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Moonshine and the Dixie Mafia

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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Moonshine and the Dixie Mafia written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History Of Stock Cars, Stills and Southern Outlaws! Discover Dixie and all its distinct and colorful history! Home to the finest whisky and bourbon, the American South is known for many things, including its charming drawl and glorious mountain ranges. However, there is another side to Southern history steeped in mystique, communal survival, ingenuity, brilliant entrepreneurship and distrust of the government. In this three-part documentary series you will hear the true stories of the crime, corruption and hard liquor production that influenced the customs and culture of the Deep South. From the creation of the Stock-Car, to the battles between the good and evil players of the Dixie Mafia, hear the fascinating stories behind the legendary bootleggers of the South and how they risked it all to answer their nation's call for good illegal booze!

Rock Solid

Author : Billy Stonewall Birt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781680260427
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Rock Solid written by Billy Stonewall Birt and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of Georgia's 'Dixie Mafia' has never been told. At its core was one man and he was bigger than life. He was the author and enforcer of the rules that governed the entire organization. He set the standard of code that made the 'Dixie Mafia" impenetrable. And he was the one that anyone who broke that code would have to face. His name was Billy Sunday Birt and this is his story" --page 4 cover.

Silenced by the Dixie Mafia

Author : Synova Cantrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578738345
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Silenced by the Dixie Mafia written by Synova Cantrell and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is no other group anywhere in the country as mobile and as well organized as the Dixie Mafia" - Agent James Duff, Georgia State Organized Crime Intelligence Unit (1974)Deep in the heart of Dixie lies a hidden evil. It's tentacles stretch from state to state, from county to county. The Dixie Mafia has produced infamous outlaws, bank robbers, and murderers. The story contains tidbits from each of their lives and even includes the story of a famous sheriff, but this book is not about them.Silenced by the Dixie Mafia is about a big sister who has fought for answers for over five decades. It's about a father who was an ex-alcoholic turned into a gambling addict. A father's decisions would lead to the death of his disabled son and eventually lead to his own demise. Now left alone to find answers and make sense of the chaos is a brave little southern belle named Phyllis. Tying back to the ambush of Sheriff Buford Pusser on August 12, 1967, this story will change history as we know it. The world knew nothing about the Dixie Mafia until the murders of Judge Vincent Sherry and his wife Margaret in 1987. This public assassination brought this band of ruthless criminals into view, but the truth was still hidden until the death of the Andersons.

Mississippi Moonshine Politics

Author : Janice Branch Tracy
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1626197601
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Mississippi Moonshine Politics written by Janice Branch Tracy and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most states, the repeal of prohibition meant a return to a state of legally drunken normalcy, but not so in Mississippi. The Magnolia State went dry over a decade before the nation, leaving bootleggers to establish political and financial holds they were unwilling to lose. For nearly sixty years, bootlegging flourished, and Mississippi became known as the "wettest dry state in the country." Law enforcement tried in vain to control crime that followed each empty bottle. Until statewide prohibition was finally repealed in 1966, illegal booze fueled a corrupt political machine that intimidated journalists who dared to speak against it and fixed juries that threatened its interests. Author and native Mississippian Janice Branch Tracy delivers an intimate look at the story of Mississippi's moonshine empire.

Moonshine Nation

Author : Mark Spivak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493012460
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Moonshine Nation written by Mark Spivak and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moonshine is corn whiskey, traditionally made in improvised stills throughout the Appalachian South. While quality varied from one producer to another, the whiskey had one thing in common: It was illegal because the distiller refused to pay taxes to the US government. Many moonshiners were descendants of Scots-Irish immigrants who had fought in the original Whiskey Rebellion in the early 1790s. They brought their knowledge of distilling with them to America along with a profound sense of independence and a refusal to submit to government authority. Today many Southern states have relaxed their laws and now allow the legal production of moonshine—provided that taxes are paid. Yet many modern moonshiners retain deep links to their bootlegging heritage. Moonshine Nation is the story of moonshine’s history and origins alongside profiles of modern moonshiners—and a collection of drink recipes from each.

The Cornbread Mafia

Author : James Higdon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493038508
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Cornbread Mafia written by James Higdon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. In doing so, he set into motion a series of events that defined him and his associates as the largest homegrown marijuana syndicate in American history, also known as the Cornbread Mafia. Author James Higdon—whose relationship with Johnny Boone, currently a federal fugitive, made him the first journalist subpoenaed under the Obama administration—takes readers back to the 1970s and ’80s and the clash between federal and local law enforcement and a band of Kentucky farmers with moonshine and pride in their bloodlines. By 1989 the task force assigned to take down men like Johnny Boone had arrested sixty-nine men and one woman from busts on twenty-nine farms in ten states, and seized two hundred tons of pot. Of the seventy individuals arrested, zero talked. How it all went down is a tale of Mafia-style storylines emanating from the Bluegrass State, and populated by Vietnam veterans and weed-loving characters caught up in Tarantino-level violence and heart-breaking altruism. Accompanied by a soundtrack of rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues, this work of dogged investigative journalism and history is told by Higdon in action-packed, colorful and riveting detail.

