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Great Lives from History: Notorious Lives

Editor: Carl L. Bankston III, Tulane University
ISBN: 978-1-58765-320-9
List Price: $295

January 2007 · 3 volumes · 1,244 pages · 8"x10"

Includes Free Online Access Through 12/31/2011

Great Lives from History: Notorious Lives
Category List

Assassins (57)
A ca, Mehmet Ali
Akbar, Said
Amir, Yigal
Bastien-Thiry, Jean-Marie
Beckwith, Byron De La
Bellingham, John
Booth, John Wilkes
Bremer, Arthur Herman
Brutus, Marcus Junius
Byck, Sam
Caserio, Sante Jeronimo
Chaerea, Cassius
Chapman, Mark David
Clément, Jacques
Corday, Charlotte
Czolgosz, Leon
Felton, John
Fieschi, Giuseppe
Fromme, Lynette
Gérards, Balthazar
Godse, Nathuram Vinayak
Guiteau, Charles Julius
Hinckley, John, Jr.
Irish Invincibles
Jing Ke
John Parricida of Habsburg
Kaplan, Fanya Efimovna
Ketch, Jack
Lawrence, Richard
Looper, Byron
Lopez, Roderigo
M'Naghten, Daniel
Mercader, Ramón
Mijailovic, Mijailo
Niewiadomski, Eligiusz
Oswald, Lee Harvey
Powell, Lewis
Princip, Gavrilo
Ra i , Puniša
Rajaratnam, Thenmuli
Ravaillac, François
Ray, James Earl
Ruby, Jack
Saldívar, Yolanda
Shaw, Clay
Sindercombe, Miles
Singh, Beant
Singh, Satwant
Sirhan Sirhan
Solanas, Valerie
Surratt, Mary
Van der Graaf, Volkert
Weiss, Carl
White, Dan
Yurovsky, Yakov Mikhailovich
Yusupov, Felix
Zangara, Giuseppe

Biblical Figures (7)
Barabbas
Herod Antipas
Herod the Great
Iscariot, Judas
Jezebel
Pilate, Pontius
Salome

Cons and Frauds (30)
Abagnale, Frank W., Jr.
Bangová, Margita
Blonger, Lou
Brinkley, John Richard
Cannon, Billy
Chadwick, Cassie L.
Cooke, Janet
De Angelis, Tino
Divine, Father
Dodd, William
Estes, Billie Sol
Hill, Susanna Mildred
Hory, Elmyr de
Ireland, Megan Louise
Irving, Clifford
Jackson, Shoeless Joe
Keating, Tom
Law, John
Leeson, Nick
Lemoine, Henri
Levine, Dennis
Lustig, Victor
Means, Gaston Bullock
Nostradamus
Orton, Arthur
Palladino, Eusapia
Ponzi, Charles
Rasputin, Grigori Yefimovich
Stavisky, Alexandre
Weil, Joseph

Cult Leaders (15)
Applewhite, Marshall Herff
Berg, David
Erhard, Werner
Fard, Wallace Dodd
Hubbard, L. Ron
Jones, Jim
Koresh, David
Leary, Timothy
Lundgren, Jeffrey
McPherson, Aimee Sempel
Manson, Charles
Moon, Sun Myung
Muhammad, Elijah
Nettles, Bonnie
Shoko, Asahara

