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Donald Bain
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Charlie and the Shawneetown Dame: Love and Madness in the Roaring Twenties--An Incredible True Story |
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English |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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268 |
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2004-11-01 |
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155753375X |
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Purdue University Press |
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1.1 pounds |
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6.38 x 0.71 x 8.9 inches |
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Product Description
This book recounts a famous turf war raged during Prohibition. Charlie Birger's outsized ambitions brought him from New York to southern Illinois in search of fortune as a bootlegger. He soon found that his dream to be "even bigger than Al Capone" faced a few hurdles-including the vicious Shelton Brothers and Helen Holbrook, a beautiful, alcoholic socialite from Shawneetown, whose simultaneous affairs with Birger and Carl Shelton fueled a bloody and bizarre gang war.
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