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Aiming to understand the ways in which depictions of the Nazi genocide relate to the societies that produce them, Holocaust Cinema Since 2000 combines detailed analyses of films such as The Unknown Soldier (2006), Waltz with Bashir (2008), and Inglourious Basterds (2009) with a comprehensive understanding of political events in Israel, Germany, and the US, to explore the relationship between post-2000 Holocaust Cinema and formations of national identity. Despite continued concerns about the aesthetic choices used to represent the crimes committed by the Third Reich, and, more specifically, how this informs the cultural memory of these events, the production of Holocaust films has increased exponentially since the end of the Second World War. Gary Jenkins demonstrates that, in their challenging of the dominant values that underpin such formations, a number of recent Holocaust films reveal a crisis in collective identity in these three countries.

Blackmail. Bombs. Hit teams and executions. Skimming of casino profits. Illegal sports gaming. These tactics were "business as usual" for members of the mafia in the United States in the 1970s. But a team of F.B.I. agents and Kansas City Police Department detectives decided, in those corrupt days, to take advantage of new court-ordered wiretap privileges to curtail some of the graft in that city. The result of those efforts was the end of the mob's domination of Las Vegas casino operations, the imprisonment of key players and the decimation of the mafia's influence in Kansas City, Chicago, Milwaukee and Las Vegas.An ex-cop from Kansas City was part of the team that tackled the mafia corruption. He compiled this account of the surveillance efforts by including verbatim wiretap transcripts that tell the story of those days in the words of the mob's key operatives themselves.Leaving Vegas takes you behind the scenes, detailing the drama from the point of view of the surveillance teams listening in on the conversations, as well as providing the flavor of the relationships between the mobsters. Prison sentences and an end to the bulk of the mob violence in Kansas City wrote a "happy" ending to this story. Jenkins provides plenty of context to this milestone investigation, as well as photos of the key players and surveillance locations.

In Gary Jenkins' second historical novel (John Brown and the Last Train) about the Kansas Underground Railroad, he tells about how an UGRR conductor is taken into the jails of Weston, Platte City and St. Joseph, Missouri until the Immortal 10 ride to his rescue. The Immortal 10 is based on the 1860 memoir, The Narrative of John Doy, of Lawrence, Kansas. In this exciting story of an interrupted trip up the Underground Railroad the author reveals the dark and dismal life of the Missouri slave trade, ending with an exciting rescue by ten brave men of Kansas. The author combines historical facts with human elements and rich dialogue to reveal life along the border between the Kansas Territory, free territory, and Missouri, a slave state.