Author: J. Anne Funderburg
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476616191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This work is an accurate, wide-ranging, and entertaining account of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition Era (1920 to 1933). Based on FBI files, legal documents, old newspapers and other sources, it offers a coast-to-coast survey of Volstead crime--outrageous stories of America's most notorious liquor lords, including Al Capone and Dutch Schultz. Readers will find the lesser known Volstead outlaws to be as fascinating as their more famous counterparts. The riveting tales of Max Hassel, Waxy Gordon, Roy Olmstead, the Purple Gang, the Havre Bunch, and the Capitol Hill Bootlegger will be new to most readers. Likewise, the exploits of women bootleggers and flying bootleggers are unknown to most Americans. Books about Prohibition usually note that Canadian liquor exporters abetted the U.S. bootleggers, but they fail to go into detail. Bootleggers and Beer Barons examines the major cross-border routes for smuggling liquor from Canada into the U.S.: Quebec to Vermont and New York, Ontario to Michigan, Saskatchewan to Montana, and British Columbia to Washington.
Bootlegger's Boy
Author: Barry Switzer
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
ISBN: 9780688093846
Category : Football
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The controversial football coach recounts his battles with the NCAA as leader of the Oklahoma Sooners, when he was accused of unethical recruitment practices and other violations
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
ISBN: 9780688093846
Category : Football
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The controversial football coach recounts his battles with the NCAA as leader of the Oklahoma Sooners, when he was accused of unethical recruitment practices and other violations
Bootlegger's Daughter
Author: Margaret Maron
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780892964451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This smart, sassy series introduces Deborah Knott, candidate for district judge--and daughter of an infamous bootlegger. Deborah's campaigning is interrupted when disturbing new evidence surrrounding a murder that has never been solved surfaces and she is implored to investigate.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780892964451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This smart, sassy series introduces Deborah Knott, candidate for district judge--and daughter of an infamous bootlegger. Deborah's campaigning is interrupted when disturbing new evidence surrrounding a murder that has never been solved surfaces and she is implored to investigate.
Bootleggers and Beer Barons of the Prohibition Era
Author: J. Anne Funderburg
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476616191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This work is an accurate, wide-ranging, and entertaining account of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition Era (1920 to 1933). Based on FBI files, legal documents, old newspapers and other sources, it offers a coast-to-coast survey of Volstead crime--outrageous stories of America's most notorious liquor lords, including Al Capone and Dutch Schultz. Readers will find the lesser known Volstead outlaws to be as fascinating as their more famous counterparts. The riveting tales of Max Hassel, Waxy Gordon, Roy Olmstead, the Purple Gang, the Havre Bunch, and the Capitol Hill Bootlegger will be new to most readers. Likewise, the exploits of women bootleggers and flying bootleggers are unknown to most Americans. Books about Prohibition usually note that Canadian liquor exporters abetted the U.S. bootleggers, but they fail to go into detail. Bootleggers and Beer Barons examines the major cross-border routes for smuggling liquor from Canada into the U.S.: Quebec to Vermont and New York, Ontario to Michigan, Saskatchewan to Montana, and British Columbia to Washington.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476616191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This work is an accurate, wide-ranging, and entertaining account of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition Era (1920 to 1933). Based on FBI files, legal documents, old newspapers and other sources, it offers a coast-to-coast survey of Volstead crime--outrageous stories of America's most notorious liquor lords, including Al Capone and Dutch Schultz. Readers will find the lesser known Volstead outlaws to be as fascinating as their more famous counterparts. The riveting tales of Max Hassel, Waxy Gordon, Roy Olmstead, the Purple Gang, the Havre Bunch, and the Capitol Hill Bootlegger will be new to most readers. Likewise, the exploits of women bootleggers and flying bootleggers are unknown to most Americans. Books about Prohibition usually note that Canadian liquor exporters abetted the U.S. bootleggers, but they fail to go into detail. Bootleggers and Beer Barons examines the major cross-border routes for smuggling liquor from Canada into the U.S.: Quebec to Vermont and New York, Ontario to Michigan, Saskatchewan to Montana, and British Columbia to Washington.
Pretty Boy
Author: Michael Wallis
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312110468
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The life and times of Charles Arthur Floyd.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312110468
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The life and times of Charles Arthur Floyd.
