Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
By Dean Jobb
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It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people to invest as much as $30 million—upward of $400 million today—in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama. This rip-roaring tale of greed, financial corruption, dirty politics, over-the-top and under-the-radar deceit, illicit sex, and a brilliant and wildl…
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AwardsBiographySocial SciencesHistoryNonfictionLegal Figures, Law Enforcers, & CriminalsTrue CrimeUnited States HistoryUnited States History - Midwestern RegionCriminals - General & Miscellaneous - BiographyWhite Collar & Nonviolent CrimeIllinois - State & Local History2015 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction FinalistsWriters' Trust of Canada AwardsCanadian Literary AwardsPrevious Finalists - Writers' Trust of Canada Awards



