Lords of the Levee: The Story of Bathhouse John and Hinky Dink (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810123205)

Winner of 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award-Certificate of Excellence

In the early twentieth century, John Coughlin and Mike Kenna ruled Chicago's First Ward, the lucrative lakefront territory and nerve center of the city. It was one of the most infamous havens for vice in the entire country, home to gambling palaces with marble floors and mahogany bars, to a mini-city of thugs and prostitutes and down-and-outers, to dives and saloons of every description and a few beyond description. In short, the First was a gold mine. In a city where money talked, it made boisterous Bathhouse John and the laconic Hinky Dink Kenna the most powerful men in town. This classic of Chicago-style journalism traces the careers of these two operators as they rose to the top of the city's political world.

Author: Lloyd Wendt, Herman Kogan
ISBN-10: 0810123207
ISBN-13: 9780810123205
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2005
Pages: 408
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.70h x 6.08w x 0.85d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/15/2005 pg. 95