John McDonald and the Whiskey Ring : From Thug to Grant's Inner Circle

Cooper, Edward S.

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press（2016/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 208 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781683930129
• DDC分類 977.803

Full Description

The most flamboyant, consistently dishonest racketeer was Supervisor of Internal Revenue John McDonald, whose organization defrauded the federal government of millions of dollars. When President Grant was asked why he appointed McDonald supervisor of internal revenue he responded, "I was aware that he was not an educated man, but he was a man that had seen a great deal of the world and of people, and I would not call him ignorant exactly, he was illiterate." McDonald organized and ran the Whiskey Ring but he always credited Grant with the initiation of the Ring declaring that the president "actually stood god-father at its christening." The demise of the Ring rivals anything that the real or fictional Elliot Ness and his "Untouchables" ever accomplished during the prohibition era in America.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1The Story
2Cape Girardeau-Sainte Genevieve-Paducah
3Forts Heiman, Henry, and Donelson
4Court Martial and Profiteering
5Supervisor of Internal Revenue
6The Fraud
7The Utes
8The Operation
9Grant's Horses
10The Unraveling
11 Indictments
12Trials
13St. Louis Jail
14Grant Saves Babcock
15Missouri State Penitentiary
16Pardons
17Domestic Troubles
18Books Wars

Biographical Notes
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author