MIKE STANTON

COP: Buddy, I think this is a whorehouse.BUDDY CIANCI: Now I know why they made you a detective.Welcome to Providence, Rhode Island, where corruption is entertainment and Mayor Buddy Cianci presided over the longest-running lounge act in American politics. In The Prince of Providence, Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Mike Stanton tells a classic story of wiseguys, feds, and politicians on a carousel of crime and redemption.Buddy Cianci was part urban visionary, part Tony Sopranoa flawed political genius in the mold of Huey Long and James Michael Curley. His lust for power cost him his marriage, his family, and close friendships. Yet he also revitalized the city of Providence, where ethnic factions jostle with old-moneyed New Englanders and black-clad artists from the Rhode Island School of Design rub shoulders with scam artists from City Hall. For nearly a quarter of a century, Cianci dominated this uneasy melting pot. During his first administration, twenty-two political insiders were convicted of corruption. In 1984, Cianci resigned after pleading guilty to felony assault, for torturing a man he suspected of sleeping with his estranged wife. In 1990, in a remarkable comeback, Cianci was elected mayor once again; he went on to win national acclaim for transforming a dying industrial city into a trendy arts and tourism mecca.But in 2001, a federal corruption probe dubbed Operation Plunder Dome threatened to bring the curtain down on Cianci once and for all. Mike Stanton takes readers on a remarkable journey through the underside of city life, into the bizarre world of the mayor and his supporting cast, including: Buckles Melise, the city official in charge of vermin control, who bought Providence twice as much rat poison as the city of Cleveland, which was at the time four times as large, and wound up increasing Providences rat population. During a garbage strike, Buckles sledgehammered one city employee and stuck his thumb in anothers eye. Cianci would later describe this as great public policy. Anthony the Saint St. Laurent, a major Rhode Island bookmaker and loan shark, who tried to avoid prison by citing his medical need for forty bowel irrigations a day, thus earning himself the nickname Public Enema Number One. Dennis Aiken, a celebrated FBI agent and public corruption expert, who asked to be sent to the Louisiana of the North, where he enlisted an undercover businessman to expose the corrupt secrets of Ciancis City Hall.The Prince of Providence is a colorful and engrossing account of one of the most tragicomic figures in modern American lifeand the city he transformed.

Convivir con el autismo está dirigido a los familiares y amigos de personas autistas, así como a los profesionales que trabajan con ellas. Basándose en su experiencia personal, Stanton nos ofrece una sincera descripcion de lo que realmente significa convivir con el autismo para todas las personas implicadas. Este libro constituye una inestimable fuente de informacion y consejos para los profesionales que trabajan con estos niños y proporciona animo y apoyo a las familias de niños autistas. El resultado es una lectura amena y gratificante que une los conocimientos de Stanton acerca del autismo con su experiencia profesional. Sus ideas son estimulantes, el estilo accesible, e incluso el humor es a la vez gratificante y desdramatizador.

Unbeaten is one of the best sports books Ive read in years. Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life.Rocky Marciano accomplished a feat that eluded legendary champions like Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey, Muhammad Ali, and Mike Tyson: he never lost a professional fight. When he retired in 1956, his record was a perfect 49-0.Unbeaten is the revelatory biography of one of the greatest heavyweights of all time. Marciano rose from abject poverty and a life of petty crime to become heavyweight champion and one of the most famous faces of his era. He dominated boxing in the decade following the Second World War with a devastating punch, which he nicknamed the Suzie Q.But perfection came at a price.Pulitzer Prize-winner Mike Stanton tells the story of Marcianos pursuit of greatness through the era of guys and dolls, hustlers and gamblers, glamorous celebrities and notorious mobsters. But boxing had its dark side, particularly at a time when Mafia mob bosses like Blinky Palermo and Frankie Carbo wielded immense power behind the scenes.Marciano retired while still in his prime, weighed down by the mobs influence in the sport he loved. For the last decade of his life, he wandered America, disillusioned, untrusting, hiding his money, cheating on his wife, consorting with the mobsters he had loathed for corrupting his sport, until his death in a plane crash in 1969, the night before his 46th birthday.Unbeaten by Mike Stanton is the story of a remarkable champion, a sport that was rotten to its core, and a country that may have expected too much from its heroes.