Charlie and the Shawneetown Dame: Love and Madness in the Roaring Twenties
Book Details
Author(s)
Bain, Donald
Publisher
Purdue University Press
ISBN / ASIN
155753375X
ISBN-13
9781557533753
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Sales Rank
#1,113,535
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
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.
