Bibliograph

Wicked Akron, tales of rumrunners, mobsters, and other Rubber City rogues, Kymberli Hagelberg

Type

Label

Wicked Akron, tales of rumrunners, mobsters, and other Rubber City rogues, Kymberli Hagelberg

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Wicked Akron

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Kymberli Hagelberg

Sub title

tales of rumrunners, mobsters, and other Rubber City rogues

Summary

The searchlight finds Akron's darkest days, when citizens burned city hall to the ground and members of the Ku Klux Klan called the shots from the schoolhouse to the courthouse. Meet a grave robber who became a political leader, a mobster who ordered police murders and a beloved bootlegger turned bail bondsman. Say hello to Frank Hurn, a flashy, frenetic, fast-talking con man who was looking for suckers to invest in the Vulcans, an NFL team he promised to bring to Akron. From city saloon to suburban hideout, this is an alternative history lesson of the sometimes dicey coexistence of the well-heeled and the workers, men and women who lived big lives during Akron's fledgling days as a canal port, its pre-Depression heyday and zenith as a midwestern industrial success story

Target audience

adult

Classification