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Languages:EnglishPublisher:History Press Library EditionsISBN-13:9781540236371ISBN-10:1540236374UPC:9781540236371Book Category:History, Photography, True CrimeBook Subcategory:United States, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:State & Local, RegionalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.85Product ID:SCZ51CKX8Q
Muckraking journalist Walter Liggett dubbed Pittsburgh the "Metropolis of Corruption" in 1930 when he reported the city had more vice per square foot than New York, Detroit, Cleveland or Boston. Decades earlier, the Magee-Flinn political machine ruled public officials, and crooked police helped racketeers protect brothels and gambling dens. Mayor (later Governor) David Lawrence was indicted several times for graft but acquitted each time. Even Pittsburgh Steelers founder Art Rooney Sr. colluded with gangsters, according to FBI reports. Join author Richard Gazarik as he reveals the wicked history of the Steel City.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:History Press Library EditionsISBN-13:9781540236371ISBN-10:1540236374UPC:9781540236371Book Category:History, Photography, True CrimeBook Subcategory:United States, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:State & Local, RegionalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.85Product ID:SCZ51CKX8Q
Gazarik, Richard: - Richard Gazarik spent more than four decades as a journalist in Western Pennsylvania. He has won awards for his writing and investigating reporting into public and corporate corruption in Pennsylvania and has written extensively about the bombing of Pam Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie Scotland; the terrorist attack on United Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on September 11, 2001; and the rescue of the Quecreek Miners in 2002. He is the author of Black Valley: The Life and Death of Fannie Sellins (2011) and Prohibition Pittsburgh (The History Press, 2017). He is a graduate of West Virginia University.
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