James Eli Shiffer

The King of Skid Row

John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis

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Produktbeschreibung

"Following John Bacich, who documented the last days of downtown Minneapolis's Skid Row neighborhood in the 1950s, The King of Skid Row recreates the violent, alcohol-soaked history of an area of the city now completely redesigned and developed, transformed dramatically from its gritty past"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781517916596
• ISBN-10: 1517916593
• Artikelnr.: 67865017

Autorenporträt

James Eli Shiffer has been a professional journalist for thirty years and is an editor at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. In 2010, he partnered with Ewen Media to create Rubbed Out, a multimedia history of the murder of a journalist in Minneapolis in 1945. He was a member of the Star Tribune team whose coverage of the killing of George Floyd and subsequent civil unrest was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Prologue: A Bum’s Paradise
Introduction: Snapshots
1. Johnny Rex
2. The Gandies
3. Ring in the Booze
4. The Flophouse
5. Missions
6. The Lost City
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index