CITY GIRL IN THE COUNTRY AND OTHER STORIES

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: HENRY REGNERY COMPANY, CHICAGO, IL, 1955

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THE DUST JACKET HAS SEVERAL TEARS AND IS PRICE CLIPPED. THE DUST JACKET IS IN A PROTECTIVE MYLAR WRAPPER. THE BOOK IS IN VERY GOOD TIGHT AND CLEAN CONDITION. THE AUTHOR WAS A FEMALE CHICAGO TRIBUNE NEWSPAPER FEATURE REPORTER WHO WROTE ABOUT ISSUES SUCH AS CHICAGO'S MEDICAL QUACKS AND A CITY GIRL'S EXPERIENCE AS A "SINGLE WOMAN" IN THE SOUTHERN ILLINOIS FARMING COUNTRYSIDE. SHE WROTE SERIES ABOUT CHICAGO'S SOOTH SAYERS AND SEERS AND CONDUCTED A VERY FASCINATING SERIES OF INTERVIEWS WITH THE ELDERLY MADAM, VIC SHAW, VIC SHAW WAS THE MOST PROMINENT FORMER MADAM IN THE PROSTITUTION SEX LEVEE ERA OF CHICAGO BESIDES THE SISTERS, MINNA AND ADA EVERLEIGH. THERE IS DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THE ROLE OF "HINKY DINK" MICHAEL KENNA AND "BATH HOUSE " JOHN COUGHLIN, THE ALDERMEN OF THE FIRST WARD WHERE THE LEVEE WAS SITUATED AND GAMBLING, DRUGS AND PROSTITUTION WERE POLITICALLY SEGREGATED AND TOLERATED FOR MANY YEAR IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY. THE ALDERMAN PROTECTED THE OPEN VICE IN THEIR DISTRICT ON THE IMMEDIATE AREA OF THE LEVEE DISTRICT THAT WAS ADJACENT TO THE CENTER OF THE DOWNTOWN AREA OF THE CITY. THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES THE ALDERMEN'S CELEBRATED AND RAUCOUS ANNUAL FIRST WARD BALL OF INFAMY AND THEIR ANNUAL SOCIAL TRAVEL EVENT TO THE RACE TRACK.FOR THE LEVEE PROSTITUTES. VIC SHAW WAS QUITE A CHARACTER AMONG THE MADAMS OF THE LEVIEE. THE AUTHOR PERSUADEDTHE ELDERLY VIC SHAW TO TALK ABOUT HER LIFE AND ADVENTURES IN SIX LONG EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS, THE INTERVIEWS WERE CONDUCTED IN VIC SHAW'S MANSION ON PRAIRIE AVENUE ON CHICAGO'S NEAR SOUTH SIDE. THE MANSION WAS CONVERTED INTO A ROOMING HOUSE. THIS ARTICLE IS WORTH THE ENTIRE BOOK FOR INSIGHT INTO THAT HISTORIC ERA OF CHICAGO'S SEGRGATED VICE HISTORY.…

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Titel
CITY GIRL IN THE COUNTRY AND OTHER STORIES
Autor
NORMA LEE BROWNING
Verlag
HENRY REGNERY COMPANY, CHICAGO, IL
Erscheinungsjahr
1955
Zustand
Very Good
Schutzumschlag
POOR CONDITION
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
Auflage
First Edition.
Abmessungen
5 3/4" X 8 1/2"
Verkäuferkataloge
CHICAGO AUTHOR, CHICAGO NOVEL, CHICAGO PUBLISHER

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