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The Ghosts of Eden Park
Karen Abbott
其他書名
The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
出版
Crown
, 2019-08-06
主題
History / United States / 20th Century
True Crime / Murder / General
Biography & Autobiography / Historical
ISBN
045149864X
9780451498649
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MmeEDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBook
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NEW YORK TIMES
BESTSELLER • The epic true crime story of the most successful bootlegger in American history and the murder that shocked the nation, from the
New York Times
bestselling author of
Sin in the Second City
and
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
“Gatsby-era noir at its best.”—Erik Larson
An ID Book Club Selection •
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
SMITHSONIAN
In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant named George Remus quits practicing law and starts trafficking whiskey. Within two years he's a multi-millionaire. The press calls him "King of the Bootleggers," writing breathless stories about the Gatsby-esque events he and his glamorous second wife, Imogene, host at their Cincinnati mansion, with party favors ranging from diamond jewelry for the men to brand-new cars for the women. By the summer of 1921, Remus owns 35 percent of all the liquor in the United States.
Pioneering prosecutor Mabel Walker Willebrandt is determined to bring him down. Willebrandt's bosses at the Justice Department hired her right out of law school, assuming she'd pose no real threat to the cozy relationship they maintain with Remus. Eager to prove them wrong, she dispatches her best investigator, Franklin Dodge, to look into his empire. It's a decision with deadly consequences. With the fledgling FBI on the case, Remus is quickly imprisoned for violating the Volstead Act. Her husband behind bars, Imogene begins an affair with Dodge. Together, they plot to ruin Remus, sparking a bitter feud that soon reaches the highest levels of government--and that can only end in murder.
Combining deep historical research with novelistic flair,
The Ghosts of Eden Park
is the unforgettable, stranger-than-fiction story of a rags-to-riches entrepreneur and a long-forgotten heroine, of the excesses and absurdities of the Jazz Age, and of the infinite human capacity to deceive.
Praise for
The Ghosts of Eden Park
“An exhaustively researched, hugely entertaining work of popular history that . . . exhumes a colorful crew of once-celebrated characters and restores them to full-blooded life. . . . [Abbott’s] métier is narrative nonfiction and—as this vibrant, enormously readable book makes clear—she is one of the masters of the art.”
—
The Wall Street Journal
“Satisfyingly sensational and thoroughly researched.”
—
The Columbus Dispatch
“Absorbing . . . a Prohibition-era page-turner.”
—
Chicago Tribune
