Reviews for Investigation of White-Collar Crime A Manual for Law Enforcement Agencies

The average rating for Investigation of White-Collar Crime A Manual for Law Enforcement Agencies based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-11-29 00:00:00 Mary Darwin The King of the Wild Frontier was no great writer, but he certainly lived through some interesting times. The prose style is conversational, with often fascinating outbreaks of nineteenth-century backwoods slang (Davy gets "plaguy thirsty" and knocks back "a leetle of the creater"), although the constant military campaigning of the first half can get a little repetetive. The matter-of-fact way in which he writes about slaughtering Native Americans can be quite shocking, the more so for being described in this down-home laid-back style. At one point during the Creek War, his unit burns forty-six Indians alive in a house; the next day, running short of food, they discover a stash of potatoes in the cellar of the building. Crockett remarks that hunger compelled us to eat them, though I had a little rather not, if I could have helped it, for the oil of the Indians we had burned up on the day before had run down on them, and they looked like they had been stewed with fat meat. Jesus, what a detail. There are a few times in the text where such things reach across the years and give you quite a shock. (Later he goes a little way to redeeming himself by speaking out against the Indian Removal Act.) When he wrote this, he was a Congressman with a not-unrealistic chance at the presidency. There are several passages of political grandstanding which haven't dated all that well, unless political history is your forte. But really the overriding feeling when you read these expressions of political ambition is one of pathos, knowing that soon after the autobiography was published, this man with all his big dreams lost his seat in Congress, and headed ultimately towards Texas – and the Alamo…. (Jan 2014)

Review # 2 was written on 2013-12-30 00:00:00 Nye Lee Davy Crocket was such an impressive man that, after being executed soon after the Battle of the Alamo, he was still able to include details of the battle in his own retrospective autobiography. I'm guessing a ghostwriter or two had a hand here. Irregardless, the frontiersman of American legend and lore lays out his life in a very homespun, fireside style recollectin'. Highly enjoyable stuff here! Old-timey yarn after old-timey yarn is woven into as colorful a tapestry as you could hope for from a mostly illiterate backcountry man of his own making. His Own Story (which I think was titled My Own Story early on) starts with Crocket's boyhood and upbringing. This is just as interesting as the battles and woodsman stories of his later life, as it gives the reader a deeper understanding of what made the man. No matter the age through out the timeline of Crocket's life, his descriptions are sparing but adequate. His narrative often merely touches upon a subject or whole swath of an age, but once he gets into a story, he gets into it! Lively accounts of battles with the Indians and 600lb bears are relayed with so much excitement it's as good as watching a movie! Highly recommended to those already interested in this interesting man!