why we should love film than Roger Ebert. --Michael Shamberg, Editor and Publisher Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert presents more than 650 full-length critical movie reviews, along with interviews, essays, tributes, film festival reports, and Q and As from Questions for the Movie Answer Man. Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009 collects more than two years' worth of his engaging film critiques. From Bee Movie to Darfur Now to No Country for Old Men, and from Juno to Persepolis to La Vie en Rose, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009 includes every review Ebert has written from January 2006 to June 2008. Also included in the Yearbook, which boasts 65 percent new content, are: * Interviews with newsmakers, such as Juno director Jason Reitman and Jerry Seinfeld, a touching tribute to Deborah Kerr, and an emotional letter of appreciation to Werner Herzog. * Essays on film issues, and tributes to actors and directors who died during the year. * Daily film festival reports from Cannes, Toronto, Sundance, and Telluride. * All-new questions and answers from his Questions for the Movie Answer Man columns.