A Knight of Another Sort Prohibition Days and Charlie Birger, Second Edition |
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| Author:
| DeNeal, Gary |
| Foreword by:
| Ballowe, Jim |
| Series title: | Shawnee Classics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8093-2217-6 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1998 |
| Publisher: | Southern Illinois University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $37.00 |
Book Description:
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In 1913, Charlie Birger began his career as a bootlegger, supplying Southern Illinois with whiskey and beer. Drawing on a cast of the living, the dead and the soon-to-be-dead, DeNeal recreates Prohibition-era Illinois, depicting shoot-outs, gang wars, arrests, trials and convictions.
In 1913, Charlie Birger began his career as a bootlegger, supplying Southern Illinois with whiskey and beer. Drawing on a cast of the living, the dead and the soon-to-be-dead, DeNeal recreates Prohibition-era Illinois, depicting shoot-outs, gang wars, arrests, trials and convictions.