FREE Standard shipping on all items
FREE Standard shipping on all items
FREE Standard shipping

Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland:: Sex, Vice & Misdeeds in Mayor Baker's Reign

Publisher: History Press, 2016

ISBN: 9781467119535

Product: Book, Paperback

May have wear from normal use.

See full description
The 1917 election of Mayor George Luis Baker ushered a long era of unscrupulous greed into Portland government. While supposedly enforcing prohibition laws, Baker ordered police chief Leon Jenkins to control and profit from the bootlegging market. Baker filled city coffers and his friends' pockets with booze-soaked cash while sensational headlines like the 1929 affair between policeman Bill Breuning and informant Anna Schrader scandalized the city. Maligned in the press, Schrader executed a bitter campaign to recall the mayor. In 1933, a hired gunman murdered special investigator to the governor Frank Aiken a day before he would have filed a report on corruption in the city government. Authors JD Chandler and Theresa Griffin Kennedy unearth the salacious details of Baker's crooked administration in a revelatory account of prohibition in the Rose City.
ISBN/UPC:

9781467119535

Product:

Book, Paperback

Title:

Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland:: Sex, Vice & Misdeeds in Mayor Baker's Reign

Series:

True Crime

Publisher:

History Press, 2016

Pages:

160

Language:

English

Specification:

8.9 x 6.0 x 0.6 inches, 1 pounds

load
Acceptable:Fairly worn but fully readable and intact. Pages may include notes, highlighting, or minor water damage. Dust jacket, CDs, product codes, or other inclusions may be missing or expired.
Good:Shows signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes or highlighting. Dust jacket, CDs, product codes, or other inclusions may be missing or expired.
Very Good:Item has seen limited use and has minimal signs of wear. Pages are clean without markings. Dust jacket, CDs, product codes, or other inclusions may be missing or expired.
Like New:Shows little to no signs of wear. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean without markings. CDs, product codes, or other inclusions may be missing or expired.