Wicked Newport: Kentucky's Sin City

by Thomas Barker, Jenna Meglen, Dr Gary W Potter

Book Overview

Controlled by the heavy hand of the mob and fueled by government corruption, Newport evolved through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries into a notoriously robust center of criminal activity.

With top political and law enforcement officials often on the take, the seedy status quo became so excessive that a May 1961 issue of Time magazine declared, "Newport has developed such a gaudy brand of gambling and prostitution that it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159629549X
• ISBN13: 9781596295490
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.8"