Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland: Sex, ViceMisdeeds in Mayor Baker's Reign by J.D. Chandler, Theresa Kennedy-Dupay

Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland: Sex, ViceMisdeeds in Mayor Baker's Reign

True Crime

J.D. Chandler, Theresa Kennedy-Dupay

160 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime informative medium-paced
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The 1917 election of Mayor George Luis Baker ushered a long era of unscrupulous greed into Portland government. While supposedly enforcing prohibition laws, Baker ordered police chief Leon Jenkins to control and profit from the bootlegging market....

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