Charlie and the Shawneetown Dame: Love and Madness in the

Charlie and the Shawneetown Dame: Love and Madness in the Roaring Twenties
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This book recounts a famous turf war raged during Prohibition. Charlie Birger's outsized ambitions brought him from New York to southern Illinois in search of fortune as a bootlegger. He soon found that his dream to be even bigger than Al Capone faced a few hurdles-including the vicious Shelton Brothers and Helen Holbrook, a beautiful, alcoholic socialite from Shawneetown, whose simultaneous affairs with Birger and Carl Shelton fueled a bloody and bizarre gang war.
Country USA
Brand Purdue University Press
Manufacturer Purdue University Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2004-10-22
UnitCount 1
Format Download: Adobe Reader
EANs 9781557533753

Charlie and the Shawneetown Dame: Love and Madness in the Roaring Twenties