
Lords of the Levee
The Story of Bathhouse John and Hinky Dink
Northwestern University Press
Will be published approx. on 30. November 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
385 pages
978-0-8101-2320-5 (ISBN)
Description
In the early twentieth century, John Coughlin and Mike Kenna ruled Chicago's First Ward, the lucrative lakefront territory and nerve center of the city. It encompassed City Hall and the Loop and the mansions of Michigan Avenue. More significantly, it was one of the most infamous havens for vice in the entire country, home to gambling palaces with marble floors and mahogany bars, to a mini-city of thugs and prostitutes and down-and-outers, to dives and saloons of every description and a few beyond description. In short, the First was a gold mine. In a city where money talked, it made boisterous Bathhouse John and the laconic Hinky Dink Kenna the most powerful men in town. This classic of Chicago-style journalism traces the careers of these two operators, one a former bathhouse rubman, the other once the Chicago Tribune's loudest newsboy as they rose to the top of the city's political world.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations, map, ports.
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
517 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-2320-5 (9780810123205)
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Persons
Lloyd Wendt (birth date??) was a long-time Chicago Journalist and the author of Chicago Tribune: The Rise of a Great American Newspaper (Rand McNatly, 1979), and (with Herman Kogan) Give the Lady What She Wants: The Story of Marshall Field &