Description: Bishop and the Butterfly : Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age, Hardcover by Wolraich, Michael, ISBN 1454948027, ISBN-13 9781454948025, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The riveting story of how the murder of femme fatale Vivian Gordon in 1931 brought about the downfall of the mayor of New York City and led to the end of Tammany Hall’s dominance. Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck. At her stylish Manhattan apartment, detectives discovered nots full of names—businessmen, socialites, gangsters. And something else: a letter from an anti-corruption commission established by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Led by the imperious Judge Samuel Seabury, the commission had uncovered a police conspiracy to frame women as prostitutes. Had Vivian Gordon been executed to bury her secrets? As FDR pressed the police to solve her murder, Judge Seabury pursued the trail of corruption to the top of Gotham’s powerful political machine—the infamous Tammany Hall.
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Book Title: Bishop and the Butterfly : Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
Item Length: 9in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Michael Wolraich
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: United States / 20th Century, General
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
Publication Year: 2024
Genre: True Crime, History
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
