Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But
perhaps the era's greatest political fiasco-one that resulted in a
nationwide scandal, a public reckoning at the department of
justice, the rise of J. Edgar Hoover, and an Oscar-winning film-has
long been lost to the annals of history. In Crooked, Nathan Masters
restores this story of murderers, con artists, secret lovers,
spies, bootleggers, and corrupt politicians to its full,
page-turning glory. Newly elected to the Senate on a promise to
root out corruption, Burton "Boxcar Burt" Wheeler sets his sights
on exposing Harry Daugherty, President Warren G. Harding's attorney
general and the pup-pet master behind the nascent FBI. The famously
corrupt Daugherty is known for doing whatever it takes to keep his
boss in power, whether it be taking kickbacks from bootleggers or
bribes for drilling rights. But when his constant companion and
trusted fixer, Jess Smith, is found dead of a gunshot wound in the
apartment the two men shared, Daugherty is suddenly thrust into the
spotlight, exposing the rot consuming the Harding administration to
a shocked public. Determined to uncover the truth in the ensuing
investigation, Wheeler takes the prosecutorial reins and subpoenas
a rogue's gallery of witnesses-ex-cons, bootleggers, disgraced
government officials-all seek-ing to expose the attorney general's
treachery and solve the riddle of Jess Smith's suspicious death.
But with the muckraking senator hot on his trail, Daugherty turns
to his greatest weapon, the budding Bureau of Investigation, whose
eager second-in-command, J. Edgar Hoover, sees opportunity amidst
the chaos. Packed with political intrigue, salacious scandal, and
no shortage of lessons for our modern era of political discord,
Nathan Masters's thrilling historical narrative shows how this
intricate web of inconceivable crookedness set the stage for the
next century of American political scandals.
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