Lisa Riggin

San Francisco's Queen of Vice (eBook, PDF)

The Strange Career of Abortionist Inez Brown Burns

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Produktbeschreibung

San Franciscös Queen of Vice uncovers the story of one of the most skilled, high-priced, and corrupt abortion entrepreneurs in America. Even as Prohibition was the driving force behind organized crime, abortions became the third-largest illegal enterprise as state and federal statutes combined with changing social mores to drive abortionists into hiding. Inez Brown Burns, a notorious socialite and abortionist in San Francisco, made a fortune providing her services to desperate women throughout California. Beginning in the 1920s, Burns oversaw some 150,000 abortions until her trial and conviction brought her downfall. In San Franciscös Queen of Vice, Lisa Riggin tells the story of the rise and fall of San Franciscös ¿abortion queen¿ and explores the rivalry between Burns and the city¿s newly elected district attorney, Edmund G. ¿Pat¿ Brown (father of the present governor of California). Pledging to clean up the graft-ridden city, Brown exposed the hidden yet not-so-secret life of backroom deals, political payoffs, and corrupt city cops. Through the arrest, prosecution, and conviction of Burns, Brown used his success as a stepping-stone for his political rise to Californiäs governor¿s mansion. Featuring an array of larger-than-life characters, Riggin shows how Cold War domestic ideology and the national quest to return to a more traditional America quickly developed into a battle against internal decay. Based on a combination of newspaper accounts, court records, and personal interviews, San Franciscös Queen of Vice reveals how the drama played out in the life and trial of one of the wealthiest women in California history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bison Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496203076
• Artikelnr.: 55972669

Autorenporträt

Lisa Riggin teaches history at California State University, Fullerton.   

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations    
Preface    
Prologue: The Beginning of the End    
Part 1: The Queen Bee
Chapter 1. On Trial    
Chapter 2. From the Palace to a Tent . . . and Back Again    
Chapter 3. Love Pirate    
Chapter 4. Off the Hook    
Chapter 5. “Miss X”     
Chapter 6. The Fixer     
Part 2: Edmund “Pat” Brown
Chapter 7. “Five-to-One” Odds    
Chapter 8. A “New Broom”     
Chapter 9. Cops and Robbers    
Chapter 10. Disappeared    
Part 3: The Supervisor and the Socialite
Chapter 11. Houseguests    
Chapter 12. On the Lam    
Chapter 13. “The Prophet”    
Chapter 14. Death House    
Part 4: A Grand Fight
Chapter 15. The Lone Holdout    
Chapter 16. “Accomplices and Co-Conspirators”     
Chapter 17. A Grand Fight    
Chapter 18. The End of the Road     
Part 5: Follow the Money
Chapter 19. “Baghdad by the Bay”    
Chapter 20. Wise Guys    
Chapter 21. Murder “Mis-Trial”    
Chapter 22. The Corrupt and Contented IRS    
Chapter 23. The Kefauver Committee    
Chapter 24. “Hello Again”     
Part 6: The Bone Rattler
Chapter 25. Official Closets    
Chapter 26. “That Big Wind”     
Epilogue: Death and Taxes    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index