Egan's Rats: The Untold Story of the Prohibition-Era Gang That Ruled St. Louis.

Waugh, Daniel.

ISBN 10: 1581825757 / ISBN 13: 9781581825756

Editore: Cumberland House Publishing, 2007

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Hardcover with a dust jacket, minor wear, binding tight and pages bright, a very nice copy.

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• Titolo: Egan's Rats: The Untold Story of the Prohibition-Era Gang That Ruled St. Louis.
• Editore: Cumberland House Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1581825757
• ISBN 13: 9781581825756
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Very good
• Peso: 20 once
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • True Crime

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Led by two childhood pals, Thomas "Snake" Kinney and Tom Egan, the Egan's Rats emerged from St. Louis's Irish slums. They learned their trade the old-fashioned way, via robberies, brawls, burglaries, and shootings. When Kinney ran on the Democratic ticket in the third ward, his friends were at the polls to ensure he got enough votes. For nearly ten years the gang cut a large swath in St. Louis, instilling fear wherever it went. With Snake Kinney, a Missouri state senator and Tom Egan, St. Louis's most dangerous gangster, the gang boasted nearly 400 members. Nearly everyone who lived in St. Louis was touched by them in some way or another. Egan's Rats provides a fascinating glimpse into a past that wasn't always idyllic. It was an era in which roving gangs of thugs terrorized voters with impunity, when alcohol was illegal, when a gangster could brag of his power in the newspaper, and when the tendrils of St. Louis crime reached all the way into the White House.

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We never shoot unless we know who is present, gang boss Tom Egan declared in a candid interview with a. leading St. Louis newspaper. Just who was this man who could boast in public about ordering murder? After nearly a century, the story of the Egans Rats can finally be told: how a group of Victorian-era street punks mushroomed into a powerful force that controlled Missouris largest city for nearly thirty years.
Led by two childhood pals, Thomas Snake Kinney and Tom Egan, the Rats emerged from the citys Irish slums. They learned their trade the old-fashioned was, via robberies, brawls, burglaries, and shootings. When Kinney ran on the Democratic ticket in the Third Ward, his friends were at the polls to ensure he received enough votes to win. For nearly ten years, the gang cut a large swath in St. Louis, spreading fear wherever it went. With Snake Kinney elected a Missouri state senator and Tom Egan entrenched as St. Louiss most dangerous gangster, the gang boated nearly 400 members. Nearly everyone who lived in St. Louis was touched by them in some way or another.
Soon the Rats became overconfident and careless, beginning with a public shooting war against a gang led by Missouri beverage inspector Edward Jelly Roll Hogan. When the once-fearful public grew tired of the gangs, their leadership ended up in federal prison for twenty-five years, largely on the testimony of one of their own who turned states evidence in fear for his life.
Egans Rats provides a fascinating glimpse into a past that wasnt always idyllic. It was an era in which roving gangs of thugs terrorized voters with impunity, when alcohol was illegal, when a gangster could brag of his power in the newspaper, and when the tendrils of St. Louis crime reached all the way into the White House.