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Bootlegger Heaven
Author | : Kevin Corley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-05-25 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780578922386 |
A sequel to 13 Steps for Charlie Birger, Bootlegger Heaven tells the incredible story of the bloody southern Illinois region known as Little Egypt from the 1920s through the 1940s. This novel is so closely based on historic evidence, the actual events are listed in the back of the book.
Bootleggers and Borders
Author | : Stephen T. Moore |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2014-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 080326786X |
Between 1920 and 1933 the issue of prohibition proved to be the greatest challenge to Canada-U.S. relations. When the United States adopted national prohibition in 1920—ironically, just as Canada was abandoning its own national and provincial experiments with prohibition—U.S. tourists and dollars promptly headed north and Canadian liquor went south. Despite repeated efforts, Americans were unable to secure Canadian assistance in enforcing American prohibition laws until 1930. Bootleggers and Borders explores the important but surprisingly overlooked Canada-U.S. relationship in the Pacific Northwest during Prohibition. Stephen T. Moore maintains that the reason Prohibition created such an intractable problem lies not with the relationship between Ottawa and Washington DC but with everyday operations experienced at the border level, where foreign relations are conducted according to different methods and rules and are informed by different assumptions, identities, and cultural values. Through an exploration of border relations in the Pacific Northwest, Bootleggers and Borders offers insight into not only the Canada-U.S. relationship but also the subtle but important differences in the tactics Canadians and Americans employed when confronted with similar problems. Ultimately, British Columbia’s method of addressing temperance provided the United States with a model that would become central to its abandonment and replacement of Prohibition.
True Crime: Michigan
Author | : Tobin T. Buhk |
Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2011-06-07 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 0811745104 |
Includes Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance, the Bath School Massacre, the Purple Gang of Detroit, and many more.
Chicago Assassin
Author | : Richard Shmelter |
Publisher | : Cumberland House Publishing |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781581826180 |
The city of Chicago led the nation when it came to gangland violence during the Prohibition era. As a result, many infamous, unforgettable personalities became a part of America's criminal history. Chicago Assassin is the story of "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn, one of the people responsible for putting much of the roar into the Roaring Twenties. His family immigrated to Chicago from Sicily in 1906, as he grew up in the city's slums and later took up boxing as "Battling" Jack McGurn. After avenging his father's death by killing the three hit men responsible, he came to the attention of Al Capone, who invited him into his organization, known as the Chicago Outfit. There he rose to power and was one of the most feared members Capone's organizations, with more than twenty-five known kills for the mob. "Battling" Jack McGurn became so adept with the Thompson submachine gun that he quickly became known as "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn.
The Villainous Stage
Author | : Marvin Lachman |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2014-11-19 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476618755 |
Live theatre was once the main entertainment medium in the United States and the United Kingdom. The preeminent dramatists and actors of the day wrote and performed in numerous plays in which crime was a major plot element. This remains true today, especially with the longest-running shows such as The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables and Sweeney Todd. While hundreds of books have been published about crime fiction in film and on television, the topic of stage mysteries has been largely unexplored. Covering productions from the 18th century to the 2013-2014 theatre season, this is the first history of crime plays according to subject matter. More than 20 categories are identified, including whodunits, comic mysteries, courtroom dramas, musicals, crook plays, social issues, Sherlock Holmes, and Agatha Christie. Nearly 900 plays are described, including the reactions of critics and audiences.
Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place
Author | : Malcolm Lowry |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 519 |
Release | : 2012-11-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1453286314 |
Seven stories and novellas by the author of Under the Volcano, a master of twentieth-century fiction. For fans of the novel Under the Volcano, this collection of stories—many of them published for the first time posthumously—provides great insight into the author’s genius. The stories range from heartfelt tragedy to exuberant triumph. In the novella “Through the Panama,” a burned-out, alcoholic writer tries to make sense of the literature that has kept him afloat while the pulse of his life grows harder to distinguish. In “The Forest Path to Spring,” a couple that has survived hell finds new life in the seclusion of a vast forest. And in “The Bravest Boat,” a young boy sends a message across the ocean to an unknown recipient. Together, these stories reveal a writer who traveled widely, observed keenly, and maintained an engrossing literary style that still reverberates today.
Detroit
Author | : Richard Bak |
Publisher | : Gale Cengage |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Detroit (Mich.) |
ISBN | : |
The story of Detroit is told through the eyes, accomplishments and, often, anguish of the people who lived there over the past three hundred years. The interesting and informative text of Detroit Across Three Centuries is heavily supported by art, artifacts, and photos that not only give the reader a glimpse of the citys past, but a look at its present and its future.