Bøger af David Bushman

Doctor Who fans love to argue: Who's the best Doctor? Who's the best showrunner? And here in this anthology of essays, a roster of Who experts present their arguments for who's the best companion, and come up with some surprising nominations.  "Don't be alone, Doctor," Amy Pond tells the Eleventh Doctor in "The Angels Take Manhattan," and of course the irony is that in one sense the Doctor is always alone--a Gallifreyan whose regenerative powers mean he will outlast nearly everyone near and dear to him -- while at the same time he is rarely without one or more trusted companion by his side. This is a book about those companions--those fortunate few who accompany him on his journeys through space and time on--to quote the Ninth Doctor--"the trip of a lifetime." The editors of The Villains of Doctor Who are back with a new anthology of essays--paeans, really--to Donna Noble, Sarah Jane Smith, Rose Tyler, Wilfred Mott, Chang Lee, Clara Oswald, and more. Did your favorite companion make the cut? You're going to have to read to find out! Edited by David Bushman (The Villains of Doctor Who) and Ken Deep (Showrunner of L.I Doctor Who Con) Essays by: Shaun Lyon, Joseph Dougherty, Mackenzie Flohr, Amanda-Rae Prescott, Scott Ryan, Gina R Rosich, PhD, MSW, Joshua Lou Friedman, Yee Jee Tso, Sophie Aldred, Paul J. Salamoff, Charlie Ross, Lucy Chase Williams, Amy Krell, Edwin Thrower, and Barnaby Edwards

The first-ever detailed account of one of the most notorious cases of police corruption in New York State history, the 1999-200 FBI investigation into the Schenectady Police Department, resulting in the conviction of four officers, the suicide of a fifth, and the forced resignation of the chief, who soon after was convicted for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.Finalist for the 2024 Silver Falchion Award. Stranger things do tend to happen in Schenectady—once a booming metropolis nicknamed the “City That Lights and Hauls the World” thanks to the dominating presence of General Electric and the American Locomotive Company, though those days are ancient history. GE has nearly abandoned the city, and ALCO closed up shot over fifty years ago. Hence, the title of this book: Forget It, Jake, It’s Schenectady:The True Story Behind “The Place Behind the Pines", a nod to the bleak conclusion of the classic film Chinatown, one of cinema’s most devastating expressions of abject resignation and defeat. A chance meeting between onetime Schenectady Police Chief Gregory Kaczmarek and author David Bushman in a Lyft car that Kaczmarek was driving was the genesis of this book, originally intended to track the rise and fall of a veteran cop with what appear to be two defining traits—an almost inhuman capacity for perseverance and a truly remarkable ability to attract notoriety and criticism. However, as the author’s research—including interviews with over two dozen people who lived through the events depicted in these pages—progressed, the book mutated into something else: a consideration of the recent history of the entire department—both its failures and successes—especially during Kaczmarek’s six-year reign as chief, but also involving such celebrated cases as the arrests and convictions of child killer Marybeth Tinning and serial rapist-murderer Lemuel Smith, who claimed to be controlled by the spirit of his deceased brother. In one of the more notorious cases of police corruption in New York State in recent times, the FBI set its sights on the Schenectady PD in 1999, launching an investigation that would eventually result in the imprisonment of four officers, the suicide of a fifth, and the resignation of Kaczmarek, who himself would wind up behind bars ten years later after copping a plea to criminal possession of cocaine. The events of this period loosely form the basis of the 2012 crime drama The Place Beyond the Pines—a literal translation of the Mohawk word “Schau-naugh-ta-da”—which starred Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, and Eva Mendes and was cowritten by Ben Coccio, who grew up in Schenectady, and Derek Cianfrance, who also directed, and whose wife likewise passed her wonder years there.