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Author | : Carolyn Cox |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2021-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1640122036 |
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The Snatch Racket will take the reader behind the scenes of kidnapping crimes that terrified the American public in the 1930s.
Author | : James R. Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781884995637 |
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"Captures the flavor of the time and the impact of events with the urgency of an angry Tommy gun."--Pat Craig, Bay Area News Group.
Author | : Carolyn Cox |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2021-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1640124322 |
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The Snatch Racket will take the reader behind the scenes of kidnapping crimes that terrified the American public in the 1930s.
Author | : Yuji Ichioka |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804751476 |
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This book is an anthology of essays by Yuji Ichioka, the foremost authority on Japanese American history, which studies Japanese American life and politics in the interwar years.
Author | : Eric Partridge |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 2733 |
Release | : 2021-07-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317431588 |
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This set reissues important selected works by Eric Partridge, covering the period from 1933 to 1968. Together, the books look at many and diverse aspects of language, focusing in particular on English. Included in the collection are a variety of insightful dictionaries and reference works that showcase some of Partridge’s best work. The books are creative, as well as practical, and will provide enjoyable reading for both scholars and the more general reader, who has an interest in language and linguistics.
Author | : Karla Deel |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2019-10-08 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1493042440 |
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Welcome to Kansas City—the best town this side of Hell. The Paris of the Plains. Home to the Wettest Block in the World. This collection celebrates a storied history of one notorious city. Meet the mobsters and victims, bootleggers, madams, political bosses and raucous entertainers who truly brought the party to the plains even during Prohibition. Witness the best parades, the wackiest costumes and the wildest scams. Kansas City’s sordid underbelly is full of surprises sure to delight and entice—the odd, macabre and delightful.
Author | : Eric Partridge |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 2680 |
Release | : 2015-06-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 131744552X |
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First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds. It includes entries from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, as well as from Britain and America and offers a fascinating and unique study of language. The book provides an invaluable insight into social history, with the British vocabulary dating back to the 16th century and the American to the late 18th century. Each entry comes complete with the approximate date of origin, the etymology for each word, and a note of the milieu in which the expression arose.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Child abuse |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gregory A. Fournier |
Publisher | : Wheatmark, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2019-11-29 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1627877150 |
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The Elusive Purple Gang: Detroit's Kosher Nostra is a concise history of one of America's most notorious Prohibition gangs. The Burnstein brothers and their associates were the only Jewish gang in the United States to dominate the rackets of a major American city. From their meteoric rise to the top of Detroit's underworld to their ultimate demise, this is an episodic account of the Purple Gang's corrosive pursuit of power and wealth and their inevitable plunge towards self-destruction.
Author | : David E. Ruth |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 1996-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226732185 |
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Ruth shows that the media gangster was less a reflection of reality than a projection created from Americans' values, concerns, and ideas about what would sell.