Portland on the Take (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Jd Chandler | knygos.lt

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In an era
when Portland’s shipyards thrived, so, too, did corruption. The Red Scare that
followed the 1934 Waterfront Strike allowed gangsters to gain control of some
of the city’s unions. Working in cahoots with high-ranking city officials,
criminals like Al Winter and James Elkins gained power and influence, often
using “goon squads” of union men and hired criminals to enforce their will. Now
authors JD Chandler and JB Fisher bring Portland’s days of civic corruption and
hidden murders out of the shadows. With unprecedented access to the police
investigative files of the Frank Tatum murder of 1947 and the detective
notebooks and tape recorder transcripts of Multnomah County sheriff’s detective
Walter Graven, the authors shed new light on Portland’s turbulent
mid-twentieth-century past.