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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Cooper Edward S. <1939->"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"John McDonald and the Whiskey Ring : from thug to Grant's inner circle / / Edward S. Cooper"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Madison, [Wisconsin] ; ; Teaneck, [New Jersey] : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , 2017"]
[{"$nulls":4},"©2017"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-68393-012-6"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-68393-013-4"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations, portrait"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"364.1/338092"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Swindlers and swindling - Missouri"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Internal revenue - Missouri - History - 19th century"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Whiskey frauds - Missouri - History - 19th century"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Scandals - United States - History - 19th century"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Political corruption - United States - History - 19th century"]
[{"$nulls":4},"United States Officials and employees Biography"]
[{"$nulls":4},"United States Politics and government 1865-1877"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph"]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"The story -- Cape Girardeau-Sainte Genevieve-Paducah -- Forts Heiman, Henry, and Donelson -- Court martial and profiteering -- Supervisor of Internal Revenue -- The fraud -- The Utes -- The operation -- Grant's horses -- The unraveling -- Indictments -- Trials -- St. Louis Jail -- Grant saves Babcock -- Missouri State Penitentiary -- Pardons -- Domestic troubles -- Books wars."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","\"The most flamboyant, consistently dishonest racketeer was supervisor of Internal Revenue John McDonald, whose organization defrauded the federal government of millions of dollars. When President Grant was asked why he appointed McDonald supervisor of Internal Revenue he responded, 'I was aware that he was not an educated man, but he was a man that had seen a great deal of the world and of people, and I would not call him ignorant exactly, he was illiterate.' McDonald organized and ran the Whiskey Ring but he always credited Grant with the initiation of the Ring declaring that the president 'actually stood god-father at its christening.' The demise of the Ring rivals anything that the real or fictional Elliot Ness and his 'Untouchables' ever accomplished "]
[{"$nulls":4},"during the prohibition era in America\"--Provided by publisher."]