6/22/2023 0 Comments Empire of sin gary krist|a Storyville (New Orleans, La.) |x Social conditions |y 20th century. |a Murder |z Louisiana |z New Orleans |x History |y 20th century. |a Sex customs |z Louisiana |z New Orleans |x History |y 20th century. |a Jazz |x Social aspects |z Louisiana |z New Orleans |x History |y 20th century. |a Corruption |z Louisiana |z New Orleans |x History |y 20th century. Prostitutes, reformers, jazzmen, Mafiosi, politicians, and one serial killer all battle for primacy in the wild and wicked city unlike any other in the world. This early 20th-century battle centers on Tom Anderson, the czar of the city's Storyville vice district, who fights desperately to keep his empire intact as it faces onslaughts on all sides. |a Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-year war against itself, pitting the city's elite "better half" against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. Twilight of the demimonde, 1917-1920 - Exodus - A killer in the night - "Almost as if he had wings" - The Axman's jazz - The end of an empire - The soiled phoenix - Afterword: Who was the Axman? Battlegrounds of sin, 1907-1917 - The black hand - A reawakening - An incident on Franklin Street - Hard times - The new prohibitionists - Part four. Drawing boundaries, Mid-1890s-1907 - A sporting man - New sounds - Desperado - Storyville rising - Jazzmen - The sin factory - Part three. The war begins, 1890-1891 - Going respectable - The Sodom of the South - The first casualty - Retribution - Part two. |a Originally published: New York : Crown, 2014. |a Thorndike Press large print crime scene |a Waterville, Maine : |b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, |c 2015. |a Empire of sin |h : |b a story of sex, jazz, murder, and the battle for modern New Orleans / |c Gary Krist. Richard E.|a DLC |b eng |e rda |c DLC |d BTCTA |d OCLCO |d MPC |d KCP |d OCP |d MLN.Jason Weeden & Robert Kurzban's "The Hidden Agenda.Roger Moorhouse's "The Devils' Alliance".Catherine Gildiner's "Coming Ashore: A Memoir".Conevery Bolton Valencius's "The Lost History of t.Boyd Cothran's "Remembering the Modoc War".Ran Zwigenberg's "Hiroshima: The Origins of Global.Kara Cooney's "The Woman Who Would Be King".Cara Caddoo's "Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the.A black man who had killed two white policeman in the New Orleans of 1900, no matter what the circumstances, would never be allowed to explain himself in court."Learn more about the book and author at Gary Krist's website. "Nor could he have any illusions about how this adventure would end. "He didn't have many other options," as I write on that page. But page 99 finds him holed up with a rifle in the back annex of an uptown house, knowing that he is about to be found but determined not to surrender without a fight. For several days, he eludes one of the most extensive manhunts in New Orleans history. A scuffle with a New Orleans policeman turns violent, and soon Charles is on the run, leaving two dead policemen in his wake. This created great friction in New Orleans - a place previously known for relatively fluid race relations – until finally, on one hot summer night, a young black man named Robert Charles is pushed too far. Part of this effort involved the imposition of Jim Crow laws on the city’s heterogeneous black population. The episode occurs in the middle of what I characterize as New Orleans’ other civil war – a decades-long effort by the city’s wealthy Anglo-American elite to suppress the “disruptive elements” in the notoriously unruly city. Krist applied the “ Test” to his new book, Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans, and reported the following: of Empire of Sin involves one of the more brutal episodes in the book, a citywide manhunt in July of 1900 that eventually escalates into a horrific race riot. Before turning to narrative nonfiction with The White Cascade and City of Scoundrels, Gary Krist wrote three novels- Bad Chemistry, Chaos Theory, and Extravagance-and two short-story collections- The Garden State and Bone by Bone.
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