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Title: The First Vice Lord
Condition: New
Format: Hardback
Subtitle: Big Jim Colosemo and the Ladies of the Levee
ISBN-10: 1581826397
EAN: 9781581826395
ISBN: 9781581826395
Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing,US
Release Date: 17/07/2008
Description: THE FIRST VICE LORD is the story of the life and death of Big Jim Colosimo and Chicago's infamous segregated red-light district--the Levee. For the first time, the true story is told of the colorful characters who peopled the Levee from the time of the Columbian Exposition to the Roaring Twenties, clearly the most colorful period in Chicago's history. The product of five years of research through Chicago daily newspapers, magazines, and periodicals, and books on the city's history, it documents the story as it occurred, with all of the sights, sounds, and smells of that lusty, unruly era. THE FIRST VICE LORD is the story of an immigrant Italian lad who grew up in the tenements of Chicago, where he worked first as a lowly street sweeper, then as a brothel operator and vice lord, and finally as the owner of the most famous restaurant of his day. His story is told against the backdrop of an open red-light district so famous it was known to the crown heads of Europe.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 160mm
Item Length: 229mm
Item Width: 33mm
Item Weight: 635g
Author: Arthur J. Bilek
Genre: Biography
Release Year: 2008

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