(DOWNLOAD) "Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties" by Michael Lesy Ph.D. * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties
- Author : Michael Lesy Ph.D.
- Release Date : January 17, 2008
- Genre: United States,Books,History,Nonfiction,True Crime,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1199 KB
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"Vivid, laconic, and crisp. The bodies fall like dominoes, and every word sounds like it was shot from a gun. And as you might expect from Lesy, the photographs are extraordinary." —Luc Sante
Things began as they usually did: Someone shot someone else. So begins a chapter of Michael Lesy's disturbingly satisfying account of Chicago in the 1920s, the epicenter of Murder in America. Just as Lesy’s first book, Wisconsin Death Trip, subverted the accepted notion of the Gay Nineties, so Murder City exposes the dark side of the Jazz Age. Revisiting seventeen Chicago murder cases—including that of Belva and Beulah, two murderesses whose trials inspired the musical Chicago—Lesy's sharp, fearless storytelling makes a compelling case that this collection of criminals may be progenitors of our modern age.
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