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Wolraich Michael
The Bishop And The Butterfly Murder Politics And The End Of The Jazz Age
The Bishop And The Butterfly Murder Politics And The End Of The Jazz Age
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Description: The 1931 murder of Broadway Butterfly Vivian Gordon exposed an explosive story of graft corruption and entrapment that went all the way to the top of the state. Wolraich brings a journalist's eye and a novelist's elegance to this story of Jazz Age New York. New York Times Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck. At her stylish Manhattan apartment detectives discovered notebooks full of names businessmen socialites gangsters. And something else: a letter from an anti - corruption commission established by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Led by the imperious Judge Samuel Seabury the commission had uncovered a police conspiracy to frame women as prostitutes. Had Vivian Gordon been executed to bury her secrets? As FDR pressed the police to solve her murder Judge Seabury pursued the trail of corruption to the top of Gotham's powerful political machine the infamous Tammany Hall.
Title: The Bishop And The Butterfly Murder Politics And The End Of The Jazz Age
Author(s): Wolraich Michael
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
Barcode: 9781454948025
Pages: 352 Pages, 54 B-W Images
Publication Date: 2/6/2024
Category: History Of The Americas
Description: The 1931 murder of Broadway Butterfly Vivian Gordon exposed an explosive story of graft corruption and entrapment that went all the way to the top of the state. Wolraich brings a journalist's eye and a novelist's elegance to this story of Jazz Age New York. New York Times Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck. At her stylish Manhattan apartment detectives discovered notebooks full of names businessmen socialites gangsters. And something else: a letter from an anti - corruption commission established by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Led by the imperious Judge Samuel Seabury the commission had uncovered a police conspiracy to frame women as prostitutes. Had Vivian Gordon been executed to bury her secrets? As FDR pressed the police to solve her murder Judge Seabury pursued the trail of corruption to the top of Gotham's powerful political machine the infamous Tammany Hall.
Title: The Bishop And The Butterfly Murder Politics And The End Of The Jazz Age
Author(s): Wolraich Michael
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
Barcode: 9781454948025
Pages: 352 Pages, 54 B-W Images
Publication Date: 2/6/2024
Category: History Of The Americas