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9781557533753

Charlie and the Shawneetown Dame Love and Madness in the Roaring Twenties, An Incredible True Story

Charlie and the Shawneetown Dame Love and Madness in the Roaring Twenties, An Incredible True Story
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  • ISBN-13: 9781557533753
  • ISBN: 155753375X
  • Publication Date: 2004
  • Publisher: Purdue University Press

AUTHOR

Bain, Donald

SUMMARY

This book recounts a famous turf war raged during Prohibition. Charlie Birger's outsized ambitions brought him from New York to southern Illinois in search of fortune as a bootlegger. He soon found that his dream to be "even bigger than Al Capone" faced a few hurdles-including the vicious Shelton Brothers and Helen Holbrook, a beautiful, alcoholic socialite from Shawneetown, whose simultaneous affairs with Birger and Carl Shelton fueled a bloody and bizarre gang war.Bain, Donald is the author of 'Charlie and the Shawneetown Dame Love and Madness in the Roaring Twenties, An Incredible True Story', published 2004 under ISBN 9781557533753 and ISBN 155753375X.

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