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DNSB · 03-02-2020, 02:56 PM

For March, 2020, the University of Chicago free ebook is Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago by Gillian O’Brien.

“Chicago’s reputation for dramatic crime and corruption predates Al Capone and Prohibition—by decades. In May 1889 Dr. P. H. Cronin, an esteemed physician, was found in a sewer. He was naked, dead, and savagely beaten. The investigation and trial caused an international sensation, and one of the world’s first media circuses, over a story that involved Irish revolutionaries and reactionaries, secret societies, and even a French spy.… All at a time when Chicago had been burned down, and was reborn as the fast-growing city in America.”—Scott Simon, NPR’s Weekend Edition

Check it out here.

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DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 47,092 Karma: 169815798 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	For March, 2020, the University of Chicago free ebook is Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago by Gillian O’Brien. “Chicago’s reputation for dramatic crime and corruption predates Al Capone and Prohibition—by decades. In May 1889 Dr. P. H. Cronin, an esteemed physician, was found in a sewer. He was naked, dead, and savagely beaten. The investigation and trial caused an international sensation, and one of the world’s first media circuses, over a story that involved Irish revolutionaries and reactionaries, secret societies, and even a French spy.… All at a time when Chicago had been burned down, and was reborn as the fast-growing city in America.”—Scott Simon, NPR’s Weekend Edition Check it out here.