Dictators and Tyrants (102)
Abacha, Sani
Afshar, Nadir Shah
Amin, Idi
Antonescu, Ion
Attila
Barre, Muhammad Siad
Bashir, Omar al-
Batista y Zaldívar, Fulgencio
Beria, Lavrenty Pavlovich
Bligh, William
Bokassa, Jean-Bedel
Caligula
Castro, Fidel
Ceausescu, Nicolae
Charles II
Charles VI
Christian VII
Commodus, Lucius Aelius Aurelius
Comstock, Anthony
Cypselus of Corinth
De Kock, Eugene
Díaz, Porfirio
Doe, Samuel K.
Domitian
Duvalier, François
Duvalier, Jean-Claude
Elagabalus
Erik XIV
Ferdinand VI
Franco, Francisco
Fyodor I
Galerius
Galtieri, Leopoldo
Genghis Khan
Hakim, al-
Hirohito
Hitler, Adolf
Ho Chi Minh
Hoxha, Enver, and Nexhmije Hoxha
Hussein, Qusay Saddam
Hussein, Saddam
Isabella II
Ivan the Terrible
Ivan V
Ivan VI
Jaruzelski, Wojciech
Jiang Qing
Joan the Mad
John, King
Justin II
Khomeini, Ruhollah
Khrushchev, Nikita S.
Kim Il Sung
Kim Jong-il
Kun, Béla
Leopold II
Ludwig II
Mao Zedong
Marcos, Ferdinand
Marcos, Imelda
Martinet, Jean
Mengistu Haile Mariam
Metaxas, Ioannis
Milosevic, Slobodan
Mladi , Ratko
Montt, Efraín Ríos
Mugabe, Robert
Mussolini, Benito
Ne Win
Nero
Nicholas I
Niyazov, Saparmurat
Noriega, Manuel
Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza
Pavelic, Ante
Perón, Juan
Peter the Cruel
Phalaris
Pinochet, Augusto
Pobedonostsev, Konstantin Petrovich
Pol Pot
Polycrates
Primo de Rivera, Miguel
Qaddafi, Muammar al-
Robespierre
Salazar, António
Sekom Mobutu Sese
Shi Huangdi
Shikai, Yuan
Somoza García, Anastasio
Stalin, Joseph
Stroessner, Alfredo
Suharto
Sulla, Lucius Cornelius
Taylor, Charles
Than Shwe
Theodora
Tito
Torquemada, Tomás de
Trujillo, Rafael
Vargas, Getúlio
Videla, Jorge Rafael

Gangsters (41)
Adonis, Joe
Anastasia, Albert
Barker, Ma
Buchalter, Louis
Capone, Al
Castellano, Paul
Coll, Vincent
Colombo, Joe
Costello, Frank
Diamond, Legs
Dillinger, John
Donnellys, Black
Escobar, Pablo
Galante, Carmine
Gallo, Joe
Gambino, Carlo
Genovese, Vito
Giancana, Sam
Gigante, Vincent
Gotti, John
Gravano, Sammy
Hill, Henry
Hoffa, Jimmy
Karpis, Alvin
Kelley, George
Kuklinski, Richard
Lansky, Meyer
Luciano, Lucky
Marcello, Carlos
Masseria, Joe
Moran, Bugs
O'Banion, Dion
Profaci, Joseph
Rivas, George
Rothstein, Arnold
Schultz, Dutch
Shakur, Tupac
Siegel, Bugsy
Vidocq, Eugene
Weiss, Hymie
Worth, Adam

Hatemongers and Racists (29)
Carto, Willis A.
Chamberlain, Houston Stewart
Coughlin, Charles E.
Dior, Françoise
Dixon, Thomas, Jr.
Duke, David
Evola, Julius
Faubus, Orval E.
Forrest, Nathan Bedford
Förster-Nietzsche, Elisabeth
Fromm, Paul
Gobineau, Arthur de
Hale, Matthew F.
Irving, David
Kahane, Meir
Le Pen, Jean-Marie
Mathews, Robert Jay
Metzger, Tom
Richard Girnt Butler
Rockwell, George Lincoln
Simmons, William Joseph
Smith, Gerald L. K.
Stoner, J. B.
Taney, Roger Brooke
Tillman, Benjamin
Tyndall, John
Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch
Wallace, George Corley
Weaver, Randy

Murderers and Accused Murderers (48)
Aram, Eugene
Barfield, Velma Margie
Bembenek, Bambi
Bernardo, Paul
Borden, Lizzie
Borgia, Cesare
Bülow, Klaus von
Cenci, Beatrice
Downs, Diane
Du Pont, John Eleuthere
Einhorn, Ira
Ellis, Ruth
Frank, Antoinette
Gilmore, Gary
Goetz, Bernard
Harris, Jean
Hennard, George
Hilley, Marie
Huberty, James Oliver
Kimes, Sante
Kray, Reginald
Kray, Ronald
Leopold, Nathan Freundenthal, Jr.
Lépine, Marc
Loeb, Richard A.
Lucan, Seventh Earl of
MacDonald, Jeffrey
Mallon, Mary
Muhammad, John Allen, and Lee Boyd Malvo
Nelson, Leslie
Richard III
Routier, Darlie
Scott Peterson
Shakur, Assata Olugbala
Sheppard, Sam
Simpson, O. J.
Smart, Pamela Ann
Smith, Madeleine
Smith, Susan
Snyder, Ruth
Stroud, Robert Franklin
Thaw, Harry Kendall
Tucker, Karla Faye
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo
Vlad III the Impaler
Warmus, Carolyn
Whitman, Charles
Yates, Andrea

