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Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties
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Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties
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by Michael Lesy
Sales Rank : 334968
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Hardcover: 344 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton February 26, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393060306
ISBN-13: 978-0393060300
Product Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
Product Review
A chilling portrait. -- The Tribune, UK
A magnificent read. -- Dayton Daily News
Gripping and horrifying. -- Chicago Tribune
Lean and stark. -- City Pages, Minneapolis
Pungentinsistentfervid. -- Popmatters.com
Startlingrivetingwith a superlative array of photos. -- Capital Times, Madison, Wisconsin
[Has] the archaic strangeness of myth. -- The Atlantic
Product Description
Michael Lesy's portrait of a gruesome era could be fictionbut it's not.
"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. A city where daily newspapers fell over each other to cover the latest mayhem. A city where professionals and amateurs alike snuffed one another out, and often for the most banal of reasons, such as wanting a Packard twin-six. Men killing men, men killing women, women killing mencrimes of loot and love. Just as Lesy's first book, Wisconsin Death Trip, subverted the accepted notion of the Gay Nineties, so Murder City gives us 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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