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Martin H. Levinson. When Good Things Happen to Bad People. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2009.

This book, whose title is a foil to Harold Kushner's international bestseller When Bad Things Happen to Good People, offers a fast-paced, irreverent, factfilled compendium of fifty case studies of notorious villains, from Attila the Hun to Dick Cheney, who triumphed in life despite, or because of, their dastardly deeds.

Are there people that one can label "bad?" Levinson responds to...