Bourbon King (eBook)

The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition's Evil Genius

Bob Batchelor (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
503 Seiten
Diversion Books (Verlag)
978-1-63576-585-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The rise and fall of the man who cracked Prohibition to become one of the world's richest criminal masterminds-and helped inspire The Great Gatsby. Love, murder, political intrigue, mountains of cash, and rivers of bourbon The tale of George Remus is a grand spectacle and a lens into the dark heart of Prohibition. Yes, Congress gave teeth to Prohibition in October, 1919, but the law didn't stop George Remus from amassing a fortune that would be worth billions of dollars today. As one Jazz Age journalist put it, "e;Remus was to bootlegging what Rockefeller was to oil."e;Author Bob Batchelor breathes life into the largest bootlegging operation in America greater than that of Al Capone and a man considered the best criminal defense lawyer of his era. Remus bought an empire of distilleries on Kentucky's "e;Bourbon Trail"e; and used his other profession, as a pharmacist, to profit off legal loopholes. He spent millions bribing officials in the Harding Administration, and he created a roaring lifestyle that epitomized the Jazz Age over which he ruled. That is, before he came crashing down in one of the most sensational murder cases in American history: a cheating wife, the G-man who seduced her and put Remus in jail, and the plunder of a Bourbon Empire. Remus murdered his wife in cold-blood and then shocked a nation winning his freedom based on a condition he invented temporary maniacal insanity. "e;The fantastic story of George Remus makes the rest of the "e;Roaring Twenties"e; look like the "e;Boring Twenties"e; in comparison."e; -David Pietrusza, author of 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.12.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: 18th amendment • 1920s • 21st amendment • AA • Abstinence • age of excess • Al Capone • Alcohol • Alcoholics Anonymous • anti-saloon league • Arnold Rothstein • Bartender • bathtub gin • Beer • Black Market • Blanton’s • Boardwalk Empire • bootlegging • booze • bourbon trail • brewery • Bulleit • Carrie Nation • Chicago • Chicago Outfit • Cincinnati • Cocktail • Covington • Cullen-Harrison Act • DEA • Distillery • Drinking • drunk • dry • dry state • Eden Park • eighteenth amendment • Evan Williams • FBI • FDR • Flappers • Four Roses • Frances Willard • Franklin Dodge • Franklin Roosevelt • F. Scott Fitzgerald • gambino • Gangsters • gatsby • Great Depression • great experiment • hooch • Imogene Remus • Jack Daniel’s • Jazz Age • Jefferson’s • Jim Beam • Kentucky • King of the Bootleggers • knob creek • Last Call • Liquor • Louisville • Lucky Luciano • Mabel Walker Willebrandt • Mafia • Maker’s Mark • Meyer Lansky • Midwest • MOB • Moonshine • Newport • noble experiment • Ohio • Old Forester • Old Grand-Dad • Old Taylor • Pharmacist • Pogue • Purple Gang • repeal • Roaring ’20s • Roaring Twenties • Rum • rumrunner • Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre • Saloon • Scarface • Sin City • Speakeasies • Speakeasy • Spirits • St. Louis • Taft • Temperance • temporary insanity • Tennessee • The Circle • Tommy Gun • True Crime • Twenties • Twenty-First Amendment • untouchable • untouchables • Violent crime • Volstead Act • Warren G. Harding • wet • Whiskey • Whisky • wine • W. L. Weller • women’s suffrage • Woodford Reserve • Woodrow Wilson • Yellowstone
• ISBN-10: 1-63576-585-4 / 1635765854
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63576-585-4 / 9781635765854