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Charlie and the Shawneetown Dame

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Author : Donald Bain
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557533753
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book Charlie and the Shawneetown Dame written by Donald Bain and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie and the Shawneetown Dame, based on a true story, recounts one of the most famous turf wars waged during the madness called Prohibition. The outsized ambition of Charlie Birger - a flamboyant, slightly mad Al Capone wannabe - brought him from New York to southern Illinois in search of fortune as a bootlegger. However, Birger soon found that his dream of grandeur 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. Donald Bain vividly captures turbulent Southern Illinois during the Roaring Twenties, while deftly chronicling Birger's journey from charismatic leader to beleaguered general in the harsh reality of hand-to-hand combat, and ending with his demise as a dupe to a far cleverer enemy. Ultimately done in by the "Shawneetown Dame;" his own inflated ego; and by a sly sheriff named Pritchars, who conned Birger into jail, allowing the area's most famous gangster to bring his sub-machine gun into the cell with him - Charlie and his story are a fascinating piece of Americana - crude, violent, yet often humorous. Replete with homemade tank battles and crude bombings from an open cockpit aircraft, Bain himself considers this rapid, riveting read to be his best book.

Charlie and the Shawneetown Dame

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Author : Donald Bain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Charlie and the Shawneetown Dame written by Donald Bain and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Knight of Another Sort

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Author : Gary DeNeal
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809322169
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book A Knight of Another Sort written by Gary DeNeal and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1998-12-10 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1913 Charlie Birger began his career as a bootlegger, supplying southern Illinois with whiskey and beer. He was charismatic, with an easygoing manner and a cavalier generosity that made him popular. The stuff of legend, he was part monster, part Robin Hood. In the early days, he would emerge from his restaurant/saloon in tiny Ledford in Saline County with a cigar box full of coins and throw handfuls in the air for the children. Echoing the consensus on Birger, an anonymous gang member called him "enigmatic," noting that "he had a wonderful quality, a heart of gold. There in Harrisburg sometimes he'd support twelve or fifteen families, buy coal, groceries. . . . [But] he had cold eyes, a killer's eyes. He would kill you for something somebody else would punch you in the nose for." Drawing from the colorful cast of the living, the dead, and the soon-to-be-dead—a state shared by many associated with Birger and his enemies, the Shelton gang—DeNeal re-creates Prohibition-era southern Illinois. He depicts the fatal shootout between S. Glenn Young and Ora Thomas, the battle on the Herrin Masonic Temple lawn in which six were slain and the Ku Klux Klan crushed, and the wounding of Williamson County state's attorney Arlie O. Boswell. As the gang wars escalated and the roster of corpses lengthened, the gangsters embraced technology. The Sheltons bombed Birger's roadhouse, Shady Rest, from a single-engine airplane. Both Birger and the Sheltons used armored vehicles to intimidate their enemies, and the chatter of machine gun fire grew common. The gang wars ended with massive arrests, trials, and convictions of gangsters who once had seemed invincible. Charlie Birger was convicted of the murder of West City mayor Joe Adams and sentenced to death. On April 19, 1928, he stood on the gallows looking down on the large crowd that had come to see him die. "It's a beautiful world," Birger said softly as he prepared to leave it.

Murder, He Wrote

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Author : Donald Bain
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557534217
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Murder, He Wrote written by Donald Bain and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Murder, He Wrote, Bain takes the reader on a rollercoaster journey from the rousing loops of Coffee, Tea or Me and the best selling comedy series it spawned to the gravity-defying biographies of Veronica Lake, legendary talk show king Long John Nebel, and top model and CIA mind-control subject Candy Jones; from the spectacular curves and twists of the wildly successful murder mystery novels based on the TV show "Murder, She Wrote" to the creaks and squeaks of one of the most bizarre gang wars in U.S. history, Charlie and the Shawneetown Dame.

Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Bibliography of the Literacy Support Project

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Author : Betty A. Neely
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Bibliography of the Literacy Support Project written by Betty A. Neely and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Publishers Weekly

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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American Book Publishing Record

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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The Purdue Alumnus

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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The British National Bibliography

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Author : Arthur James Wells
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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AB Bookman's Weekly

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book AB Bookman's Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1987-11 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

America, History and Life

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America, History and Life written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.

