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Krist, Gary.
Empire of Sin
[Libby] :
A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans.
Crown,
2014.
us history.
True Crime.
politics.
Underworld.
mafia.
Organized Crime.
crime.
19th Century.
american history.
Journalism.
class.
Death.
20th Century.
murder .
jazz.
wicked.
Prostitution.
serial killers.
true story.
FBI.
Thriller.
1890s.
police.
biographies.
New Orleans.
mafioso.
Prohibition.
History.
bayou.
serial killer.
politicians.
Gilded Age.
prostitute.
Sociology.
Louisiana.
turn of the century.
city of scoundrels.
storyville.
the white cascade.
historical true crime.
true crime books.
American history books.
history buff gifts.
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History.
Sociology.
True Crime.
Nonfiction.
HTML:<b>From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ <i>other</i> civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City</b><br /> <b> </b><br />      <i>Empire of Sin</i> re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans’ thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city’s elite “better half” against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. This early-20th-century battle centers on one man: Tom Anderson, the undisputed czar of the city's Storyville vice district, who fights desperately to keep his empire intact as it faces onslaughts from all sides. Surrounding him are the stories of flamboyant prostitutes, crusading moral reformers, dissolute jazzmen, ruthless Mafiosi, venal politicians, and one extremely violent serial killer, all battling for primacy in a wild and wicked city unlike...
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