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Gentlemen Bootleggers: The True Story of Templeton Rye, Prohibition, and a Small Town in Cahoots

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Availability:In StockContributor:Bryce T. BauerPublish date:2016-10-01Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Chicago Review PressISBN-13:9781613735220ISBN-10:1613735227UPC:9781613735220Book Category:History, True CrimeBook Subcategory:United States, Organized CrimeBook Topic:20th Century, State & LocalSize:8.70 x 5.70 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCX44XP9KM

Gentlemen Bootleggers: The True Story of Templeton Rye, Prohibition, and a Small Town in Cahoots

2014 Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award Winner

2015 Spirited AwardsTop Ten Finalist


During Prohibition, while Al Capone was rising to worldwide prominence as Public Enemy Number One, the townspeople of rural Templeton, Iowa--population just 428--were busy with a bootlegging empire of their own. Led by Joe Irlbeck, the whip-smart and gregarious son of a Bavarian immigrant, the outfit of farmers, small...



Language:EnglishPublisher:Chicago Review PressISBN-13:9781613735220ISBN-10:1613735227UPC:9781613735220Book Category:History, True CrimeBook Subcategory:United States, Organized CrimeBook Topic:20th Century, State & LocalSize:8.70 x 5.70 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCX44XP9KM
Bryce T. Bauer is a Hearst Award-winning journalist who has written for Saveur, the Daily Iowan, the Cedar Rapids Gazette, and other publications. He is coproducing and cowriting the documentary Whiskey Cookers: The Amazing Story of the Bootleggers of Templeton, Iowa. He lives in New York City.


Publisher: Chicago Review Press

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Bryce T. Bauer

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