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San Francisco's Queen of Vice : The Strange Career of Abortionist Inez Brown Burns /
"Lisa Riggin tells the story of the rise and fall of 1940s San Francisco abortionist Inez Brown Burns, who made a fortune by providing her services to desperate women throughout California before the city's newly elected district attorney, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, exposed the hidde...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Lisa Riggin tells the story of the rise and fall of 1940s San Francisco abortionist Inez Brown Burns, who made a fortune by providing her services to desperate women throughout California before the city's newly elected district attorney, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, exposed the hidden, yet not so secret life of backroom deals, political payoffs and corrupt city cops"-- "San Francisco's Queen of Vice uncovers the story of one of the most skilled, high-priced, and corrupt abortion entrepreneurs in America. Even as Prohibition was the driving force behind organized crime, abortions became the third-largest illegal enterprise as state and federal statutes combined with changing social mores to drive abortionists into hiding. Inez Brown Burns, a notorious socialite and abortionist in San Francisco, made a fortune providing her services to desperate women throughout California. Beginning in the 1920s, Burns oversaw some 150,000 abortions until her trial and conviction brought her downfall. In San Francisco's Queen of Vice, Lisa Riggin tells the story of the rise and fall of San Francisco's "abortion queen" and explores the rivalry between Burns and the city's newly elected district attorney, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown (father of the present governor of California). Pledging to clean up the graft-ridden city, Brown exposed the hidden yet not-so-secret life of backroom deals, political payoffs, and corrupt city cops. Through the arrest, prosecution, and conviction of Burns, Brown used his success as a stepping-stone for his political rise to California's governor's mansion. Featuring an array of larger-than-life characters, Riggin shows how Cold War domestic ideology and the national quest to return to a more traditional America quickly developed into a battle against internal decay. Based on a combination of newspaper accounts, court records, and personal interviews, San Francisco's Queen of Vice reveals how the drama played out in the life and trial of one of the wealthiest women in California history"-- |
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| Notas: | Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations Preface Prologue: The Beginning of the End Part 1: The Queen Bee Chapter 1. On Trial Chapter 2. From the Palace to a Tent and Back Again Chapter 3. Love Pirate Chapter 4. Off the Hook Chapter 5. "Miss X" Chapter 6. The Fixer Part 2: Edmund "Pat" Brown Chapter 7. "Five-to-One" Odds Chapter 8. A "New Broom" Chapter 9. Cops and Robbers Chapter 10. Disappeared Part 3: The Supervisor and the Socialite Chapter 11. Houseguests Chapter 12. On the Lam Chapter 13. "The Prophet" Chapter 14. Death House Part 4: A Grand Fight Chapter 15. The Lone Holdout Chapter 16. "Accomplices and Co-Conspirators" Chapter 17. A Grand Fight Chapter 18. The End of the Road Part 5: Follow the Money Chapter 19. "Baghdad by the Bay" Chapter 20. Wise Guys Chapter 21. Murder "Mis-Trial" Chapter 22. The Corrupt and Contented IRS Chapter 23. The Kefauver Committee Chapter 24. "Hello Again" Part 6: The Bone Rattler Chapter 25. Official Closets Chapter 26. "That Big Wind" Epilogue: Death and Taxes Notes Bibliography Index. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (256 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781496203076 |