My Grandfather's Prison: A Story of Death and Deceit in 1940s Kansas City
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James Patrick Lyons abandoned his family for a life on Kansas City's skid row. A town drunk, he was arrested eighty times for public intoxication. On the night of his last arrest, he was taken to the city jail and held in solitary confinement. The next morning he was dead. Officials said it was natural causes--yet they could not explain his broken neck. When Richard Serrano learned of the grandfather he had never known, the longtime journalist embarked...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0826218644
ISBN13:9780826218643
Release Date:September 2009
Publisher:University of Missouri Press
Length:168 Pages
Weight:0.97 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"
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