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Secret Partners: Big Tom Brown and the Barker Gang - Couverture souple

Mahoney, Timothy R.

 
9780873519045: Secret Partners: Big Tom Brown and the Barker Gang
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0873519043 ISBN 13 : 9780873519045
Editeur : Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S., 2013

Synopsis

Finally, the book that unmasks the insider behind the shocking corruption in St. Paul in the 1930s: Big Tom Brown, the city's chief of police.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Among the most dangerous criminals of the public enemies era was a man who has long hidden in history's shadows: Tom Brown. In the early 1930s, while he was police chief of St. Paul, Minnesota, Brown became a secret partner of the infamous Barker gang. He profited from their violent crimes, he protected the gang from raids by the nascent FBI and while he did all this, the gangsters gunned down cops and citizens in his hometown. Big Tom Brown, 6'5" and 275 pounds, continued to enforce St. Paul's corrupt O'Connor system, allowing criminals to stay in the city as long as they paid off the cops and committed no crimes within fifty miles. But in the early 1930s, the system broke down: no longer supported by cash skimmed from illegal booze, gangsters turned to robbing banks, and the Barker gang kidnapped two of the prominent citizens who had been complicit in the liquor trade. Brown was the insider who kept the criminals safe but for highly political reasons, he was never convicted of his crimes.

Biographie de l'auteur

Timothy R. Mahoney is Professor of History at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He is the author of River Towns in the Great West: The Structure of Provincial Urbanization in the American Midwest (Cambridge, 1990) and Provincial Lives: Middle-Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West (Cambridge, 1999). Collectively, this trilogy of books tells a comprehensive story of the transformations of the Midwest and nineteenth-century American society in general.

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Éditeur
Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0873519043
ISBN 13 
9780873519045
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
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