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Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society That Shocked Depression-Era Detroit
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Lieferstatus: |
Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt) |
Veröffentlichung: |
Juni 2016
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Genre: |
Geschichte / Politik / Kultur |
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Amerikanische Geschichte /
Baseball /
History - U.S. /
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) /
SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History /
TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime /
USA Mittlerer Westen |
ISBN: |
9781493015702 |
EAN-Code:
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9781493015702 |
Verlag: |
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. |
Einband: |
Gebunden |
Sprache: |
English
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Dimensionen: |
H 231 mm / B 150 mm / D 41 mm |
Gewicht: |
635 gr |
Seiten: |
352 |
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Inhalt: |
A New York Times Bestseller Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Winner in True Crime Detroit, mid-1930s: In a city abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, gun-loving baseball fan Dayton Dean became ensnared in the nefarious and deadly Black Legion. The secretive, Klan-like group was executing a wicked plan of terror, murdering enemies, flogging associates, and contemplating armed rebellion. The Legion boasted tens of thousands of members across the Midwest, among them politicians and prominent citizens--even, possibly, a beloved athlete. Terror in the City of Champions opens with the arrival of Mickey Cochrane, a fiery baseball star who roused the Great Depression's hardest-hit city by leading the Tigers to the 1934 pennant. A year later he guided the team to its first championship. Within seven months the Lions and Red Wings follow in football and hockey--all while Joe Louis chased boxing's heavyweight crown. Amidst such glory, the Legion's dreadful toll grew unchecked: staged "suicides," bodies dumped along roadsides, high-profile assassination plots. Talkative Dayton Dean's involvement would deepen as heroic Mickey's Cochrane's reputation would rise. But the ballplayer had his own demons, including a close friendship with Harry Bennett, Henry Ford's brutal union buster. Award-winning author Tom Stanton weaves a stunning tale of history, crime, and sports. Richly portraying 1930s America, Terror in the City of Champions features a pageant of colorful figures: iconic athletes, sanctimonious criminals, scheming industrial titans, a bigoted radio priest, a love-smitten celebrity couple, J. Edgar Hoover, and two future presidents, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. It is a rollicking true story set at the confluence of hard luck, hope, victory, and violence. |
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