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Howie Carr

Howie Carr is a American conservative political author and Boston radio legend, having held the mic at WRKO for more than 20 years. Today, he’s a member of the National Radio Hall of Fame, and consistently ranked by Talkers Magazine, as one of America’s top radio talk show hosts. He is also an award winning front-page columnist for the Boston Herald.

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Stalked by Whitey Bulger

For several years, after he wrote a series of exposes about the connections between organized crime and politics in Boston, Howie was at the top of the serial killer's "Hit Parade." The gangsters plotted how to murder him, threatened him, and generally tried to intimidate him. Howie discusses the careers of "The Brothers Bulger," the title of his best-selling book, and how seriously he took the mobsters' threats to shoot him from ambush or blow him up with a basketball.

The One-Party State

Howie has been covering city, state and national politics for almost 30 years. In this speech, he discusses, in a humorous, anecdote-filled presentation, the price the state pays for its overwhelming domination by one political party. Howie skewers them all, Democrats and Republicans alike.

Famous Kennedys I Have Known

From Honey Fitz to Patches, Howie is a wealth of information on 100 years of all things Kennedy.

The Media -- Old and New

Howie discusses the changing world of the media -- the fragmentation of the audience, the future of print (especially newspapers) in an Internet age, and the continuing decline of the broadcast media, radio and TV. Howie's expertise on this subject in unparalleled. He has successfully workedin all major media -- radio, TV, newspapers and magazines, in addition to a best-selling book and a role in the John Travolta movie, A Civil Action.

Do You Know Who I Am?

A short, light history of Bay State politicians pulling rank on everybody else.

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What Really Happened: How Donald J. Trump Saved America From Hillary Clinton

What Really Happened: How Donald J. Trump Saved America From Hillary Clinton

New York Times bestselling author Howie Carr chronicles the historic election of President Donald J. Trump. This is the inside, no-holds-barred story of Trump's rise from a celebrity business mogul to the White House as told by a veteran journalist who was in the middle of the 2016 presidential campaign from day one.

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The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century

The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century

This fresh account of Massachusettss infamous Bulger brothers unveils a stunning criminal alliance, and with its dual biography format, goes deeper than the New York Times bestselling Black Mass. For the first time, journalist Howie Carr reveals the real story behind the infamous Bulgers; two brothers from South Boston who grew up to control a state. With political corruption on one side and deadly force on the other, the Bulgers shared a diabolic and destructive alliance for decades. James Whitey Bulger, the bad son, blazed a murderous trail to become Bostons most feared mobster and remains one of the FBIs Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. William Billy Bulger, the good son, wielded the gavel as president of the Massachusetts State Senate and the University of Massachusetts, but was eventually forced from both positions. The parallel stories of these two brothers, rich in anecdote and shocking in their revelations, read like an unholy hybrid of All the Kings Men and The Godfather.

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Hitman: The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano: Whitey Bulger's Enforcer and the Most Feared Gangster in the Underworld

Hitman: The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano: Whitey Bulger's Enforcer and the Most Feared Gangster in the Underworld

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Brothers Bulger comes the story of Johnny Martorano, whom the FBI called "the most feared man in the underworld." Martin Scorsese's The Departed barely touched his story, but radio talk show sensation, crime reporter, and Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr takes us into the heart of the life of Johnny Martorano. For two decades, Martorano struck fear into anyone remotely connected to his world. His partnership with Whitey Bulger and the infamous Winter Hill Gang led to twenty murders, for which Johnny would serve only twelve years in prison. Carr also looks at the politicians and FBI agents who aided Johnny and Whitey and at the flamboyant city of Boston which they so ruthlessly ruled. But most of all, Carr depicts Johnny -- the most fascinating crime figure Carr has ever encountered. A plethora of paradoxes, he was Mr. Mom by day and man-about-town by night. Surrounded by fast-living politicians, sports celebrities, and show-biz entertainers, Johnny was charismatically colorful - as charming as he was frightening. After all, he was, in the end, a hitman.

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Hard Knocks

Hard Knocks

Following the lead of Boston crime thriller writers like Dennis Lehane and Chuck Hogan, New York Times bestselling author and radio sensation Howie Carr delivers a hard-hitting tale of survival, betrayal, deceit, and murder...in other words, a fictional odyssey through the last thirty years of crime in Boston. Jack Reilly, a dodgy ex-Boston cop, is trying to make ends meet as a private investigator. When a client is killed, execution style, Reilly finds himself in a whole world of pain. Someone wants him dead-but why? To find out, Reilly must weed through thirty years of duplicity, corruption, and killing...a web of politicians dirtier than mobsters and criminals nobler than senators. He needs to uncover the dangerous truth behind the bribery, blood, and backdoor deals that define the highest levels of both organized crime and State House politics-before it's too late.

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Rifleman

Rifleman

Stevie "the Rifleman" Flemmi was, for forty years, one of the most feared gangsters in Boston, and for much of that time, he was the partner of Whitey Bulger, the sixteen-year fugitive with a $2 million reward on his head who was captured in 2011. Flemmi has been convicted of ten murders and took the Fifth Amendment when asked about ten others. His cohort, Bulger, is charged with nineteen more. Rifleman is the story of Flemmi's life of crime, as told to federal and state law enforcement after he pleaded guilty in 2003. The original document on which the book is based is called a "DEA 6," and it ran 146 single-spaced pages, covering dozens of extortions, assaults, and murders, including two of his girlfriends, one of whom was also his common law stepdaughter. Supplementing the text are close to 300 photographs from Carr's own collection. This is truly a must-have for any true crime fan.

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