fbpx
Gleebooks Bookshop
Free Call

Sydney Noir: The Golden Years

$35.00

Sydney Noir: The Golden Years

Available on back-order

SKU: 9781742235448 Category: Product ID: 218489

Description

Temporarily out of stock

Title: Sydney Noir: The Golden Years
Author: DUFFY MICHAEL/HORDEN NICK
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/05/2017
Imprint: NEW SOUTH WALES UNI PRESS
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active

The first ever book devoted entirely to the golden years of the Sydney underworld.

In the late 1960s Sydney was one of the most prosperous places on earth and one of the most corrupt. A large proportion of the population was engaged in illegal gambling and other activities that made colourful characters such as Lennie McPherson, Abe Saffron and George Freeman wealthy and, to many, folk heroes. Thousands of American soldiers on their seven-day leave from Vietnam turned Kings Cross, with its strip shows and night clubs, into one big party.

The whole corrupt carnival was run by the police in an arrangement known as the joke . They could just about get away with that term because heroin had not yet turned the underworld into the killing machine it would soon become. Two of the main jokers were also lovers: vice queen Shirley Brifman and violent detective Fred Krahe.

In Sydney Noir Michael Duffy and Nick Hordern revisit this dark yet fascinating chapter of Sydney s history, telling stories that would be unbelievable were they not true. Finally, they make the bold argument that premier of the time, Sir Robert Askin, may not have been as guilty of corruption as many have claimed.

ISBN: 9781742235448
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm

Additional information

Dimensions 234 × 153 mm