Killing the Poormaster: A Saga of Poverty, Corruption, and Murder in the Great Depression

By Holly Metz

Book Overview

2013 NJCH Award Winner On February 25, 1938, Hoboken's reviled poormaster, Harry Barck--wielding power over who received public aid--died. Barck was murdered, the prosecution would assert, by an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1613744188
• ISBN13: 9781613744185
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.1"