If any of my Substack supporters or other supporters would like to come to a book talk I’ll be hosting, you can swing by the, Denicola’s Italian Restaurant and order some great Italian food and beverages.
At the talk, you can hear me talk about the book I wrote with JD Chandler, and ask any questions you may have in a Q and A, afterwards.
Date & Time: March 18, 2024, at Six PM.
Book description from Sex, Crime and Misdeeds in Mayor Baker’s Reign, 2016, The History Press.
“The 1917 election of Mayor George Luis Baker ushered a long era of unscrupulous greed into Portland government. While supposedly enforcing prohibition laws, Baker ordered police chief Leon Jenkins to control and profit from the bootlegging market. Baker filled city coffers and his friends' pockets with booze-soaked cash while sensational headlines like the 1929 affair between policeman Bill Breuning and informant Anna Schrader scandalized the city. Maligned in the press, Schrader executed a bitter campaign to recall the mayor. In 1933, a hired gunman murdered special investigator to the governor Frank Aiken a day before he would have filed a report on corruption in the city government. Authors JD Chandler and Theresa Griffin Kennedy unearth the salacious details of Baker's crooked administration in a revelatory account of prohibition in the Rose City.”
~Theresa Griffin Kennedy
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