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Crooked, the Roaring Twenties tale of a corrupt attorney general, a crusading senator, and the birth of the American political scandal, Nathan Masters

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Crooked, the Roaring Twenties tale of a corrupt attorney general, a crusading senator, and the birth of the American political scandal, Nathan Masters

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eng

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Includes bibliographies and index

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contains biographical information

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index present

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non fiction

Main title

Crooked

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bibliography

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Nathan Masters

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the Roaring Twenties tale of a corrupt attorney general, a crusading senator, and the birth of the American political scandal

Summary

The riveting, forgotten narrative of the most corrupt attorney general in American history and the maverick senator who stopped at nothing to take him down. Newly elected to the Senate on a promise to root out corruption, Burton "Boxcar Burt" Wheeler sets his sights on ousting Attorney General Harry Daugherty, puppet-master behind President Harding's unlikely rise to power. Daugherty is famous for doing whatever it takes to keep his boss in power, and his cozy relations with bootleggers and other scofflaws have long spawned rumors of impropriety. But when his constant companion and trusted fixer, Jess Smith, is found dead of a gunshot wound in the apartment the two men share, Daugherty is suddenly thrust into the spotlight, exposing the rot consuming the Harding administration to a shocked public. Determined to uncover the truth in the ensuing investigation, Wheeler takes the prosecutorial reins and subpoenas a rogue's gallery of witnesses--convicted felons, shady detectives, disgraced officials--to expose the attorney general's treachery and solve the riddle of Jess Smith's suspicious death

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Crooked, the roaring '20s tale of a corrupt attorney general, a crusading senator, and the birth of the American political scandal

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