So Much Bad in the Best of Us

Acknowledgments
Introduction
An Auspicious Beginning
A Budding Career and a Blossoming Criminal
Diversification: Social Networks, Political Influence, and the Importance of Family
The Founding of the Order of Owls
Legal Trouble: The Talbot Brothers on the Defensive
Leona Mason Tries to Put Him Down
Death and Resurrection
Unwanted Owls
A Profit in Syphilis
An Owl Rebellion and the Charitable Institutions that Weren't
Can't Keep Out of Trouble and Other Odd Behavior
Not Just Owls: Talbot Cultivates an Interest in Exotic Birds (the Kind with Feathers)
"She Is Certainly Having a Fine Time"
"Guilty as Sin": Talbot Is Sent to Leavenworth
The Ex-Convict: Talbot Is No Longer Supreme
A Quieter Life
A Fiery Death
The Fate of the Order of Owls
Talbot's Legacy
Postscript
Appendix A: Order of the Owls Handbook
Appendix B: The Character and Life of John W. Talbot Exposed by an Outraged Woman
Appendix C: The Question
Notes
Bibliography

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• Crime real
• História local
• História das Américas
• Maçonaria e sociedades secretas
• Crime corporativo
• Crime organizado

Order of the Owls; Supreme Owl; George Beroth; J. Lott Losey; fraternal organizations; white slavery; misogyny; true crime; murder; organized crime; violence; secret