Killing the Poormaster: A Saga of Poverty, Corruption, and Murder in the Great Depression by Holly Metz

Killing the Poormaster: A Saga of Poverty, Corruption, and Murder in the Great Depression

Holly Metz

320 pages • first pub 2012 (view editions)

nonfiction history true crime challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Reflecting on a sensational murder trial from the late 1930s, this chronicle focuses upon the death of Harry Barck, a poormaster who was granted the authority to decide who would and would not receive public aid in Hoboken, New Jersey. Unemployed ...

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