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Lords of the Levee
Wendt, Lloyd; Kogan, Herman
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Description for Lords of the Levee
Paperback. This piece of Chicago-style journalism traces the careers of 'Bathhouse' John Coughlin and 'Hinky Dink' Mike Kenna, one a former bathhouse rubman, the other once the Chicago Tribune's loudest newsboy as the two rose to the top of the city's political world, via gambling palaces, bars, thugs, prostitutes and dives. Num Pages: 385 pages, Illustrations, map, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; BGH; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 517.
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 encompassed City Hall and the Loop and the mansions of Michigan Avenue. More significantly, 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 ... Read more
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 encompassed City Hall and the Loop and the mansions of Michigan Avenue. More significantly, 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
385
Condition
New
Number of Pages
385
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810123205
SKU
V9780810123205
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About Wendt, Lloyd; Kogan, Herman
Lloyd Wendt (birth date??) was a long-time Chicago Journalist and the author of Chicago Tribune: The Rise of a Great American Newspaper (Rand McNatly, 1979), and (with Herman Kogan) Give the Lady What She Wants: The Story of Marshall Field &
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