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Paperback Wicked Newport: Kentucky's Sin City Book

ISBN: 159629549X

ISBN13: 9781596295490

Wicked Newport: Kentucky's Sin City

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Controlled by the heavy hand of the mob and fueled by government corruption, Newport evolved through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries into a notoriously robust center of criminal activity.


With top political and law enforcement officials often on the take, the seedy status quo became so excessive that a May 1961 issue of Time magazine declared, "Newport has developed such a gaudy brand of gambling and prostitution that it...

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