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Stanton Tom <1960-> |
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Terror in the city of champions : murder, baseball, and the secret society that shocked Depression-era Detroit / / Tom Stanton |
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Guilford, Connecticut : , : Lyons Press, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Murder - Michigan - Detroit - History - 20th century |
Professional sports - Michigan - Detroit - History - 20th century |
Baseball - Michigan - Detroit - History - 20th century |
Detroit (Mich.) History 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Prologue; Part I: Something Afoot: 1933-1934; Mickey and Dayton; A Friend Disappears; Spring in Lakeland; Major-General Bert; A Future Together; The Bee Is Buzzing; Neither Threats Nor Bribes; It Hurt for Days; The Little Stone Chapel; The Superstitious Schoolboy and His Gal; Happy Rosh Hashanah, Hank; Oh, Those Dean Boys; The Attorney down the Street; Part II: Grand Plans: 1935; A New Year; Mr. Hoover, Investigate; Harry's Caravan; The Radio Priest; The Killing of Silas Coleman; Worries; Unwanted Attention; Zero Hour; Louis vs. Baer; World Champions; Amid the Joy, Punishment |
The Pastor Who Said NoUncle Frank; Come to Detroit, Lindbergh; Part III: Joy and Terror: 1936; Case Closed; City of Champions; Rumors; Poole and Pidcock; Secrets; Black Legion Hysteria; Frenzied Nerves; Dayton Dean and the Negro Reporter; The Captain; Wyoming; The Cover-Up; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Detroit, mid-1930s: In a city abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, gun-loving baseball fan Dayton Dean became ensnared in the nefarious and deadly Black Legion. The secretive, Klan-like group was executing a wicked plan of terror, murdering enemies, flogging associates, and |
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contemplating armed rebellion. The Legion boasted tens of thousands of members across the Midwest, among them politicians and prominent citizens-even, possibly, a beloved athlete. Terror in the City of Champions opens with the arrival of Mickey Cochrane, a fiery baseball star who roused the Great Depression's hardest-hi |
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