The Snatch Racket

Author : Carolyn Cox
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640122036
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Snatch Racket written by Carolyn Cox and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Snatch Racket will take the reader behind the scenes of kidnapping crimes that terrified the American public in the 1930s.

Author : James R. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781884995637
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The California Snatch Racket written by James R. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Captures the flavor of the time and the impact of events with the urgency of an angry Tommy gun."--Pat Craig, Bay Area News Group.

Author : Carolyn Cox
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640124322
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Snatch Racket written by Carolyn Cox and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Snatch Racket will take the reader behind the scenes of kidnapping crimes that terrified the American public in the 1930s.

Author : Yuji Ichioka
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804751476
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Before Internment written by Yuji Ichioka and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an anthology of essays by Yuji Ichioka, the foremost authority on Japanese American history, which studies Japanese American life and politics in the interwar years.

Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317431588
Total Pages : 2733 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Selected Works of Eric Partridge written by Eric Partridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 2733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set reissues important selected works by Eric Partridge, covering the period from 1933 to 1968. Together, the books look at many and diverse aspects of language, focusing in particular on English. Included in the collection are a variety of insightful dictionaries and reference works that showcase some of Partridge’s best work. The books are creative, as well as practical, and will provide enjoyable reading for both scholars and the more general reader, who has an interest in language and linguistics.

Author : Karla Deel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493042440
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Storied & Scandalous Kansas City written by Karla Deel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Kansas City—the best town this side of Hell. The Paris of the Plains. Home to the Wettest Block in the World. This collection celebrates a storied history of one notorious city. Meet the mobsters and victims, bootleggers, madams, political bosses and raucous entertainers who truly brought the party to the plains even during Prohibition. Witness the best parades, the wackiest costumes and the wildest scams. Kansas City’s sordid underbelly is full of surprises sure to delight and entice—the odd, macabre and delightful.

Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131744552X
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of the Underworld written by Eric Partridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds. It includes entries from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, as well as from Britain and America and offers a fascinating and unique study of language. The book provides an invaluable insight into social history, with the British vocabulary dating back to the 16th century and the American to the late 18th century. Each entry comes complete with the approximate date of origin, the etymology for each word, and a note of the milieu in which the expression arose.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child Kidnapping written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gregory A. Fournier
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1627877150
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elusive Purple Gang written by Gregory A. Fournier and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Elusive Purple Gang: Detroit's Kosher Nostra is a concise history of one of America's most notorious Prohibition gangs. The Burnstein brothers and their associates were the only Jewish gang in the United States to dominate the rackets of a major American city. From their meteoric rise to the top of Detroit's underworld to their ultimate demise, this is an episodic account of the Purple Gang's corrosive pursuit of power and wealth and their inevitable plunge towards self-destruction.

Author : David E. Ruth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226732185
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing the Public Enemy written by David E. Ruth and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth shows that the media gangster was less a reflection of reality than a projection created from Americans' values, concerns, and ideas about what would sell.