Description: Portland on the Take, Oregon, Paperback 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."
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MPN: 9781626197497
Book Title: Portland on the Take: : Mid-Century Crime Bosses, Civic Corruption and Forgotten Murders
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.3in
Item Width: 6in
Author: J. D. Chandler, J. B. Fisher
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Sociology / General, General, Organized Crime, United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (Or, WA), United States / General
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2014
Genre: True Crime, History, Social Science
Item Weight: 12.2 Oz
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
