San Francisco's Queen of Vice
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San Francisco's Queen of Vice

The Strange Career of Abortionist Inez Brown Burns

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eBook - ePub

San Francisco's Queen of Vice

The Strange Career of Abortionist Inez Brown Burns

About this book

San Francisco's Queen of Vice uncovers the story of one of the most skilled, high-priced, and corrupt abortion entrepreneurs in America. Even as Prohibition was the driving force behind organized crime, abortions became the third-largest illegal enterprise as state and federal statutes combined with changing social mores to drive abortionists into hiding. Inez Brown Burns, a notorious socialite and abortionist in San Francisco, made a fortune providing her services to desperate women throughout California. Beginning in the 1920s, Burns oversaw some 150, 000 abortions until her trial and conviction brought her downfall. In San Francisco's Queen of Vice, Lisa Riggintells the story of the rise and fall of San Francisco's "abortion queen" and explores the rivalry between Burns andthe city's newly elected district attorney, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown (father of the present governor of California). Pledgingto clean up the graft-ridden city, Brown exposed the hiddenyet not-so-secret life of backroom deals, political payoffs, and corrupt city cops. Through the arrest, prosecution, and convictionof Burns, Brown used his success as a stepping-stone for his political rise to California's governor's mansion. Featuring an array of larger-than-life characters, Riggin shows how Cold War domestic ideology and the national quest to return to a more traditional America quickly developed into a battle against internal decay. Based on a combination of newspaper accounts, court records, and personal interviews, San Francisco's Queen of Vice reveals how the drama played out in the life and trial of one of the wealthiest women in California history.

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Information

Publisher
Bison Books
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781496202079
eBook ISBN
9781496203052
Topic
Histoire
Subtopic
Biographies historiques

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Preface
  9. Prologue
  10. Part 1: The Queen Bee
  11. 1. On Trial
  12. 2. From the Palace to a Tent . . . and Back Again
  13. 3. Love Pirate
  14. 4. Off the Hook
  15. 5. “Miss X”
  16. 6. The Fixer
  17. Part 2: Edmund G. “Pat” Brown
  18. 7. “Five-to-One” Odds
  19. 8. A “New Broom”
  20. 9. Cops and Robbers
  21. 10. Disappeared
  22. Part 3: The Supervisor and the Socialite
  23. 11. Houseguests
  24. 12. On the Lam
  25. 13. “The Prophet”
  26. 14. Death House
  27. Part 4: A Grand Fight
  28. 15. The Lone Holdout
  29. 16. “Accomplices and Co-Conspirators”
  30. 17. A Grand Fight
  31. 18. The End of the Road
  32. Part 5: Follow the Money
  33. 19. “Baghdad by the Bay”
  34. 20. Wise Guys
  35. 21. Murder “Mis-Trial”
  36. 22. The Corrupt and Contented IRS
  37. 23. The Kefauver Committee
  38. 24. “Hello Again”
  39. Part 6: The Bone Rattler
  40. 25. Official Closets
  41. 26. “That Big Wind”
  42. Epilogue
  43. Notes
  44. Bibliography
  45. Index
  46. About Lisa Riggin
  47. Illustrations