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Front Cover; Front Matter; Half Title; Copyright; Title; Introduction; Table of Contents; 1906 Famous Architect Stanford White Murdered by Ex-Lover's Rich Husband; 1906 Writer Upton Sinclair Exposes Meat Industry's Nasty Underbelly; 1913 Native American Decathlete Jim Thorpe Stripped of Olympic Medals; 1919 Navy Officers Enact Messy Plan to Bust Gay Officers; 1919 Gamblers Pay Chicago White Sox to Throw World Series; 1920 Charles Ponzi Invents Scheme That Cons Masses Out of Millions; 1921 Silent Film Star "Fatty" Arbuckle Accused of Murder |
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1924 Wealthy Chicago Teens Leopold and Loeb Kill 14-Year-Old Boy for Thrills1925 Tennessee Puts Science Teacher Scopes on Trial for Teaching Evolution; 1927 Italian Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti Sentenced to Death for Political Views; 1932 World Famous Pilot Charles Lindbergh's Baby is Kidnapped and Killed; 1934 Little Gloria Vanderbilt Gets Caught in Crazy Custody Battle; 1938 Orson Welles' Radio Show Convinced Country That Aliens Were Invading; 1943 Hollywood Star Charlie Chaplin Accused of Fathering Stalker's Baby |
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1950 Small-Time Communist Couple, the Rosenbergs, Put to Death for Espionage1956 Rock Singer Elvis' Sexy Hip-Shaking on TV Shocks the Nation; 1957 Celebrities Defend Reputations Trashed by First Gossip Mag; 1958 Bad Boy Rock Star Jerry Lee Lewis Marries His Underage Cousin; 1958 Movie Star Lana Turner's Daughter Murders Her Mom's Boyfriend; 1959 Rigged Quiz Show Scandal Stuns TV Audiences; 1963 Harvard Professor Timothy Leary Fired for His Psychedelic Drug Experiments; 1968 Black Athletes Stage Controversial Protest at Olympics |
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1969 Senator Kennedy Involved in Mysterious Death of Young Woman1970 National Guard Shoots AntiWar Protestors at Kent State University; 1972 Unethical Syphilis Experiments Conducted on Black Men; 1974 President Nixon Forced to Resign After Being Connected to Crooked Scandal; 1974 Heiress Patty Hearst Abducted and Brainwashed by Radical Political Group; 1977 Director Roman Polanski Gets Convicted of Rape and Flees Country; 1978 People in Extreme Religious Sect Commit Mass Suicide in Jonestown Massacre; 1978 Gay Rights Activist Harvey Milk Assassinated by Political Rival |
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1980 Janet Cooke's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Story Declared Fake1984 Vanessa Williams Steps Down as Miss America; 1984 Bernhard Goetz Shoots Unarmed Black Youth on NYC Subway; 1987 Televangelist Jim Bakker Caught in Sex and Money Scandal; 1989 Baseball Great Pete Rose Banned From the Game for Gambling; 1989 Robert Mapplethorpe's Scandalous Photos Cause Big Stir; 1989 Pop Duo Milli Vanilli Lip Sync Their Way to a Grammy; 1990 Madonna's Racy Blond Ambition Tour Protested by Catholic Church; 1991 Supreme Court Nominee Clarence Thomas Charged With Sexual Harassment |
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Do you love a good scandal' This book includes 50 juicy pop culture, political, and entertainment-related scandals complete with photos, event synopses, and a look at why it went down in history and how it continues to influence us today. Other features include famous quotes and a section on where the players are now. Teens will get the dish on: Milli Vanilli's lip-syncing the Clinton-Lewinsky affair the Biggie and Tupac murders the Kent State shooting the OJ Simpson Murder trial Patty Hearst's kidnapping And more! |
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1210 Lexile. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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1900-1999 |
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Scandals -- United States -- 20th century.
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Scandals -- United States -- 20th century.
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Scandals. |
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United States -- History -- 20th century -- Miscellanea.
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United States -- History -- 20th century -- Miscellanea.
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United States. |
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Electronic books. |
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History.
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Miscellanea.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9780547687339 : $13.99 |
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0547687338 : $13.99 |
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