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A riot at a Rolling Stones concert opens this compelling story of a year-long confrontation in 1972 between the Vancouver police and the Clark Park gang, a band of unruly characters who ruled the city's east side. Corrupt cops, hapless criminals, and murder figure in this raucous history with contemporary overtones that questions which gang was tougher: the petty criminals, or the police themselves.
Aaron Chapman is a writer, historian, and musician and the author of two Vancouver nightclub histories, Live at the Commodore and Liquor, Lust, and the Law.
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Aaron Chapman: Aaron Chapman is a writer and musician with a special interest in Vancouver’s cultural history. His previous books are Liquor, Lust, and the Law: The Story of Vancouver's Legendary Penthouse Nightclub and Live at the Commodore: The Story of Vancouver's Historic Commodore Ballroom. He has been a contributor to numerous Vancouver publications and CBC Radio.
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This bloody, deadly, yet little-known story has finally been captured and brought to life in print by local historian and award-wining author Aaron Chapman in his new book ... one of the punchiest books to come out about Vancouver in a long time. -The West Ender
Just as he did in Liquor, Lust and the Law, his history of the Penthouse Nightclub, Chapman seamlessly splices true crime and social history, this time to recount the exploits of the Clark Park Gang, which was dedicated not to illegal enterprise so much as to rumbling for its own sake. -Georgia Straight
The Last Gang in Town will captivate students of crime and law enforcement and those who remember East Vancouver in the 1970s. It will also fascinate anyone keen on understanding today's very different East Van through the lens of its fighting past. -Spacing Vancouver
An engaging story ... Chapman takes his readers through some critical events that put the Clark Park gang on police radar. -The Province
The Last Gang in Town is a fascinating look back at older Vancouver. -Global BC News
A colourful tale that Aaron Chapman tells deftly in his new book. -Vancouver Sun
Well researched and written, with a narrative impulse that will appeal to a wide public, it will fascinate anyone interested in the urban histories of youth, crime, and policing in twentieth-century North America. -BC Studies
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- PublisherArsenal Pulp Press
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1551526719
- ISBN 13 9781551526713
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages224
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