Contains entries that examine the lives and crimes of assassins, serial killers, frauds, gangsters, murderers, terrorists, thieves, and traitors whose crimes influenced the history of the United States; arranged alphabetically from Kac to Z, with suggestions for further reading, photographs, and sidebars.
General Note
"Essays originally appeared in Great lives from history: notorious lives (2007). New material has been added"--T.p. verso.