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Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties
Contributor(s): Lesy, Michael (Author)

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 ISBN: 0393330591     ISBN-13: 9780393330595
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE: $23.70  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2008
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Annotation: Lesy's portrait of a gruesome era could be fiction--but it's not. Providing a glimpse into the dark side of the Jazz Age, Lesy's sharp, fearless storytelling makes a compelling case that this collection of criminals may be the progenitors of our modern age. 60 illustrations.
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi
- History | United States - 20th Century
Dewey: 364.152
Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6" W x 9.26" L (1.08 lbs) 346 pages
Themes:
- Locality - Chicago, Illinois
- Geographic Orientation - Illinois
- Chronological Period - 1920's
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
 
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Lesy, Michael: - Michael Lesy is one of America's leading photographic scholars. His books include Wisconsin Death Trip, Murder City, Angel's World, and Long Time Coming. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he teaches literary journalism at Hampshire College.
 
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