Author: Bill NunesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780978799427
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Big Book of Saint Louis and Southern Illinois Crime
Author: Bill NunesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780978799427
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Big Book of St. Louis and Southern Illinois Nostalgia
Author: Bill NunesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780978799458
Category : Ethnic groups
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Big Book of Library Grant Money
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 1540
Book Description
Profiles of ... private and corporate foundations and direct corporate givers receptive to library grant proposals.
Abandoned in the Heartland
Author: Jennifer HamerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520950178
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Urban poverty, along with all of its poignant manifestations, is moving from city centers to working-class and industrial suburbs in contemporary America. Nowhere is this more evident than in East St. Louis, Illinois. Once a thriving manufacturing and transportation center, East St. Louis is now known for its unemployment, crime, and collapsing infrastructure. Abandoned in the Heartland takes us into the lives of East St. Louis’s predominantly African American residents to find out what has happened since industry abandoned the city, and jobs, quality schools, and city services disappeared, leaving people isolated and imperiled. Jennifer Hamer introduces men who search for meaning and opportunity in dead-end jobs, women who often take on caretaking responsibilities until well into old age, and parents who have the impossible task of protecting their children in this dangerous, and literally toxic, environment. Illustrated with historical and contemporary photographs showing how the city has changed over time, this book, full of stories of courage and fortitude, offers a powerful vision of the transformed circumstances of life in one American suburb.
Sins of the South
Author: Maureen Kay HughesPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781469907796
Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An investigation into the true circumstances of the April 1956 shooting of Southern Illinois nightclub owner Lester "Shot" Winchester, which the original investigation ruled a suicide.
St. Louis Noir
Author: Scott PhillipsPublisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617754617
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
“St. Louis gets a turn to show its dark side . . . [A] spirited, black-hearted collection” including a story from New York Times–bestselling author John Lutz (Kirkus Reviews). A vibrant Midwest metropolis, St. Louis has a rich, multicultural history of art and literature—both high and low. That duality is embraced here in an anthology that spans the reaches of noir, from violent criminality to bad luck and bad attitudes. St. Louis Noir includes stories by bestselling authors John Lutz and Scott Phillips, a poetic interlude featuring Poet Laureate Michael Castro, and more tales from Calvin Wilson, LaVelle Wilkins-Chinn, Paul D. Marks, Colleen J. McElroy, Jason Makansi, S.L. Coney, Laura Benedict, Jedidiah Ayres, Umar Lee, Chris Barsanti, and L.J. Smith. “The stories here are uniformly strong. Regular readers of the Noir series know what to expect: tightly written, tightly plotted, mostly character-driven stories of murder and mayhem, death and despair, shadow and shock.” —Booklist “Thirteen tales of grim homicidal happenings (plus one poetic interlude) set in the streets of the St. Louis area.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Christian Advocate
Author: Organized Crime in Chicago
Author: Robert M. LombardoPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252094484
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive sociological explanation for the emergence and continuation of organized crime in Chicago. Tracing the roots of political corruption that afforded protection to gambling, prostitution, and other vice activity in Chicago and other large American cities, Robert M. Lombardo challenges the dominant belief that organized crime in America descended directly from the Sicilian Mafia. According to this widespread "alien conspiracy" theory, organized crime evolved in a linear fashion beginning with the Mafia in Sicily, emerging in the form of the Black Hand in America's immigrant colonies, and culminating in the development of the Cosa Nostra in America's urban centers. Looking beyond this Mafia paradigm, this volume argues that the development of organized crime in Chicago and other large American cities was rooted in the social structure of American society. Specifically, Lombardo ties organized crime to the emergence of machine politics in America's urban centers. From nineteenth-century vice syndicates to the modern-day Outfit, Chicago's criminal underworld could not have existed without the blessing of those who controlled municipal, county, and state government. These practices were not imported from Sicily, Lombardo contends, but were bred in the socially disorganized slums of America where elected officials routinely franchised vice and crime in exchange for money and votes. This book also traces the history of the African-American community's participation in traditional organized crime in Chicago and offers new perspectives on the organizational structure of the Chicago Outfit, the traditional organized crime group in Chicago.
A Crime So Monstrous
Author: E. Benjamin SkinnerPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743290089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Based on four years of research in over a dozen countries across the globe, journalist Skinner provides a shocking expos of the inner workings of the modern-day slave trade. Maps.
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