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Author Hill, David (Author), author.

Title The vapors : a southern family, the New York mob, and the rise and fall of Hot Springs, America's forgotten capital of vice / David Hill.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  364.106 HILL    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  976.741 HIL    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  976.741 HIL    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  976.741 HILL    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  976.741 HILL    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  976.741 HILL    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Nonfiction  976.741 HIL    Missing
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  976.741 HIL    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  976.7 HIL    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  976.741 HILL    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xii, 382 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-361) and index.
Summary Describes the history of Hot Springs, Arkansas. The author plots the trajectory of everything from organized crime to America's fraught racial past, examining how a town synonymous with white gangsters supported a burgeoning black middle class. He reveals how the louche underbelly of the South was also home to veterans hospitals and baseball's spring training grounds, giving rise to everyone from Babe Ruth to President Bill Clinton.
Subject Madden, Owney, 1891-1980.
Hot Springs (Ark.) -- History.
Mafia -- Arkansas -- Hot Springs -- History.
Gambling -- Arkansas -- Hot Springs -- History.
Crime -- Arkansas -- Hot Springs -- History.
ISBN 1250086116 (hardcover)
9781250086112 (hardcover)
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