Empire of Sin : [a story of sex, jazz, murder, and the battle for modern New Orleans]

Krist, Gary. (Author). Dean, Robertson. (Added Author).

Summary:

"Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite 'better half' against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1: The war begins, 1890-1891. Going respectable
The Sodom of the South
The first casualty
Retribution
Part 2: Drawing boundaries, mid-1890s-1907. A sporting man
New sounds
Desperado
Storyville rising
Jazzmen
The sin factory
Part 3: Battlegrounds of sin, 1907-1917. The Black Hand
A reawakening
An incident on Franklin Street
Hard times
The new prohibitionists
Part 4: Twilight of the demimonde, 1917-1920. Exodus
A killer in the night
"
Almost as if he had wings"

The Axman's jazz
The end of an empire
The soiled phoenix
Afterword: Who was the Axman?

Item details

ISBN: 1633793273
ISBN: 9781633793279
Physical Description: 2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
sound disc
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: Holland, Ohio : Dreamscape Media LLC, [2014]
Copyright: ©2014

Contents / Notes

General Note:	MP3 discs. Title from container.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part 1: The war begins, 1890-1891. Going respectable ; The Sodom of the South ; The first casualty ; Retribution Part 2: Drawing boundaries, mid-1890s-1907. A sporting man ; New sounds ; Desperado ; Storyville rising ; Jazzmen ; The sin factory Part 3: Battlegrounds of sin, 1907-1917. The Black Hand ; A reawakening ; An incident on Franklin Street ; Hard times ; The new prohibitionists Part 4: Twilight of the demimonde, 1917-1920. Exodus ; A killer in the night ; "Almost as if he had wings" ; The Axman's jazz ; The end of an empire ; The soiled phoenix Afterword: Who was the Axman?
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Robertson Dean.