Tom Chorneau

Mrs. Cook and the Klan

Booze, Bloodshed, and Bigotry in America's Heartland

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A true-crime investigation of the 1925 unsolved killing of an Iowa Sunday school teacher and temperance advocate, Mrs. Cook and the Klan explores the confluence of forces that brought the Ku Klux Klan, lawless gangs, and the temperance movement together in the heartland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bison Books
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9781496235848
• ISBN-10: 1496235843
• Artikelnr.: 70609257

Autorenporträt

Tom Chorneau spent nearly thirty years as a journalist, including more than a decade as an investigative reporter for the Associated Press and the San Francisco Chronicle. He is the author of three works of fiction, including Victim Eleven.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Hawkeyes from Dixie
2. The Bridge at Davenport
3. The Witches of Temperance
4. A Schoolhouse on Every Hilltop and No Saloon in the Valley
5. The Martyr of Sioux City
6. Oily Tongued Sharpers and Swindlers
7. The Mulct Law
8. God Hates the Four-Flusher
9. A Kill Fee
10. The Suffragists
11. Last Call in Marshalltown
12. The Hyphenated Americans
13. Wet to Dry Again
14. The Hangings at Camp Dodge
15. Shootout at the Carbarn Café
16. America Is for Americans
17. Comes a Killer
18. The Investigation
19. The Prime Suspects
20. Who Killed Mrs. Cook?
Notes
Index