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Dead Man’s Blues – Bibliography

 

For my research I don’t only read non-fiction, but also lots of fiction and poetry that are related to the setting, so that’s why there are these kinds of books in the list below. The list isn’t complete — there were lots of newspapers, magazines, archival material, primary sources and websites I read in addition to what’s below, and there are probably a few books I read which I’ve forgotten to put on the list.

Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism – Thomas Brothers

Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong – Terry Teachout

Chicago Jazz – William Howland Kenney

One Summer – Bill Bryson

Chicago: A Biography – Dominic A. Pacyga

The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream – Thomas Dyja

Capone: The Man and the Era – Laurence Bergreen

Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America’s Most Wanted Gangster – Jonathan Eig

Remembering Chicago: Crime in the Capone Era – John Russick

American Mafia: Chicago – William Griffith

American Mafia: A History of Its Rise to Power – Thomas Repetto

Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties – Michael Lesy

City of Scoundrels – Gary Krist

The Girls of Murder City – Douglas L. Perry

Lucky Luciano – Tim Newark

Len Small: Governors and Gangsters – Jim Ridings

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Jazz Poems – Kevin Young, Ed.

Chicago: City on the Make – Nelson Algren

The Man with the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren

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