Killing the Poormaster: The Depression-Era Murder That Put America's Welfare System on Trial by Holly Metz

Killing the Poormaster: The Depression-Era Murder That Put America's Welfare System on Trial

Holly Metz

320 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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2013 NJCH Award Winner On February 25, 1938, Hoboken's reviled poormaster, Harry Barck--wielding power over who received public aid--died. Barck was murdered, the prosecution would assert, by an unemployed mason named Joe Scutellaro. In denying S...

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