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Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago (Historical Studies of Urban America)
Gillian O'Brien
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Description for Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago (Historical Studies of Urban America)
Hardcover. On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and most curious crimes in civilized history. Num Pages: 320 pages, 26 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JH; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 574.
It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln's. On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and most curious crimes in civilized history. The dead man, Dr P H Cronin, was a respected Irish physician, but his brutal murder uncovered a web of intrigue, secrecy, and corruption that stretched across the United States and far beyond. Blood Runs Green tells the story of Cronin's murder from the police investigation to the trial. It is a ... Read more
It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln's. On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and most curious crimes in civilized history. The dead man, Dr P H Cronin, was a respected Irish physician, but his brutal murder uncovered a web of intrigue, secrecy, and corruption that stretched across the United States and far beyond. Blood Runs Green tells the story of Cronin's murder from the police investigation to the trial. It is a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226248950
SKU
V9780226248950
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About Gillian O'Brien
Gillian O'Brien is a senior lecturer in history at Liverpool John Moores University. She is coeditor of Georgian Dublin and Portraits of the City: Dublin and the Wider World.
Reviews for Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago (Historical Studies of Urban America)
"In the process of dissecting and analyzing one of the most notorious murder cases of the late nineteenth century, O'Brien has illuminated not only the subterranean world of the Irish nationalist revolutionaries of the Clan na Gael but also many aspects of the broader story of Irish American Chicago. The book is meticulously researched and elegantly written-a star in the ... Read more