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My Grandfather's Prison: A Story of Death and Deceit in 1940s Kansas City
Richard A. Serrano
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Hardcover. On the night of his arrest for public intoxication, James Patrick Lyons was taken to the city jail and held in solitary confinement. The next morning he was dead. In his quest to uncover the details of his grandfather's life, the author re-creates the flavor of mid-twentieth-century Kansas City. Num Pages: 52 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNK; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
James Patrick Lyons abandoned his family for a life on Kansas City's skid row. A town drunk, he was arrested eighty times for public intoxication. On the night of his last arrest, he was taken to the city jail and held in solitary confinement. The next morning he was dead. Officials said it was natural causes - yet they could not explain his broken neck. When Richard Serrano learned of the grandfather he had never known, the longtime journalist embarked upon a search that led him deep into the city's wide-open and ignoble past. He stumbled upon his maternal grandfather's ... Read more
James Patrick Lyons abandoned his family for a life on Kansas City's skid row. A town drunk, he was arrested eighty times for public intoxication. On the night of his last arrest, he was taken to the city jail and held in solitary confinement. The next morning he was dead. Officials said it was natural causes - yet they could not explain his broken neck. When Richard Serrano learned of the grandfather he had never known, the longtime journalist embarked upon a search that led him deep into the city's wide-open and ignoble past. He stumbled upon his maternal grandfather's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
Number of Pages
52
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9780826218643
SKU
V9780826218643
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About Richard A. Serrano
Richard A. Serrano, former reporter for the Kansas City Times and former Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, is author of One of Ours: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia.
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