Bob Batchelor
The Bourbon King Paperback Book
On the 100th anniversary of The Volstead Act taking effect comes the epic, definitive story of the man who cracked the Prohibition system and helped inspire The Great Gatsby. "[Batchelor] makes this flashy bootlegger sound like a folk hero...Behold the king." New York Times Book Review "Its all here murder, mayhemand highpriced hooch." David Pietrusza, author of 1920 In October 1919, Congress gave teeth to Prohibition. But the law didnt stop George Remus from amassing a fortune equivalent to billions today. As one journalist put it, "Remus was to bootlegging what Rockefeller was to oil." The Bourbon King breathes life into Americas largest illegal booze operationgreater than that of Al Caponeand a man considered the best criminal defense lawyer of his era. Remus cracked the system by purchasing an empire of distilleries on Kentuckys "Bourbon Trail" and using his other profession, as a pharmacist, to profit off legal loopholes. He stole, bribed, and partied, a roaring lifestyle epitomizing the Jazz Age over which he ruled. That is, before he came crashing down in one of American historys most sensational murder cases in a cheating wife, the Gman who seduced her and jailed Remus, and the plunder of a Bourbon Empire. Remus murdered his wife in cold blood and then shocked a nation, winning his freedom based on a condition he inventedtemporary maniacal insanity. Love, murder, political intrigue, mountains of cash, and rivers of bourbon...the tale of George Remus is a grand...
Binding: Paperback;420 pages; Publisher: Simon & Schuster Distribution Clients; Classification: N/A; Weight: 626.21 g; Dimensions: N/A
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On the 100th anniversary of The Volstead Act taking effect comes the epic, definitive story of the man who cracked the Prohibition system and helped inspire The Great Gatsby. "[Batchelor] makes this flashy bootlegger sound like a folk hero...Behold the king." New York Times Book Review "Its all here murder, mayhemand highpriced hooch." David Pietrusza, author of 1920 In October 1919, Congress gave teeth to Prohibition. But the law didnt stop George Remus from amassing a fortune equivalent to billions today. As one journalist put it, "Remus was to bootlegging what Rockefeller was to oil." The Bourbon King breathes life into Americas largest illegal booze operationgreater than that of Al Caponeand a man considered the best criminal defense lawyer of his era. Remus cracked the system by purchasing an empire of distilleries on Kentuckys "Bourbon Trail" and using his other profession, as a pharmacist, to profit off legal loopholes. He stole, bribed, and partied, a roaring lifestyle epitomizing the Jazz Age over which he ruled. That is, before he came crashing down in one of American historys most sensational murder cases in a cheating wife, the Gman who seduced her and jailed Remus, and the plunder of a Bourbon Empire. Remus murdered his wife in cold blood and then shocked a nation, winning his freedom based on a condition he inventedtemporary maniacal insanity. Love, murder, political intrigue, mountains of cash, and rivers of bourbon...the tale of George Remus is a grand...
Binding: Paperback;420 pages; Publisher: Simon & Schuster Distribution Clients; Classification: N/A; Weight: 626.21 g; Dimensions: N/A
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