Gangster

Author : Lorenzo Carcaterra
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345459547
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Gangster written by Lorenzo Carcaterra and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2002-07-30 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love. Violence. Destiny. These powerful themes ricochet through Lorenzo Carcaterra’s new novel like bullets from a machine gun. In Gangster, he surpasses even his bestselling Sleepers to create a brutal and brilliant American saga of murder, forgiveness, and redemption. Born in the midst of tragedy and violence and raised in the shadow of a shocking secret, young Angelo Vestieri chooses to flee both his past and his father to seek a second family—the criminals who preside over early 20th century New York. In his bloody rise from soldier to mob boss, he encounters ever more barbaric betrayals—in friendship, in his brutal business, in love—yet simultaneously comes to understand the meaning of loyalty, the virtue of relationships, and gains a perspective on the lonely, if powerful, life he has chosen. As the years pass, as enemies are made and defeated, as wars are fought and won, the old don meets an abandoned boy who needs a parent as much as protection. By taking Gabe under his wing and teaching him everything he knows, Angelo Vestieri will learn, in the winter of his life, which is greater: his love for the boy he cherishes, or his need to be a gangster and to live by the savage rules he helped create. A sweeping panoramic with riveting characters, a unique understanding of the underworld philosophy, and a relentless pace, Gangster travels through the time of godfathers and goodfellas to our own world of suburban Sopranos. But this is more than just an authentic chronicle of crime. Setting a new standard for this acclaimed author, Gangster is a compassionate portrait of one man's fight against his fate—and an unforgettable epic of a family, a city, a century.

The Dixie Mafia

Author : D. M. Kern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book The Dixie Mafia written by D. M. Kern and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Devil Lives in Georgia

Author : Keith Reiss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781695204126
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Devil Lives in Georgia written by Keith Reiss and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-29 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the bucolic hill country of North Georgia, investigative journalist Kent Griffin is murdered with diabolic finesse. He's left Los Angeles to take over a failing weekly newspaper in Cleveland, Georgia. Soon he discovers secrets that the old boy establishment led by Roy Jinks, the county sheriff, cannot afford to read in the White County News. Jinks' once local crime family slowly expands into a widespread network of corrupt officials and ruthless thugs allied with the Dixie Maffia from Atlanta and beyond. Kent's young reporter, Ashley Brook, and her fianc�, Jim Lipscomb, join several of their friends for a convivial party with Linda and Kent the night before his death. Despite official pronouncements, they all know there was no suicide. Ignoring tremendous peril, Ashley and Jim delve headlong into an unfamiliar spiderweb of corruption and raw power-and the seductive mystique of a tiny Appalachian enclave nestling in the footings of Ash Mountain. They press to uncover the truth and to complete Kent's solo crusade, accumulating evidence implicating the entrenched criminal consortium. And at last, they must consider how to approach the authorities-uncorrupted authorities. But who are they?

Wicked Phenix City

Author : Faith Serafin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162585076X
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Wicked Phenix City written by Faith Serafin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Las Vegas, there was Phenix City, Alabama--the original sin city. Once the sprawling capital of the Muscogee Indian Empire, the region took a sinister turn when a holy war engulfed the southern territories in 1812, leading to the murder of the infamous Chief William McIntosh. Later, atrocities continued at Fort Mitchell, the killing grounds for early Georgia politicians who fought to the death over rival politics and bitter feuds. By the 1950s, Phenix City was home to the "Dixie Mafia," and crime and corruption ruled over the little riverfront city. Take a walk with author Faith Serafin as she travels through the darkest recesses of Phenix City's past.

Dawn of the Dixie Mafia

Author : Synova Cantrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Dawn of the Dixie Mafia written by Synova Cantrell and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most deadly enemy you will face in the entirety of your career is the Dixie Mafia based out of Phenix City, Alabama." - Major Cullen O'Conner to General Haggerty From their birthplace in Phenix City, Alabama to the corruption of today, the Dixie Mafia's tentacles stretch from coast to coast throughout the south. While most of the world denies their existence, this network of freelance criminals have flown under the radar for the most part since the 1950s. Their structure is completely different than that of La Cosa Nostra so people discount them as rogue bands of individual criminals. In reality it's one massive web of corruption, lies, and murder. Check out Synova's latest book called Dawn of the Dixie Mafia to find out how all of these random crimes fit together.

