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Americans know just as little about Long himself--a man who will shape their future lifestyles, be it the energy they use or taxes they pay. He is, of course, the son of Depression populist Huey Long, but that is merely cause for confusion. Huey made a career of attacking oil companies and as governor taxed them very heavily; Russell, with an estimated wealth of $100 million in mostly oil and gas, is the self-proclaimed "darling of the oil companies." The "Kingfish" became a national figure in the 1930s with his "share the wealth" ideas, which extended even...
Donald S. Connery's Guilty Until Proven Innocent traces this bizarre case, showing how prosecutors almost destroyed an impressionable but inofensive teenager. The police forced Reilly to confess he killed his mother. The illegitimate son's allegedly stormy relationship with his mother was named as the motive. Connery goes beyond outlining the skeletal facts of the case, focusing on how Falls Village reacted to the case. Two families--one Jewish and the other Italian--virtually adopted Reilly after the murder, mortgaging their homes to provide bail money and hiring him to babysit for their children in order to demonstrate their...
Following fast on the heels of another lurid Texas trial-a Houston civil-court jury last month cleared Oilman Ash Robinson of charges that he had conspired to murder his son-in-law-the trial of Cullen Davis has all the trappings of a suburban western. One August night in 1976, a black-wigged intruder broke into the $6 million Fort Worth mansion where Davis' estranged wife Priscilla lived with a new lover, ex-Basketball Player Stan Farr. In the shooting rampage that followed, Farr and Andrea Wilborn, 12, Priscilla's daughter by a previous marriage, were left...
...have absorbed as much bile in their mother's milk as the son of Marguerite Oswald. Her sense of grievance against a world that she felt owed her a living pervaded Lee's life, causing him, at the age of 20, to seek some fancied redress in the U.S.S.R. Though the Soviets finally accorded the American defector privileged status-with perquisites that included an apartment of his own and a cash subsidy-the Soviets' largesse could not satisfy Lee's inexhaustible demands...
...irrepressible Ginger Man, but one of Donleavy's sensitive young souls. His mother dies when Darcy is young and the lad inherits Andromeda Park, a venerable estate that has seen better days and will see worse. Darcy's absentee father lunges at the inheritance, making his son's life miserable. Sure and it is a long, crowded road that Darcy must travel before his story ends...