Murder City The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties

Name: Murder City The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties
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ISBN: 9780393330595

ISBN-10: 0393330591

ISBN-13: 9780393330595

Edition: 2008

Authors: Michael Lesy

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Michael Lesy's disturbingly satisfying account of Chicago in the 1920sthe epicenter of murder in Americacould be fiction, but it's not. "Things began as they usually did: Someone shot someone else." So begins a chapter of this sharp, fearless collection from a master storyteller. Revisiting seventeen Chicago murder casesincluding that of Belva and Beulah, two murderesses whose trials inspired the musical ChicagoMichael Lesy captures an extraordinary moment in American history, bringing to life a city where newspapers scrambled to cover the latest mayhem. Just as Lesy's bookWisconsin Death Tripsubverted the accepted notion of the Gay Nineties, soMurder Cityexposes the tragedy of the Jazz…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 346
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.91" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.166

Michael Lesy 's books include Angel's World and Long Time Coming . In 2006 he was named one of the first United States Artists Fellowship recipients, and in 2013 was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. A professor of literary journalism at Hampshire College; he lives in Massachusetts.




Carl Wanderer



Cora Isabelle Orthwein



Harvey Church



Catherwood



Roach and Mosby



Arthur, Eleanor, and Kate



The Banker



Leighton Mount



Fred-Frances



Duffy Double Murder



Belva and Beulah



Assassins



Hymie Weiss



Christ's Dream



Diamond Joe



Pearl



Three Murders


Afterword


Notes


List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Index