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Broadway Butterfly: Vivian Gordon: The Lady Gangster of Jazz Age New York

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Broadway Butterfly: Vivian Gordon: The Lady Gangster of Jazz Age New York Broadway Butterfly: Vivian Gordon: The Lady Gangster of Jazz Age New York

作者:DeStefano 
出版社:Citadel Press
出版日期:2024-06-25
語言:英文   規格:精裝 / 352頁 / 22.86 x 15.24 cm / 普通級/ 初版
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圖書名稱:Broadway Butterfly: Vivian Gordon: The Lady Gangster of Jazz Age New York

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The definitive, jaw-dropping account of the Jazz Age con woman, escort, speakeasy owner, and racketeer Vivian Gordon, whose sensational murder - and the damning list of powerful politicos, gangsters, and businessmen left behind in her diary - captivated Prohibition-era New York, obsessed its then-governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, ensnared its mayor, and exposed the city’s dark underbelly of police corruption. From Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning mob historian Anthony M. Destefano.

Like so many other pretty butterflies, Indiana-born Vivian Gordon fluttered to New York in 1920 looking for fame and fortune. Before long, the flame-haired chorus girl parlayed her youth, beauty, and ambition into more profitable means as a tough and glamorous symbol of Prohibition-era excess. She was a speakeasy owner, blackmailer, high-end escort, extortionist, racketeer, and con woman. But given her dangerously intimate associations--from ruthless underworld gangsters to corrupt high-ranking city officials--Vivian was also a woman who knew too much and who rightfully feared for her life.

On February 26, 1931, Vivian’s bludgeoned and garroted body was found dumped in Van Cortland Park in the Bronx. Now, in the first in-depth biography of its kind, Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning journalist Anthony M. DeStefano unravels her tumultuous life and the headline-making murder that became an obsession for many, including then-Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The evidence Vivian left behind was damning: a diary with more than 300 names implicating powerful officials, philanthropists, businessmen, and every major gangland figure in collusion and corruption. The probe eventually resulted in the career-endinginvestigation of James "Jimmy" Walker, disgraced mayor of New York City. Ultimately, Broadway Butterfly finally finds a place in history for Vivian, a woman with a rare legacy in gangster lore, whose demise was as tragically inevitable as the brutality of the city’s demimondeduring Prohibition.

 

作者簡介

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony M. DeStefano has covered organized crime for over three decades, including the crime beat for New York Newsday for the past twenty years. Known as the preeminent mob historian, his books on organized crime include The Big Heist, Gangland New York, King of the Godfathers, Mob Killer, Top Hoodlum, The Big Heist, and Gotti’s Boys, among others. He lives in New Jersey. Please visit him online at TonyDeStefano.com.

 

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  • ISBN:9780806543147
  • 規格:精裝 / 352頁 / 22.86 x 15.24 cm / 普通級 / 初版
  • 出版地:美國
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