The Bootlegger
Author: Clive Cussler
Publisher:
ISBN: 0399167293
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Detective Isaac Bell returns in the extraordinary new adventure in the #1 New York Times–bestselling series. It is 1920, and both Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Isaac Bell’s boss and lifelong friend Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed leading the high-speed chase of a rum-running vessel, Bell swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers, but he doesn’t know what he is getting into. When a witness to Van Dorn’s shooting is executed in a ruthlessly efficient manner invented by the Russian secret police, it becomes clear that these are no ordinary criminals. Bell is up against a team of Bolshevik assassins and saboteurs—and they are intent on overthrowing the government of the United States.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0399167293
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Detective Isaac Bell returns in the extraordinary new adventure in the #1 New York Times–bestselling series. It is 1920, and both Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Isaac Bell’s boss and lifelong friend Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed leading the high-speed chase of a rum-running vessel, Bell swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers, but he doesn’t know what he is getting into. When a witness to Van Dorn’s shooting is executed in a ruthlessly efficient manner invented by the Russian secret police, it becomes clear that these are no ordinary criminals. Bell is up against a team of Bolshevik assassins and saboteurs—and they are intent on overthrowing the government of the United States.
The City Boy and His Problems
Author: Emory Stephen Bogardus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Bootlegger
Author: Ed Taggert
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595260136
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Bootlegger is about a Jewish immigrant who became a bootlegger at the age of 19 during Prohibition. By the time he was 24, the government claimed he owed $1.2 million in income taxes. He was a rarity in that he never used violence to achieve his wealth. After three of his breweries in Reading, Pennsylvania were closed down in 1928, he became a partner with Waxey Gordon, the foremost beer baron in the country. Their syndicate in North Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania controlled 17 breweries, according to the Prohibition Bureau. When real beer was legalized in 1933, Hassel became a legitimate brewer by placing a tax stamp on every barrel leaving his breweries. This was in direct opposition to the plans of the Luciano/Lansky forces whose plan was to retain control of the beer and liquor industries after Prohibition. Hassel was killed by mob hit men, setting off an investigation that ruined the mob's scheme. The mystery of who killed Hassel was not solved for almost seventy years. Hassel was not just another beer man who gained considerable wealth in the bootleg racket. He gave to numerous charities and financed a free loan society for the poor during Prohibition. The Hassel Foundation today gives grants totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to worthy causes in the Philadelphia and Reading area.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595260136
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Bootlegger is about a Jewish immigrant who became a bootlegger at the age of 19 during Prohibition. By the time he was 24, the government claimed he owed $1.2 million in income taxes. He was a rarity in that he never used violence to achieve his wealth. After three of his breweries in Reading, Pennsylvania were closed down in 1928, he became a partner with Waxey Gordon, the foremost beer baron in the country. Their syndicate in North Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania controlled 17 breweries, according to the Prohibition Bureau. When real beer was legalized in 1933, Hassel became a legitimate brewer by placing a tax stamp on every barrel leaving his breweries. This was in direct opposition to the plans of the Luciano/Lansky forces whose plan was to retain control of the beer and liquor industries after Prohibition. Hassel was killed by mob hit men, setting off an investigation that ruined the mob's scheme. The mystery of who killed Hassel was not solved for almost seventy years. Hassel was not just another beer man who gained considerable wealth in the bootleg racket. He gave to numerous charities and financed a free loan society for the poor during Prohibition. The Hassel Foundation today gives grants totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to worthy causes in the Philadelphia and Reading area.
Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario
Author: Ontario. Legislative Assembly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1488
Book Description
All the Horrors of Home
Author: William Smith Morris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Cotton Picking Boy
Author: Alvin H. Clement
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595195539
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Reader, be forewarned, no happy ending here. Most histories were written from the top, looking down. This is from the bottom up, by teenage boys and their observations on: black and white cotton pickers, “planters versus workers,” con men, hucksters, KKK, preachers, politicians, bootleggers, slavery and slave-hunters during the Great Depression, and rising war clouds—coming Draft.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595195539
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Reader, be forewarned, no happy ending here. Most histories were written from the top, looking down. This is from the bottom up, by teenage boys and their observations on: black and white cotton pickers, “planters versus workers,” con men, hucksters, KKK, preachers, politicians, bootleggers, slavery and slave-hunters during the Great Depression, and rising war clouds—coming Draft.