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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823795703321

Autore

Serrano Richard A

Titolo

My grandfather's prison [[electronic resource] ] : a story of death and deceit in 1940s Kansas City / / Richard A. Serrano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8262-7198-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 p.)

Disciplina

364.152/3092

Soggetti

Murder - Missouri - Kansas City

Murder victims - Missouri - Kansas City

Murder - Investigation - Missouri - Kansas City

Alcoholics - Missouri - Kansas City

Political corruption - Missouri - Kansas City - History - 20th century

Kansas City (Mo.) Politics and government

Kansas City (Mo.) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Photo Section -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12.

Sommario/riassunto

"Author discovers the fate of the grandfather he never knew, who had abruptly abandoned his family during the Great Depression, become a prisoner to alcohol and skid row, and, entangled in the corrupt Pendergast era of Kansas City, Missouri, had finally been murdered at the old Kansas City Municipal Farm"--Provided by publisher.