"Minneapolis Madams is the surprising and riveting account of the city's redlight district and the powerful madams who ran it. In their heyday Minneapolis brothels were not only open for business but constituted a substantial economic and political force in the city. Penny A. Pe…
Sex, money, and politics - no, it's not a thriller novel. This is the surprising and riveting account of the Minneapolis red-light district and the powerful madams who ran it. The author brings to life this nearly forgotten chapter of Minneapolis history, tracing the story of ho…
Music lovers all over the United States as well as in other countries have heard the music of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra under the direction of such noted conductors as Dimitri Mitropoulos and Eugene Ormandy. Now they can enjoy the story behind t.
Two corpses have been found. One on the riverbank and the other in an isolated farmhouse. They have been savagely beaten and the skin flayed from their bodies with their throats slit. On both victims the DNA of Charlie Pope, a convicted sex offender, has been found, and now all …
Two corpses have been found. One on the riverbank and the other in an isolated farmhouse. They have been savagely beaten and the skin flayed from their bodies with their throats slit. On both victims the DNA of Charlie Pope, a convicted sex offender, has been found, and now all …
"Downtown Minneapolis evolved from a collection of modest frame buildings on the banks of the Mississippi River to the high-rise center of a modern American metropolis. With a burgeoning milling industry powering the local economy, the early frame structures soon gave way to sub…
City blue laws drove the liquor trade and its customers--hard-drinking lumberjacks, pensioners, farmhands, and railroad workers--into the oldest quarter of Minneapolis. In the fifty-cent-a-night flophouses of the citys Gateway District, they slept in cubicles with ceilings of ch…
City blue laws drove the liquor trade and its customers into the oldest quarter of Minneapolis, the Gateway District. And in their midst John Bacich, aka Johnny Rex, who owned a bar, a liquor store, and a cage hotel, documented the gritty neighborhood's last days through photogr…
Tells the story of the strikes and union organizing drive the men and women of Teamsters Local 574 carried out in Minnesota in 1934, paving the way for the continent-wide rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) as a fighting social movement. Through hard-fought st…
"This is the story of the strikes and union organizing drive the men and women of Teamsters Local 574 carried out in Minnesota in 1934, paving the way for the continent-wide rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) as a fighting social movement. Through hard-fought…
"This is the story of the strikes and union organizing drive the men and women of Teamsters Local 574 carried out in Minnesota in 1934, paving the way for the continent-wide rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) as a fighting social movement. Through hard-fought…
A memoir of the author's life and love she shares with her long-term partner, Linnea.