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Book Chicago Surrenders     A Sequel to  Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime

Download or read book Chicago Surrenders A Sequel to Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime written by Edward Dean SULLIVAN and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime  Abridged

Download or read book Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime Abridged written by Edward Dean Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago Crime.

Book Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime

Download or read book Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime written by Edward Dean Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime  Abridged

Download or read book Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime Abridged written by Edward Dean Sullivan and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at organized crime in Chicago during prohibition

Book Chicago Surrenders

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward Dean Sullivan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1931
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Chicago Surrenders written by Edward Dean Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Books and Notes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Los Angeles County Public Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1364 pages

Download or read book Books and Notes written by Los Angeles County Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Girls of Murder City

Download or read book The Girls of Murder City written by Douglas Perry and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a thrilling, fast-paced narrative, award-winning journalist Douglas Perry vividly captures the sensationalized circus atmosphere that gave rise to the concept of the celebrity criminal- and gave Chicago its most famous story. The Girls of Murder City recounts two scandalous, sex-fueled murder cases and how an intrepid "girl reporter" named Maurine Watkins turned the beautiful, media-savvy suspects-"Stylish Belva" and "Beautiful Beulah"-into the talk of the town. Fueled by rich period detail and a cast of characters who seemed destined for the stage, The Girls of Murder City is a crackling tale that simultaneously presents the freewheeling spirit of the Jazz Age and its sober repercussions.

Book Chicago Tribune

Download or read book Chicago Tribune written by Lloyd Wendt and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this definitive work, the author chronicles 130 years of the Chicago Tribune from it's start in 1847, relying on files from the newspaper and interviews with key personnel past and present.

Book Return to the Scene of the Crime

Download or read book Return to the Scene of the Crime written by Richard Lindberg and published by Cumberland House Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A region-by-region tour of Chicago that describes significant crimes that took place in each area and chronicles the changes--such as laws, real estate development, and industrialization--that have influenced crime in the city.

Book The Notorious Ben Hecht

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julien Gorbach
  • Publisher : Purdue University Press
  • Release : 2019-03-15
  • ISBN : 1612495958
  • Pages : 504 pages

Download or read book The Notorious Ben Hecht written by Julien Gorbach and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2019 National Jewish Book Award Finalist for Biography. Ben Hecht had seen his share of death-row psychopaths, crooked ward bosses, and Capone gun thugs by the time he had come of age as a crime reporter in gangland Chicago. His grim experience with what he called “the soul of man” gave him a kind of uncanny foresight a decade later, when a loose cannon named Adolf Hitler began to rise to power in central Europe. In 1932, Hecht solidified his legend as "the Shakespeare of Hollywood" with his thriller Scarface, the Howard Hughes epic considered the gangster movie to end all gangster movies. But Hecht rebelled against his Jewish bosses at the movie studios when they refused to make films about the Nazi menace. Leveraging his talents and celebrity connections to orchestrate a spectacular one-man publicity campaign, he mobilized pressure on the Roosevelt administration for an Allied plan to rescue Europe’s Jews. Then after the war, Hecht became notorious, embracing the labels “gangster” and “terrorist” in partnering with the mobster Mickey Cohen to smuggle weapons to Palestine in the fight for a Jewish state. The Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist is a biography of a great twentieth-century writer that treats his activism during the 1940s as the central drama of his life. It details the story of how Hecht earned admiration as a humanitarian and vilification as an extremist at this pivotal moment in history, about the origins of his beliefs in his varied experiences in American media, and about the consequences. Who else but Hecht could have drawn the admiration of Ezra Pound, clowned around with Harpo Marx, written Notorious and Spellbound with Alfred Hitchcock, launched Marlon Brando’s career, ghosted Marilyn Monroe’s memoirs, hosted Jack Kerouac and Salvador Dalí on his television talk show, and plotted revolt with Menachem Begin? Any lover of modern history who follows this journey through the worlds of gangsters, reporters, Jazz Age artists, Hollywood stars, movie moguls, political radicals, and guerrilla fighters will never look at the twentieth century in the same way again.

Book White on Arrival

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas A. Guglielmo
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2004-09-30
  • ISBN : 0198035381
  • Pages : 293 pages

Download or read book White on Arrival written by Thomas A. Guglielmo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the mass Italian immigration of the late 19th century as his starting point and drawing on dozens of oral histories and a diverse array of primary sources in English and Italian, Guglielmo focuses on how perceptions of Italians' race and color were shaped in one of America's great centers of immigration and labor, Chicago. His account skillfully weaves together the major events of Chicago immigrant history--the "Chicago Color Riot" of 1919, the rise of Italian organized crime, and the rise of industrial unionism--with national and international events--such as the rise of fascism and the Italian-Ethiopian War of 1935-36--to present the story of how Italians approached, learned, and lived race. By tracking their evolving position in the city's racial hierarchy, Guglielmo reveals the impact of racial classification--both formal and informal--on immigrants' abilities to acquire homes and jobs, start families, and gain opportunities in America. White on Arrival was the winner of the 2004 Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians

Book Eliot Ness

Download or read book Eliot Ness written by Douglas Perry and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Eliot Ness, the legendary lawman who led the Untouchables, took on Al Capone, and saved a city’s soul As leader of an unprecedented crime-busting squad, twenty-eight-year-old Eliot Ness won fame for taking on notorious mobster Al Capone. But the Untouchables’ daring raids were only the beginning of Ness’s unlikely story. This new biography grapples with the charismatic lawman’s complicated, largely forgotten legacy. Perry chronicles Ness’s days in Chicago as well as his spectacular second act in Cleveland, where he achieved his greatest success: purging the profoundly corrupt city and forging new practices that changed police work across the country. He also faced one of his greatest challenges: a mysterious serial killer known as the Torso Murderer. Capturing the first complete portrait of the real Eliot Ness, Perry brings to life an unorthodox man who believed in the integrity of law and the power of American justice.

Book Bosses in Lusty Chicago

Download or read book Bosses in Lusty Chicago written by Lloyd Wendt and published by Midland Books. This book was released on 1943 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the two political bosses of Chicago's First Ward during the early-twentieth century illuminates their ambitions, eccentricities, and use of power.

Book Clues

Download or read book Clues written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Principles of Criminology

Download or read book Principles of Criminology written by Edwin Hardin Sutherland and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Violations of Free Speech and Rights of Labor

Download or read book Violations of Free Speech and Rights of Labor written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Senate Resolution 266 and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book People to See

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  • Author : Jay Robert Nash
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book People to See written by Jay Robert Nash and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People to See is an irreverent and revealing portrait of the merchant princes and magnates Marshall Field, William Randolph Hearst, P.K. Wrigley, George Pullman; crime kings Roger Plant, Al Capone, Arnold Rothestein, who fixed the 1919 World Series and "Shoeless Hoe" Jackson who played it that way; Richard J. Daley and the long line of his predecessors who insisted Chicago was not ready for reform; the proud pioneers of journalism and literature, Ben Hecht, Carl Sandburg, Nelson Algren, Saul Bellwo, Gwendolyn Brooks; and the rich heritage of Chicago sports. This is social history dominated by vivid personalities--regal and raffish characters with a talent for making out, moving up, and having their own way. They lived and often died with old-style flair and flamboyance and Jay Robert Nash presents their stories with exactly the right flavor. All the scattered fragments of the record of these originals have been searched and woven into the fabric of Chicago history. Here are zesty chronicles of those who imposed their wills in pursuit of power, profit, and pleasure int he great inland city that yields only to the bold.