Secrets of the Great Whiskey Ring

Secrets of the Great Whiskey Ring
Author: John McDonald
Publisher:
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1880
Genre: Internal revenue
ISBN:

Scandal usually traced to President Grant's secretary, O.E. Babcock, but McDonald accuses the President of participation. The ring appropriated over 1.2 million dollars in the state of Missouri.

John McDonald and the Whiskey Ring

John McDonald and the Whiskey Ring
Author: Edward S. Cooper
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2016-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1683930134

The most flamboyant, consistently dishonest racketeer was Supervisor of Internal Revenue John McDonald, whose organization defrauded the federal government of millions of dollars. When President Grant was asked why he appointed McDonald supervisor of internal revenue he responded, “I was aware that he was not an educated man, but he was a man that had seen a great deal of the world and of people, and I would not call him ignorant exactly, he was illiterate.” McDonald organized and ran the Whiskey Ring but he always credited Grant with the initiation of the Ring declaring that the president “actually stood god-father at its christening.” The demise of the Ring rivals anything that the real or fictional Elliot Ness and his “Untouchables” ever accomplished during the prohibition era in America.

Secrets of the Great Whiskey Ring

Secrets of the Great Whiskey Ring
Author: John McDonald
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781340993610

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Grant in Saint Louis

Grant in Saint Louis
Author: Walter B. Stevens
Publisher: Applewood Books
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2008-02-21
Genre: Saint Louis (Mo.)
ISBN: 1557090858

Walter B. Stevens was a Missouri historian and newspaperman who served as city editor and then Washington correspondent for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. In this 1916 volume, originally published by The Franklin Club of Saint Louis and limited to one hundred copies, Stevens provides an anecdotal history of Grant in St. Louis based upon letters from the manuscript collection of William K. Bixby, a noted industrialist and collector with strong links to the St. Louis area. Of particular interest is information on Grant's interest in the Gravois Road property he had acquired and how his St. Louis connections embroiled him in the Whisky Ring scandal.

Pulitzer's Post Dipatch

Pulitzer's Post Dipatch
Author: Julian S. Rammelkamp
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2015-12-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1400878705

Professor Rammelkamp examines the St. Louis Post-Dispatch during its formative years, seeing it as the foundation of the highly successful World and of Pulitzer's career itself. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Wicked Milwaukee

Wicked Milwaukee
Author: Yance Marti
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2018-10-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 143966546X

Local historian Yance Marti uncovers the rough and rowdy blackguards who once made Milwaukee infamous. The Cream City of yesteryear was a dingy haven for scofflaws and villains. Red-light districts peppered downtown's landscape, but none had the enduring allure of River Street, where Kitty Williams and Mary Kingsley operated high-class brothels. Chinese opium dens flourished in the backrooms of laundries. The demise of the Whiskey Ring brought down local distillers in a nationwide scandal that nearly reached the Oval Office. As a result, Police Chief John Janssen and the Committee to Investigate White Slavery and Kindred Vice waged a protracted battle to contain the most brazen offenses.