Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties

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  • Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties Book Detail

  • Author : Michael Lesy
  • Release Date : 2008-02-17
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 264
  • ISBN 13 : 0393077713
  • File Size : 17,17 MB
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Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties by Michael Lesy PDF Summary

Book Description: "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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