Nazis (25)
Becker, Elisabeth
Bormann, Martin
Braun, Eva
Darré, Richard Walther
Degrelle, Leon
Eckart, Dietrich
Eichmann, Adolf
Frank, Hans
Goebbels, Joseph
Goebbels, Magda
Göring, Hermann
Hess, Rudolf
Heydrich, Reinhard
Himmler, Heinrich
Jodl, Alfred
Nicholas I
Pierce, William Luther, III
Ribbentrop, Joachim von
Savitri Devi
Schirach, Baldur von
Skorzeny, Otto
Speer, Albert
Streicher, Julius
Wagner, Winifred
Wessel, Horst

Outlaws and Gunslingers (29)
Apache Kid
Armstrong, Johnnie
Barrow, Clyde
Bass, Sam
Biggs, Ronald
Bonney, William H.
Brocious, Curly Bill
Cassidy, Butch
Dalton, Bob
Dalton, Emmett
Doolin, Bill
Earp, Wyatt
Hardin, John Wesley
Hodges, Thomas J.
Holliday, Doc
Hood, Robin
James, Jesse
Kelly, Ned
Ketchum, Tom
King, Rodney
Longbaugh, Harry
Longley, Bill
Murieta, Joaquín
Quantrill, William Clarke
Ringo, Johnny
Starr, Belle
Vaughan, Hank
Veerappan
Younger, Cole

Pirates (20)
Barbarossa, Aruj
Bellamy, Samuel
Beniowski, Maurycy
Berry, Charlotte de
Bonnet, Stede
Bonny, Anne
Cheng I Sao
Dampier, William
Drake, Francis
Kidd, William
Laffite, Jean
Morgan, Sir Henry
O'Malley, Grace
Quelch, John
Rackham, John
Read, Mary
Roberts, Bartholomew
Teach, Edward
Wall, Rachel
You, Dominique

Corrupt Politicians (47)
Ames, Oakes
Baker, Robert
Bilbo, Theodore G.
Burr, Aaron
Cameron, Simon
Cohn, Roy Marcus
Colson, Charles W.
Craxi, Bettino
Dzerzhinsky, Felix Edmundvich
Ehrlichman, John D.
Fall, Albert B.
Folsom, Jim
Fortas, Abe
Fujimori, Alberto
Giuliano, Salvatore
Haldeman, H. R.
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hunt, E. Howard
Hussein, Uday
Kaganovich, Lazar
LaRouche, Lyndon H., Jr.
Laval, Pierre
Liddy, G. Gordon
Long, Huey
McCarthy, Joseph
McCord, James W., Jr.
Mandela, Winnie
Marie-Antoinette
Marozia
Mills, Wilbur
Mitchell, John
Molotov, Vyacheslav
Nhu, Madame
Nixon, Richard
Pendergast, Thomas Joseph
Perez, Leander
Perón, Eva
Petlyura, Symon
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.
Qizhong, Mou
Tweed, William Marcy
Ulrikh, Vasili Vasilievich
Vyshinky, Andrey
Walker, James J.
Yagoda, Genrikh Gregorievich
Yezhov, Nikolay
Zhdanov, Andrey Aleksandrovich

Bad Popes (5)
Alexander VI
Boniface VIII
Clement VII
Leo X
Urban VI

Political Rebels and Revolutionaries (19)
Bonnot, Jules
Fawkes, Guy
Fulvia
Goldman, Emma
Guevara, Che
Haywood, Bill
Hearst, Patty
Hoffman, Abbott "Abbie"
Marat, Jean-Paul
Molly Maguires
Newton, Huey
Oates, Titus
Sacco, Nicola
Trotsky, Leon
Villa, Pancho
Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Vonsiatsky, Anastase
Zapata, Emiliano
Zinovyev, Grigory

Suspect Scientists and Doctors (11)
Ford, Larry C.
Fuchs, Klaus
Hazzard, Linda Burfield
Humphreys, Laud
Kevorkian, Jack
Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich
Mengele, Josef
Milgram, Stanley
Restell, Madame
Shipman, Harold
Swango, Michael

