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		<title>Garden &#038; Gun Features &#8220;Dig Me a Grave&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 04:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["Dig Me a Grave, cowritten with Shaun Assael, is Harpootlian’s account of that prosecution intertwined with a chronicle of Gaskins’s crimes. It’s a haunted and haunting read."]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Sonny&#8221;  is a  Boston Globe‘s Best (Sports) Book of 2016</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2016 19:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Assael’s account of Liston’s life in a city full of racial tensions, mob connections, and heroin is illuminating, though not conclusive, regarding the heavyweight champ’s last days and mysterious overdose death. Check out other books on the list at www.bostonglobe.com »]]></description>
		
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		<title>NY Journal of Books Review Sonny Liston</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2016 20:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Author Shaun Assael wades into Liston’s world with a hawk’s eye and the nose of bloodhound. The Murder of Sonny Liston is many things: a biography, a story of sixties Las Vegas, and an investigation into a suspicious death that was never conducted. Despite being nonfiction, The Murder of Sonny Liston tells a good story. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sunday Times Crime Club Star Pick: “Well researched and as gripping as the best noir fiction.”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[★ STAR PICK ★ NON-FICTION The Murder of Sonny Liston by Shaun Assael Boxer Sonny Liston dealt drugs in Las Vegas before his wife found him dead, apparently from an overdose, in early 1971. Assael paints a vivid picture of the lawless desert town blooming into a gambling and entertainment mecca as he delves into Liston’s own complicated [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Forbes: A Film Noir Sort Of Trip Into Sonny Liston&#8217;s Mysterious Life And Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2016 18:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This is the book for you.&#8221; &#8211; Frank Miniter, Forbes I always had this negative feeling about Sonny Liston, as he had beaten my hero, a man I was too young to ever see fight, but who taught me to box—Floyd Patterson. And Liston’s reputation was never that of a good man, but only of a hard [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>theLeader (UK) Sports Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2016 17:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sonny Liston’s tale should be a compelling, ultimately uplifting, rags-to-riches one; the story of a man who rose from the depths of Depression America to become heavyweight champion of the world. All of the necessary ingredients are all there. He was one of 25 (no, that’s not an error) children born around 1931 to an [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Irish Times: Story of Sonny Liston’s death makes good reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2016 17:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Compelling…the most forensic investigation yet…Excellent book read[s] like an Elmore Leonard novel.&#8221; &#8211; Dave Hannigan, Irish Times His final resting place is in Row 1 of the Garden of Peace section of Paradise Gardens Cemetery, hard by the Las Vegas Airport. Inscribed on a one foot by two foot bronze tablet are the words “Charles Sonny [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Sunday Times (UK) Reviews &#8220;Sonny&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2016 17:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Readers of James Ellroy’s Underworld USA Trilogy will feel very much at home.” &#8211; Dan Jones, Sunday Times One night in the 1960s, a Las Vegas police officer was doing his rounds in the well-heeled neighbourhood of Paradise Palms when he was accosted by a female resident. She was a neighbour of the sometime world-champion [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>NY Post: Was legendary boxer Sonny Liston murdered?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2016 02:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Larry Getlen asks this question in an early review: Sonny Liston was a ferocious fighter, the heavyweight champion of the world and the man Cassius Clay beat to win the title for the first time, igniting his own legend. And yet, outside of boxing, Liston was a haunted man, initiated early into a life of crime [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Men&#8217;s Journal: &#8220;Murder of Sonny Liston&#8221; is Best Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2016 16:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Men&#8217;s Journal has listed The Murder of Sonny Liston as one of the seven best books released this month: Even before he beat Floyd Patterson in 1962 to claim the world championship, boxer Sonny Liston was considered one of the sport’s greatest, and most controversial, heavyweights. His death in 1970 was ruled the result of a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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