River City Empire: Tom Dennison's Omaha

by Orville D. Menard

More than any other political boss of the early twentieth century, Thomas Dennison, "the Rogue who ruled Omaha," was a master of the devious. Unlike his contemporaries outside the Midwest, he took no political office and was never convicted of a crime during his thirty-year reign. He was a man who managed saloons but never cared for alcohol; who may have incited the Omaha Race Riot of 1919 but claimed he never harmed a soul; who stood aside while...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803248334
• ISBN13: 9780803248335
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.4"