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Hillel Levin

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Hillel Levin's reporting has appeared in The Nation, Playboy, New York magazine, Monthly Detroit magazine, Metropolitan Detroit magazine, and Chicago magazine. He was executive editor of Metropolitan Detroit and editor of Chicago. In 1984, he wrote Grand Delusions: The Cosmic Career of John De Lorean (Viking). In 2004, he wrote When Corruption Was King (Carroll & Graf) with Robert Cooley about Cooley's central role in the FBI investigation of mob influence on Chicago's courts and political system. “Area Two,” his Playboy article on Chicago police misconduct, co-written with John Conroy, won a 2011 Headline Club Peter Lisagor Award. His 2010 book In With the Devil (St. Martin’s Press), which he wrote with James Keene, was about Keene's under ...more

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The Story Behind SUBMERGED: How a cold case cleared a killer to hide a family's darkest secret

HOW I LEARNED ABOUT THE CASE

Back in 2006, when I was researching In With the Devil about serial killer Larry Hall, I heard that he was suspected of the 1993 murder of Rayna Rison in La Porte, Indiana. The date of her homicide was during Hall’s murder spree. However, none of the details matched his modus operandi, and I didn’t see how he could have done it on his own. To my knowledge, no one helped Read more of this blog post »
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This is the best book written about the Indian Wars at the end of the nineteenth century. It provides an astute analysis of the weapons and strategies that made the Comanches superior warriors until the advent of rapid-fire guns and the elimination o ...more
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A few years back, I had an enjoyable summer lugging around the paperback, which eventually fell to pieces. As a staff writer for NY Mag, I crossed some of the same paths as Caro without the insight into the bizarre nature of NY State's political cult ...more
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As the pompous potentates of technology make preposterous predictions for such things as Artificial Intelligence, Full Self-Driving, and rockets to Mars, Gwynne’s book on the brief, star-crossed history of rigid airships offers a cautionary antidote. ...more
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