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The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld
Gila Wertheimer Gila Wertheimer is Associate Editor of the Chicago Jewish Star. She is an award-winning journalist who has been reviewing books for 35 years. Reviews Nonfiction The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic: Rereading the Women of the Talmud Gila Fine Nonfiction (In)Sights: Peacemaking in the Oslo Process Thirty Years and Counting Gidi (Gideon) Grinstein and Ari Afilalo Nonfiction My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering Martha Hodes Cookbook The Eucalyptus Cookbook Moshe Basson Nonfiction My Kaddish: A Child Speaks from the Warsaw Ghetto Thérèse (Terri) Masson Nonfiction Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict Oren Kessler Nonfiction Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East Yonah Jeremy Bob llan Evyatar Nonfiction Star Crossed: A True WWII Romeo and Juliet Love Story in Hitler’s Paris Heather Dune Macadam Simon Worrall Nonfiction Teachers: The Ones I Can’t Forget Martin Fletcher Nonfiction Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: That’s How the Light Gets In Michael Posner Nonfiction The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America Christopher C. Gorham Nonfiction Satisfaction Guaranteed: How Zingerman’s Built a Corner Deli into a Global Food Community Micheline Maynard Nonfiction The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp Simon Parker Nonfiction Sidney Reilly: Master Spy Benny Morris Nonfiction The Watchmakers: A Story of Brotherhood, Hope, and Survival During the Holocaust Scott Lenga Pagination Page 1 Next page ››
Nonfiction (In)Sights: Peacemaking in the Oslo Process Thirty Years and Counting Gidi (Gideon) Grinstein and Ari Afilalo
Nonfiction Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict Oren Kessler
Nonfiction Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East Yonah Jeremy Bob llan Evyatar
Nonfiction Star Crossed: A True WWII Romeo and Juliet Love Story in Hitler’s Paris Heather Dune Macadam Simon Worrall
Nonfiction The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America Christopher C. Gorham
Nonfiction Satisfaction Guaranteed: How Zingerman’s Built a Corner Deli into a Global Food Community Micheline Maynard
Nonfiction The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp Simon Parker
Nonfiction The Watchmakers: A Story of Brotherhood, Hope, and Survival During the Holocaust Scott Lenga