At War with Corruption
A Biography of Bill Price, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma
Published on 30. July 2021
Book
Hardback
472 pages
978-0-9847056-3-4 (ISBN)
Description
Price's career in law and politics serves as a portal into corruption in Oklahoma. Episodes in that narrative include land swindles (soonerism) at the dawn of Oklahoma history; theft of Native Americans' property and steamrolling of their cultures that reached its nadir in the Osage murders; the Supreme Court scandal of 1964-65; Leo Winters' alleged misuse of state taxes (what was the treasurer doing with the people's money?); Governor David Hall's trial and conviction on charges of extortion; prosecutions of drug syndicates, Penn Square Bank insiders, and Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners on the take; and systemic bribery in county governance that inspired this book.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Norman
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
With dust jacket
Illustrations
27 b&w images
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 198 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
1179 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9847056-3-4 (9780984705634)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Michael J. Hightower is an independent historian and the author of the two-volume chronicle Banking in Oklahoma. He has taught sociology at the University of Virginia and Washington and Lee University.
Frank Keating, a former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma, served as the state’s twenty-fifth governor (1995–2003).
Frank Keating, a former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma, served as the state’s twenty-fifth governor (1995–2003).