Biographic profiles of the men and women who — for better or for worse — helped write the pages of human history.
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Charles Cullen - America's Most Notorious Angel of Death

Harper Lee - The Reclusive Author

Joe McCarthy: The Original Conspiracy Theorist

Captain William Kidd - From Privateer to Pirate Hunter to Pirate

Iron Felix Dzerzhinsky - Head of the CheKa, Architect of the Red Terror

John Tyler: The Most Hated President of the 19th Century

J. Edgar Hoover - America’s Top Cop or Chief Inquisitor?

Richard Pryor - The Gold Standard of Comedy

Nathanael Greene - The Fighting Quaker Who Became Washington's Most Steadfast Officer

Dag Hammarskjold: The Man Who Built the United Nations

John Gotti - The Teflon Don of the New York Mafia

Mel Fisher: The Treasure Hunting King of Key West

The Harvey’s Casino Bomber; The Most Bizarre True Crime Story in American History

The Fifth Dynasty of Egypt - The Cult of Ra, the Sun God

Dietrich Eckart - The Poet Who Mentored Adolf Hitler

Clovis I - Kings of the Franks Founding Father of France

Frank Lucas - The True Story of the American Gangster

Wernher von Braun - Journey to the Moon

James A Garfield: The ‘What-if?’ President

Bernard Montgomery: The Spartan General

Tokugawa Ieyasu - Japan’s Greatest Shogun

Alfred the Great: The King Who Defeated the Vikings and Helped Unite England

Hammurabi: The Ancient Lawgiver Who Created the Babylonian Empire

Buffalo Bill: The Wild West’s Greatest Showman

Babe Ruth: American Sports Icon

George Custer: An American Leonidas

Benjamin Harrison: The Forgotten President

George “Baby Face” Nelson - Face of an Angel, Soul of a Devil

Jack Johnson America's First Black Sports Superstar

Eliot Ness: The Untouchable Lawman

Joseph Pulitzer: The Birth of Yellow Journalism

Grover Cleveland: America’s Only Double President

Alfred Dreyfus: A Miscarriage of Justice

Pompey the Great: Rome’s Most Illustrious General, Part II

Pompey the Great: Rome’s Most Illustrious General, Part I

Annie Oakley: The Greatest Sharpshooter of the Wild West

Opportunity Rover: Robots on Mars

George Remus: America's Prohibition King

George Carlin: Class Clown, Clear-Eyed Cynic, and Counterculture Crusader

'Chevalier’ John Taylor: The Eye Surgeon Who Blinded (And Possibly Killed) JS Bach

George Harrison: The Not-So-Quiet Beatle

Mobutu Sese Seko: Corruption and Murder in the Heart of Africa

Betty White: America's Sassy Grandmother

William Desmond Taylor: Hollywood's First Murder Mystery

Belle Gunness: America's Most Ruthless Female Killer

Allan Pinkerton: America’s Most Famous Private Eye

John Brown: The Man Who Ignited the American Civil War

William McKinley: Building the American Century
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