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Book

Blood runs green : the murder that transfixed gilded age Chicago

Call Number

  • 364.1523 O134 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Chicago, IL ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Physical Description

xiii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Contents

  • "City of big shoulders" : the convergence of the Clan
  • The United Brotherhood
  • The dynamite war
  • "Secret hatreds" : a tale of two trials
  • "Boys, I give up"
  • "The darkest and bloodiest mysteries of secret crime"
  • "The whisper of silence"
  • "Truth in essentials, imagination in non-essentials" : the press and public entertainment
  • "A theater of great sensations"
  • "Remember Cronin".

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