The Tragedy and the Triumph of Phenix City Alabama, Paperback/Margaret Anne Banes - Mercer University Press

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In the first chronological and gripping narrative of the events that crippled Phenix City, Alabama, Margaret Anne Barnes tells the true story of how economic hard times in the Depression led a mayor to barter immunity from prosecution to gamblers and gangsters in exchange for money to save the town from going into receivership.
When their control was absolute, no crime was beyond their commission, no citizen safe, and no constitutional right could be relied upon..
By mid-century, the criminal element managed to buy or infiltrate every office of government in the city.
In the first chronological and gripping narrative of the events that crippled Phenix City, Alabama, Margaret Anne Barnes tells the true story of how economic hard times in the Depression led a mayor to barter immunity from prosecution to gamblers and gangsters in exchange for money to save the town from going into receivership