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Theresa Griffin Kennedy

    Theresa Griffin Kennedy est une écrivaine dont l'œuvre couvre la non-fiction créative et le journalisme gonzo. Son style présente une fiction littéraire hyperréaliste et des explorations poétiques, abordant souvent des profils historiques de personnages de Portland. Kennedy est une militante sociale qui utilise l'écriture comme outil de changement social et d'expression. Inspirée par l'accent mis par son père sur la diversité d'écriture, son œuvre explore des thèmes variés avec une voix distinctive et incisive.

    Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland: Sex, Vice & Misdeeds in Mayor Baker's Reign
    • The 1917 election of Mayor George Luis Baker ushered a long era of unscrupulous greed into Portland government. While supposedly enforcing prohibition laws, Baker ordered police chief Leon Jenkins to control and profit from the bootlegging market. Baker filled city coffers and his friends' pockets with booze-soaked cash while sensational headlines like the 1929 affair between policeman Bill Breuning and informant Anna Schrader scandalized the city. Maligned in the press, Schrader executed a bitter campaign to recall the mayor. In 1933, a hired gunman murdered special investigator to the governor Frank Aiken a day before he would have filed a report on corruption in the city government. Authors JD Chandler and Theresa Griffin Kennedy unearth the salacious details of Baker's crooked administration in a revelatory account of prohibition in the Rose City.

      Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland: Sex, Vice & Misdeeds in Mayor Baker's Reign