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Mrs. Cook and the Klan: Booze, Bloodshed, and Bigotry in America’s Heartland - Couverture souple

Chorneau, Tom

 
9781496235848: Mrs. Cook and the Klan: Booze, Bloodshed, and Bigotry in America’s Heartland
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ISBN 10 : 1496235843 ISBN 13 : 9781496235848
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2025

Synopsis

On the day she was murdered, Myrtle Underwood Cook boasted to local authorities about new evidence of a major bootlegging ring operating out of the Rock Island train depot behind her house in a small farming town in eastern Iowa. Then, as she sat at her parlor window sewing, she took a single slug through the heart. She was president of the local temperance union; her killing made the front page of the New York Times. The next day her funeral made national news due to the eerie presence of a small army from the Ku Klux Klan, its members donned in full regalia, drawn from three surrounding states.

It was September 1925, and Al Capone had just taken over the Chicago Outfit, evangelist Billy Sunday was converting thousands to temperance, and the KKK had just marched on Washington, DC. During its first half century of statehood, Iowa lurched from wet to dry and back eight times before Prohibition was ratified in 1919. And back when Iowa was still a territory, its Black Codes imprinted generations with a legacy of intolerance and racism.

Mrs. Cook and the Klan is a true crime investigation that not only sheds new light on Myrtle Underwood Cook's unsolved killing but also explores the confluence of the social, political, and economic forces that brought the Klan, lawless street gangs, a local mob boss, and the temperance movement together in a small American town.

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À propos de l'auteur

Tom Chorneau spent nearly thirty years as a journalist, including more than a decade as an investigative reporter for the Associated Press and the San Francisco Chronicle. He is the author of three works of fiction, including Victim Eleven.

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1496235843
ISBN 13 
9781496235848
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
276
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