The Maybelline Story and the Spirited Family Dynasty Behind It

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Author : Sharrie Williams
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1936332175
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book The Maybelline Story and the Spirited Family Dynasty Behind It written by Sharrie Williams and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1915, when a kitchen stove fire singed his sister Mabel's lashes and brows, Tom Lyle Williams watched in fascination as she performed a 'secret of the harem'-mixing petroleum jelly with coal dust and ash from a burnt cork and apply it to her lashes and brows. Mabel's simple beauty trick ignited Tom Lyle's imagination and he started what would become a billion-dollar business, one that remains a viable American icon after nearly a century. He named it Maybelline in her honor.Throughout the 20th century, the Maybelline Company inflated, collapsed, endured, and thrived in tandem with the nation's upheavals-as did the family that nurtured it. Setting up shop first in Chicago, Williams later, to avoid unwanted scrutiny of his private life, cloistered himself behind the gates of his Rudolph Valentino Villa and ran his empire from a distance.Now after nearly a century of silence, this true story celebrates the life of an American entrepreneur, a man whose vision rocketed him to success along with the woman held in his orbit, Evelyn Boecher-who became his lifelong fascination and muse. Captivated by her 'roaring charisma,' he affectionately called her the 'real Miss Maybelline' and based many of his advertising campaigns on the woman she represented: commandingly beautiful, hard-boiled and daring. Evelyn masterminded a life of vanity, but would fall prey to fortune hunters and a mysterious murder that even today remains unsolved.A fascinating and inspiring story of ambition, luck, secrecy-and surprisingly, above all, love and forgiveness, a tale both epic and intimate, alive with the clash, the hustle, the music, and dance of American enterprise.

Coffee, Tea or Me?

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Author : Donald Bain
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101098945
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Coffee, Tea or Me? written by Donald Bain and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-06-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remember when flying was glamorous and sexy, even fun? When airline food was gourmet, everyone dressed up for a flight, and stewardesses catered to our every need-at least in our imaginations? This classic memoir by two audaciously outspoken young ladies, who lived and loved the free-spirited stewardess life, jets you back to those golden days of air travel-from the captain who's as subtle as a 747 when he's on the make to the passenger who mistakes the overhead luggage rack for an upper berth; from the names of celebrities who were a pleasure to serve (and some surprising notables on the "bad guy" list) to the origins of some naughty stereotypes-Spaniards are the best lovers, actors the most foul-mouthed. This huge bestseller, a First Class jet-age journal, offers a hilarious gold mine of outrageous anecdotes from the high-flying and amorous lives of those busty, lusty, adventuresome young women of the swinging '60s known as "stews."

The Control of Candy Jones

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Author : Donald Bain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781522839101
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Control of Candy Jones written by Donald Bain and published by . This book was released on 1976-12-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Candy Jones" was the stage name of Jessica Wilcox (b. 1921) who became famous as a model and "pinup girl" in the early 1940s. Her story seems too bizarre to be true. One of America's most famous models, brainwashed by the CIA? Yes, it is another example of truth being stranger than fiction. The story begins with Candy's wedding to Long John Nebel, New York's most successful radio talk-show host. During the wedding, and regularly thereafter, Candy's personality would seem to shift. She would suddenly change from her affable, self-effacing self to a brusque, aggressive "stranger." For the first few months of the marriage, these shifts were infrequent enough that Nebel didn't worry much about it, but as time went on, they got worse. Nebel began trying to relax his wife by hypnotizing her. Although Candy insisted that she couldn't be hypnotized, she slipped easily into a relaxed state, and then into a healthy, deep sleep. But during the third session, with no suggestion from Nebel, Candy spontaneously regressed to a young age. After that, Nebel began to record their sessions. The result of these sessions was that Nebel discovered his wife had been brainwashed into have a second identity, "Arlene," whom a CIA doctor had used to carry messages all over the world. Eventually, Candy was tortured at CIA headquarters, so that her doctor could display her "successful" programming. "The Control of Candy Jones" sent shockwaves through the corridors of power when it was first published in 1976. After reportedly being suppressed by the CIA, it became an instant classic, and remains so today.

Loyola University Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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A History of the City of Cairo, Illinois

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Author : John McMurray Lansden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A History of the City of Cairo, Illinois written by John McMurray Lansden and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: