Isbn: 9780841500259 - Against the Evidence; the Becker-rosenthal Affair (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: VG / VG. Hardcover in very good dust jacket (a).

Condition: Good. 0th Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket has a 2" tear and other minor edgewear as well as light soiling to spine. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 346 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Edge wear to jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: vg+. Dust Jacket Condition: good+. 9-3/8" tall; 346pp including index + section glossy b/w photos; b/w map frontis; brown cloth over boards with gilt lettering; top edge dyedf; discoloration and small tears along top edge to white dust jacket, which is in new clear protective mylar; prev. owner's name on first page. Hardcover (dj).…

unbound. Condition: Acceptable. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. …

unbound. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Brown cloth covered boards with gold spine titles; minimal wear; jacket has mild wear; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior is clean and unmarked; 346 pages.

brown & gilt decorative (bullet holes on cover) full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg cond. missing thin piece along top of spine, half inch tear front cover bottom near spine, minor soiling, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (nap). deckled foredge. b&w map of times square. 346p. glossy b&w photo illustrations. index. true crime. history of new york. biography. covert operations. politics. ~In 1912 the now seedy area radiating from Times Square was known as the Tenderloin~a word that symbolized all that was glittering and splendid and corrupt in New York City. One hot July night that year, in the heart of the Tenderloin, a gambling~house proprietor named Herman Rosenthal was gunned down by hired killers (who made one of the first automobile getaways in history). Circumstances conspired to make the murder one of the most famous of the century. The public was already inflamed about police grafting; and the man arrested for the murder was a known grafter: a tough, handsome police lieutenant, Charles Becker. With the aid of the press, Becker's trial quickly became a public issue. High~minded reformers and the general public insisted on his guilt, and the prospect of convicting a corrupt cop ~ even though those who testified against him were equally corrupt ~ was politically irresistible. For not the first or the last time, the court's proper function of dispensing justice was subverted to vent the public rage; and Becker, almost certainly innocent, wound up in the electric chair at Sing Sing, where even his execution was mishandled. The prosecutor, District Attorney Charles Whitman~as interesting a study in ambition as Becker himself~was elevated to the New York governor's seat by the grateful voters, and later became an active candidate for the Presidency. Against the Evidence is a rich, dramatic, and skillful re~creation of the Becker~Rosenthal case, which reverberated through the city's power structure and involved in one way or another nearly every public figure of the time. As a vivid evocation of the declining years of Tammany Hall and of the Tenderloin in its heyday, Against the Evidence is superb entertainment. As an illustration of the corruptive effects of ambition, of justice gone awry, and of the collaboration~at the public expense~of opposing forces in urban politics, this is an important book, acutely relevant to our own time.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Description: 346 p. Map, ports. 25 cm. Subjects: Becker, Charles, 1870-1915. Rosenthal, Herman, d. 1912. Murder --New York (State) --New York. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Description: 346 p. Map, ports. 25 cm. Subjects: Becker, Charles, 1870-1915. Rosenthal, Herman, d. 1912. Murder --New York (State) --New York. 1 Kg. …

Condition: good, fair. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 346, illus., map, index, some wear, soiling, tears, and chips to DJ. The 1912 murder of Herman Rosenthal, a gambling house proprietor, and the subsequent arrest of Charles Becker, a police lieutenant.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Frayed DJ. First Edition. 346pp. Illus. "The Becker-Rosenthal Affair." PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. (loc 992/1).

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Edge wear and soiling.; 9.50 X 6.50 X 1.30 inches; 346 pages.

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