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Whispering Wires: The Tragic Tale of an American Bootlegger

Whispering Wires: The Tragic Tale of an American Bootlegger - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Philip MetcalfePublish date:2021-08-25Pages:370
Language:EnglishPublisher:Amy RossISBN-13:9780578980225ISBN-10:578980223UPC:9780578980225Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:United States, Modern, Criminals & OutlawsBook Topic:State & Local, 20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.82 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SCT8548TPR

Philip Metcalfe has described his role as an author as that of a "painter who endows a lost world with the personality and the dailiness it once possessed." In Whispering Wires, Metcalfe tells the story of Roy Olmstead, one of the principal bootleggers in Prohibition-era Seattle, and the first major federal court case concerning the use of wiretaps. He writes, "Set into motion then was a constellation of conditions that no one could have foretold. Prohibition had produced a shadow universe governed by an aberrant moral algebra." This historical narrative follows the city officials, Prohibition agents, and rumrunners who chased, evaded, and double-crossed each other during one of Seattle's most thrilling eras.


Language:EnglishPublisher:Amy RossISBN-13:9780578980225ISBN-10:578980223UPC:9780578980225Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:United States, Modern, Criminals & OutlawsBook Topic:State & Local, 20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.82 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SCT8548TPR
Publisher: Amy Ross

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Philip Metcalfe

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