Description
"Karlen offers a colorful and impressively researched account of the Minneapolis underworld and his fascinating relative that feels right out of Damon Runyon's Guys and Dolls." --Star Tribune
"Deliciously snappy." --American Jewish World
"Karlen brings back the days when Peggy Lee walked into Augie's straight off the bus from North Dakota, when mid-century celebrities like Frank Sinatra visited Hennepin Avenue, and when the most powerful crime lords in the land checked their guns at the door when they visited Augie's." --MinnPost
"Augie's Secrets is filled with stunning, stylish prose that captures the flavor of the Jewish underworld of downtown Minneapolis down to its last rubout and pastrami sandwich." --Paul Maccabee, author of John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crooks' Tour of Crime and Corruption in St. Paul, 1920-1936
Author: Neal Karlen
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 02/01/2014
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780873519328
ISBN10: 0873519329
BISAC Categories:
- True Crime | Organized Crime
- History | United States | State & Local | Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MO
"Deliciously snappy." --American Jewish World
"Karlen brings back the days when Peggy Lee walked into Augie's straight off the bus from North Dakota, when mid-century celebrities like Frank Sinatra visited Hennepin Avenue, and when the most powerful crime lords in the land checked their guns at the door when they visited Augie's." --MinnPost
"Augie's Secrets is filled with stunning, stylish prose that captures the flavor of the Jewish underworld of downtown Minneapolis down to its last rubout and pastrami sandwich." --Paul Maccabee, author of John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crooks' Tour of Crime and Corruption in St. Paul, 1920-1936
Author: Neal Karlen
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 02/01/2014
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780873519328
ISBN10: 0873519329
BISAC Categories:
- True Crime | Organized Crime
- History | United States | State & Local | Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MO