Betting Booze And Brothels (SIGNED)

Laura OToole & Wanda Landrey

ISBN 10: 1571689176 / ISBN 13: 9781571689177

Published by Eakin Press, 2006

About this Item

Eakin Press. Used; Very Good. 8-B-39 Eakin Press 2006 Hardcover. Stated First Edition with full number line. SIGNED and Inscribed by both authors on title page. Text is clean and unmarkd. Jacket has wear at top and bottom of spine. Book Condition; Very Good Jacket Condition; Good . 2006. First Edition. TRADE PAPERBACK.

Seller Inventory # 9781571689177-02

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Betting Booze And Brothels (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Eakin Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1571689176
• ISBN 13: 9781571689177
• Binding: TRADE PAPERBACK
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Used; Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Editions
  • TEXAS HISTORY

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Synopsis

By the turn of the twentieth century, Beaumont, Texas had acquired a reputation as a rough place. Situated in the oil-soaked chaos of Spindletop, Jefferson County was a hotbed of vice. For decades, gambling and prostitution thrived as elected officials either looked the other way or took money to keep quiet. That is, until 1960 when a swashbuckling young state legislator blew into town and spearheaded an intensive investigation into the rampant vice and governmental corruption that supported it. And, at a time when such things were virtually unheard of, he and his committee played it out on live television. When the dust finally cleared, the local governments of Jefferson County were turned inside out.