Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit

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A New York Times BestsellerDetroit, mid-1930s: In a city abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, gun-loving baseball fan Dayton Dean became ensnared in the nefarious and deadly Black Legion. The secretive, Klan-like group was executing a wicked plan of terror, murdering enemies, flogging associates, and contemplating armed rebellion. The Legion boasted tens of thousands of members across the Midwest, among them politicians and prominent citizens—even, possibly, a beloved athlete.Terror in the City of Champions opens with the arrival of Mickey Cochrane, a fiery baseball star who roused the Great Depression&’s hardest-hit city by leading the Tigers to the 1934 pennant. A year later he guided the team to its first championship. Within seven months the Lions and Red Wings follow in football and hockey—all while Joe Louis chased boxing&’s heavyweight crown.Amidst such glory, the Legion&’s dreadful toll grew unchecked: staged &“suicides,&” bodies dumped along roadsides, high-profile assassination plots. Talkative Dayton Dean&’s involvement would deepen as heroic Mickey&’s Cochrane&’s reputation would rise. But the ballplayer had his own demons, including a close friendship with Harry Bennett, Henry Ford&’s brutal union buster. Award-winning author Tom Stanton weaves a stunning tale of history, crime, and sports. Richly portraying 1930s America, Terror in the City of Champions features a pageant of colorful figures: iconic athletes, sanctimonious criminals, scheming industrial titans, a bigoted radio priest, a love-smitten celebrity couple, J. Edgar Hoover, and two future presidents, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. It is a rollicking true story set at the confluence of hard luck, hope, victory, and violence..
Copyright:
2016

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Book Size:
320 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781493018185
Related ISBNs:
9781493030583
Publisher:
Globe Pequot Publishing
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Copyrighted By:
Tom Stanton
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Sports
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Bookshare Staff
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