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Terror in the City of Champions : Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society That Shocked Depression-Era Detroit by Tom Stanton (2016, Hardcover)

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Terror in the City of Champions by Tom Stanton. Title Terror in the City of Champions. Format Hardcover. Author Biography.

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A New York Times Bestseller Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Winner in True Crime Detroit, mid-1930s: In a city abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, gun-loving baseball fan Dayton Dean became ensnared in the nefarious and deadly Black Legion. The secretive, Klan-like group was executing a wicked plan of terror, murdering enemies, flogging associates, and contemplating armed rebellion. The Legion boasted tens of thousands of members across the Midwest, among them politicians and prominent citizens-even, possibly, a beloved athlete. Terror in the City of Champions opens with the arrival of Mickey Cochrane, a fiery baseball star who roused the Great Depression's hardest-hit city by leading the Tigers to the 1934 pennant. A year later he guided the team to its first championship. Within seven months the Lions and Red Wings follow in football and hockey-all while Joe Louis chased boxing's heavyweight crown. Amidst such glory, the Legion's dreadful toll grew unchecked: staged "suicides," bodies dumped along roadsides, high-profile assassination plots. Talkative Dayton Dean's involvement would deepen as heroic Mickey's Cochrane's reputation would rise. But the ballplayer had his own demons, including a close friendship with Harry Bennett, Henry Ford's brutal union buster. Award-winning author Tom Stanton weaves a stunning tale of history, crime, and sports. Richly portraying 1930s America, Terror in the City of Champions features a pageant of colorful figures: iconic athletes, sanctimonious criminals, scheming industrial titans, a bigoted radio priest, a love-smitten celebrity couple, J. Edgar Hoover, and two future presidents, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. It is a rollicking true story set at the confluence of hard luck, hope, victory, and violence.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Globe Pequot Press, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1493015702
ISBN-13
9781493015702
eBay Product ID (ePID)
217074592

Product Key Features

Book Title
Terror in the City of Champions : Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society That Shocked Depression-Era Detroit
Author
Tom Stanton
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Murder / General, Business Aspects, Baseball / General, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, IL, in, Ks, MI, MN, MO, Nd, Ne, OH, Sd, Wi), General, Organized Crime
Publication Year
2016
Genre
True Crime, Sports & Recreation, History
Number of Pages
352 Pages

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Item Length
9.4in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.6in
Item Weight
0 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Hv6534.D6s73 2016
Reviews
"Once in a blue moon, a city bears witness to the best and the worst of times. Such was Detroit's fate more than a generation ago as the Tigers, Lions and Red Wings reached new sports heights while the Black Legion too often ruled the night. It's a great tale and Tom Stanton has done a marvelous job telling it." --Tim Wendel, author of Summer of '68
Copyright Date
2016
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2015-043482
Dewey Decimal
364.15230977434
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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