Theresa Griffin Kennedy (Poradie kníh)

Theresa Griffin Kennedy Poradie kníh

Theresa Griffin Kennedy je autorka, ktorá sa venuje kreatívnej literatúre faktu a gonzo žurnalistike. Jej štýl sa vyznačuje hyperrealistickou literárnou fikciou a poetickými esejami, často zasadenými do historických profilov obyvateľov Portlandu. Kennedy sa zasadzuje o sociálnu zmenu prostredníctvom písania, ktoré vníma ako spoločenský akt. Jej tvorba, inšpirovaná otcovým dôrazom na rozmanitosť písania, skúma rôznorodé témy s jedinečným a prenikavým pohľadom.

Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland: Sex, Vice & Misdeeds in Mayor Baker's Reign

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The 1917 election of Mayor George Luis Baker ushered a long era of unscrupulous greed into Portland government. While supposedly enforcing prohibition laws, Baker ordered police chief Leon Jenkins to control and profit from the bootlegging market. Baker filled city coffers and his friends' pockets with booze-soaked cash while sensational headlines like the 1929 affair between policeman Bill Breuning and informant Anna Schrader scandalized the city. Maligned in the press, Schrader executed a bitter campaign to recall the mayor. In 1933, a hired gunman murdered special investigator to the governor Frank Aiken a day before he would have filed a report on corruption in the city government. Authors JD Chandler and Theresa Griffin Kennedy unearth the salacious details of Baker's crooked administration in a revelatory account of prohibition in the Rose City.