Author: Lisa Riggin
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496202074
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
"Lisa Riggin tells the story of the rise and fall of 1940s San Francisco abortionist Inez Brown Burns, who made a fortune by providing her services to desperate women throughout California before the city's newly elected district attorney, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, exposed the hidden, yet not so secret life of backroom deals, political payoffs and corrupt city cops"--