Prohibition on the North Jersey Shore
9781609490591
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Many of the North Jersey Shore towns we know today began as quiet retreats for pious New Yorkers wishing to escape the vice and crime of the city.
Towns such as Long Branch, Ocean Grove, Red Bank, and Atlantic Highlands all got their start like this, but with the passage of Prohibition in 1919, the region became a haven for criminals who began smuggling liquor through the serene seaside. Speakeasies sprang up on virtually every corner, as gangsters like Vito Genovese, Charles "Lucky'? Luciano, and Meyer Lansky ruled this brutal underworld, while civilians were caught in the crossfire of gun battles between rival syndicates. Discover the true drama that captured the Jersey Shore during Prohibition.
New Jersey's Lindbergh Kidnapping and Trial
9780738597744
Regular price $24.99 Sale price $17.49 Save 30%The kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. and the subsequent arrest, trial, and execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann have intrigued true crime buffs for decades.
New Jersey's Lindbergh Kidnapping and Trial tells the story of ""the case that never dies"" through vintage photographs. Rare photographs, many not seen since the 1930s, will allow the reader to experience the massive police investigation led by New Jersey State Police superintendent H. Norman Schwarzkopf and the circus-like trial and execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
The Burlington County Prison:
9781609491055
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Eastern State Penitentiary
9781596294035
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The only comprehensive history of one of America's most infamous prisons, Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, PA.
Looming on the horizon like a storm cloud made of stone, the Eastern State Penitentiary spent more than a century as the fortress that both the law-abiding and criminal feared. In this superbly balanced and thoroughly researched volume, Paul Kahan presents the history of this revolutionary penitentiary, from its inception as a model of the revolutionary Pennsylvania System of incarceration in 1829 to the demands for its closure in the wake of ever-increasing violence in 1971. Through tales of spectacular escapes, official corruption, reformation and retribution, Kahan chronicles the tensions that plagued Eastern State since the arrival of its first prisoners.