Serial Killers (30)
Ball, Joe
Báthory, Elizabeth
Berkowitz, David
Bianchi, Kenneth
Bundy, Ted
Buono, Angelo, Jr.
Burke, William
Chikatilo, Andrei
Christie, John Reginald Halliday
Cunanan, Andrew
Dahmer, Jeffrey
Davis, Richard Allen
De Salvo, Albert
Fish, Albert
Gacy, John Wayne
Gein, Ed
Holmes, H. H.
Homolka, Karla
Jack the Ripper
Lake, Leonard
Landru, Henri Desiré
Ng, Charles
Petiot, Marcel
Rader, Dennis
Rais, Gilles de
Sobraj, Charles
Speck, Richard
Starkweather, Charles
Todd, Sweeney
Wuornos, Aileen Carol

Sexual Predators (13)
Arbuckle, Roscoe
Barrows, Sydney Biddle
Borgia, Lucrezia
Buttafuoco, Joey
Collin, Frank Joseph
Everleigh, Ada
Exner, Judith Campbell
Fleiss, Heidi
Gauthe, Gilbert
Letourneau, Mary Kay
McMartin, Virginia
Porter, Father James
Sade, Marquis de

Traitors and Spies (39)
Alcibiades of Athens
Ames, Aldrich
Arnold, Benedict
Axis Sally
Blunt, Anthony
Boyce, Christopher John
Boyd, Belle
Burgess, Guy
Cairncross, John
Catiline
Chambers, Whittaker
Church, Benjamin
Cushman, Pauline
Darlan, François
Darnand, Joseph
Doriot, Jacques
Esterhazy, Ferdinand Walsin
Hanssen, Robert Philip
Hiss, Alger
Josephus, Flavius
Joyce, William
Kawashima, Yoshiko
Lee, Andrew Daulton
Lee, Charles
Lindh, John Walker
Maclean, Donald Duart
Mata Hari
Pétain, Philippe
Philby, Kim
Pollard, Jonathan
Puyi
Quisling, Vidkun
Rosenberg, Ethel
Rosenberg, Julius
Sir Oswald Mosley
Tokyo Rose
Vlasov, Andrey
Walker, William
Wilkinson, James

Terrorists (21)
Abu Nidal
Atta al-Sayed, Mohammed
Baader, Andreas
Bin Laden, Osama
Goldstein, Baruch
Kaczynski, Ted
Khalifa, Mohammed Jamal
Khieu Samphan
McVeigh, Timothy
Mahler, Horst
Meinhof, Ulrike
Mohammed, Khalid Shaikh
Moussaoui, Zacarias
Nichols, Terry
Ramírez Sánchez, Ilich
Rudolph, Eric
Shigenobu, Fusako
Ta Mok
Yousef, Ramzi
Zarqawi, Abu Musab al-
Zawahiri, Ayman al-

Thieves and Bank Robbers (19)
Brodie, William
Cartouche
Charrière, Henri
Cooper, D. B.
Cutpurse, Moll
Devi, Phoolan
Duval, Claude
Floyd, Charles Arthur
Mandelbaum, Frederika
Mesrine, Jacques
Nelson, Baby Face
Parker, Bonnie
Peace, Charles
Rob Roy
Sheppard, Jack
Starr, Henry
Sutton, Willie
Turpin, Dick
Wild, Jonathan

War Criminals (8)
Calley, William L., Jr.
Custer, George A.
Dönitz, Karl
Dyer, Reginald
Karadzic, Radovan
Koiso Kuniaki
Tojo, Hideki
Wirz, Henry

White-Collar Criminals (11)
Bakker, Jim
Beck, Dave
Boesky, Ivan
Calvi, Roberto
Colfax, Schuyler
DeLorean, John
Ebbers, Bernard
Fisk, Jim
Frankel, Martin
Gould, Jay
Milken, Michael

Witches and Occultists (14)
Blight, Tamsin
Butters, Mary
Clutterbuck, Dorothy
Crowley, Aleister
Joan of Navarre
Jones, Margaret
Kyteler, Lady Alice
Laveau, Marie
LaVey, Anton Szandor
Newton, Florence
Pentreath, Dolly
Sawyer, Elizabeth
Shipton, Mother
Wytte, Joan


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