Italians in New Orleans

Author : Joseph Maselli
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738516929
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Italians in New Orleans written by Joseph Maselli and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1850 and 1870, New Orleans boasted the largest Italian-born population of any city in the United States. Its early Italian immigrants included musicians, business leaders, and diplomats. Sadly, in 1891, 11 members of the large Sicilian settlement in New Orleans were victims of the largest mass lynching in American history. However, by 1910, the city's French Quarter was a "Little Palermo" with Italian entrepreneur, laborers, and restauranteurs dominating the scene.

The Crescent City Lynchings

Author : Tom Smith
Publisher : Globe Pequot
ISBN 13 : 9781592289011
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Crescent City Lynchings written by Tom Smith and published by Globe Pequot. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1890, a group of Italian immigrants and Italian Americans were accused of gunning down New Orleans police chief David Hennessy, who had come between two rival waterfront gangs. Nineteen men were indicted; nine stood trial. After six of the nine accused were acquitted and the remaining three awarded mistrials, a vigilante mob of 8,000 people fought their way into the Parish Prison and killed eleven of the defendants. The incident drew anti- American ire from across the world, and even brought the U.S. to the brink of war with Italy until formal reparations were made. Tom Smith presents an in-depth and nuanced account of the episode that was the greatest mass lynching in our nation's history, and which popularized the term Mafia in the American lexicon.

Arc Road

Author : Tony Tiffin
Publisher : ARC Road
ISBN 13 : 9781734915105
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Arc Road written by Tony Tiffin and published by ARC Road. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arc Road is more than an interesting piece of history; the story of three murdered police officers over 55 years ago. On that night in April 1964, the dangers presented by psychopaths were thrust into the consciousness of every man and woman who wear that badge, all over America and indeed the world.

The Mob and the City

Author : C. Alexander Hortis
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616149248
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Mob and the City written by C. Alexander Hortis and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget what you think you know about the Mafia. After reading this book, even life-long mob aficionados will have a new perspective on organized crime. Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the Mafia came to dominate organized crime in New York City during the 1930s through 1950s. Based on exhaustive research of archives and secret files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, author and attorney C. Alexander Hortis draws on the deepest collection of primary sources, many newly discovered, of any history of the modern mob. Shattering myths, Hortis reveals how Cosa Nostra actually obtained power at the inception. The author goes beyond conventional who-shot-who mob stories, providing answers to fresh questions such as: * Why did the Sicilian gangs come out on top of the criminal underworld? * Can economics explain how the Mafia families operated? * What was the Mafia's real role in the drug trade? * Why was Cosa Nostra involved in gay bars in New York since the 1930s? Drawing on an unprecedented array of primary sources, The Mob and the City is the most thorough and authentic history of the Mafia's rise to power in the early-to-mid twentieth century.

Side by Side

Author : T.J. Ray
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455621846
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Side by Side written by T.J. Ray and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true crime story of a gruesome double homicide in the Jim Crow South, and the manhunt and trial that followed. In Oxford, Mississippi, the dawn of the twentieth century seemed to present a sweeping landscape of progress and possibility. But under this veneer of technological advancement, cultural achievement, and prosperity lurked a stubborn core of racial discrimination, rampant criminal brutality, and violence. On a Sunday morning in 1901, the mutilated corpses of two federal marshals were discovered in the smoldering remains of the home of a notorious local malefactor. The murders, committed by moonshiner and counterfeiter Will Mathis and his father-in-law’s servant Orlando Lester, captivated the nation. The crimes ignited a manhunt, a trial marked by desperate lies and legerdemain, and a media frenzy around the hanging of a white man and a black man side by side. This enthralling account centers on two men—judged unequal in life but equal in death. The story draws on primary sources to craft a spellbinding narrative of singular immediacy and vitality. With the consummate skill of a master raconteur, author T. J. Ray powerfully evokes an era, a community, and its people.

Willie Brown

Author : James Richardson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520327268
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Willie Brown written by James Richardson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive biography of Willie Brown, one of California's most enduring and controversial politicians. Audacious, driven, talented—Brown has dominated California politics longer and more completely than any other public figure. James Richardson, a senior writer for The Sacramento Bee, takes us from Brown's childhood, through his years as Speaker of the State Assembly, to his election as San Francisco's mayor. Along the way we get a riveting, behind-the-scenes account of three decades of California politics.