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 | | A fascinating barometer of shifts in society as well as the law, "Crimes of the Century" (Northeastern University Press, November, 1998) was written by Leigh B. Bienen, a senior lecturer at Northwestern University School of Law, and Gilbert Geis, professor emeritus in the department of criminology, law and society at the University of California, Irvine. |
 | | By 1937, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, an illegal immigrant from Germany, a despised country at the time, was sent to the electric chair. |
 | | Richard Nixon, a first-term congressman and junior member of HUAC, who despised Hiss'haughty style, helped Chambers every step of the way, pursuing Hiss with a vengeance that would mark Nixon as a brilliant political strategist. |
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