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Moonshine, Murder and Mayhem: Inspired by a True Story
Contributor(s): Johnson, Robert M. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1491295511     ISBN-13: 9781491295519
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE: $10.44  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: August 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical - General
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.51" W x 8.5" L (0.64 lbs) 246 pages
 
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This historical novel is the result of many years of study into family history and American history of the period that is often called the Great Depression, but should also be called the Great Prohibition. Both of these national calamities collaborated to shape the lives depicted in the present work of historical fiction. It is inspired by the struggle of a real life family in northern Minnesota. It describes what they went through to survive in a country racked by poverty and moralistic values. "Moonshine, Murder and Mayhem's" climactic moment is described as follows: "As Katie stood up to face her jealous lover, she knew she had never seen him in such a state of rage and she began to wonder whether she could control the situation. "I told you many times, that if I caught you with another man, I would kill you " Big Al said spitting out the words one at a time and emphasizing that final expression, kill you." The thirteen years that Prohibition held the country hostage to its morality has been called, a period of Mayhem. History has judged the country harshly over this curtailing of human rights. But while it was illegal to sell alcohol openly, moonshiners thrived and prospered. The story of the Shea family is a saga interwoven with the struggles over "White Lightning" and the ominous and pervasive poverty of the Depression. It takes place in northern Minnesota and finds its terrible peak on a cold March night in the year 1930. Katie Shea Gendreau, full of life at 33 years old, looses the struggle with Poverty and Prohibition. This is her story.
 
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