wyszukanych pozycji: 3
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Lords of the Levee: The Story of Bathhouse John and Hinky Dink
ISBN: 9780810123205 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the early twentieth century, John Coughlin and Mike Kenna ruled Chicago's First Ward, the lucrative lakefront territory and nerve center of the city. It was one of the most infamous havens for vice in the entire country, home to gambling palaces with marble floors and mahogany bars, to a mini-city of thugs and prostitutes and down-and-outers, to dives and saloons of every description and a few beyond description. In short, the First was a gold mine. In a city where money talked, it made boisterous Bathhouse John and the laconic Hinky Dink Kenna the most powerful men in town. This classic...
In the early twentieth century, John Coughlin and Mike Kenna ruled Chicago's First Ward, the lucrative lakefront territory and nerve center of the cit...
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107,88 zł |
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Give the Lady What She Wants
ISBN: 9781087860657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,26 zł |
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Big Bill of Chicago
ISBN: 9780810123199 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Winner of 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award-Certificate of Excellence
To some he was a humanitarian and builder. Others scorned him as a fake and friend of gangsters with "the carcass of a rhinoceros and the brain of a baboon." This rollicking history traces the rise of William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson, Chicago's famous reform mayor, from his upper class roots to his years as a teenaged cowboy, from his fame as a star athlete to the years as a master politician in a world where the ward boss ruled and whiskey for the voters cost a quarter a shot. Big Bill of Chicago... Winner of 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award-Certificate of Excellence
To some he was a humanitarian and builder. Others scorned h... |
cena:
107,88 zł |