Charles F Thompson

Official Register of the United States

• Categories: United States

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1897
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• Publisher: Unknown

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1861-1877, Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military and Naval [etc.]

• Author(s): United States. Department of the Interior

• Categories: United States

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1903
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Statutes at Large, the United States from ...

• Author(s): United States

• Categories: Law

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1907
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Who's who in the Army

• Author(s): American Council on Public Affairs

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1948
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Spirits of Just Men

• Author(s): Charles D. Thompson Jr.

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2011-04-20
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• Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Spirits of Just Men tells the story of moonshine in 1930s America, as seen through the remarkable location of Franklin County, Virginia, a place that many still refer to as the "moonshine capital of the world." Charles D. Thompson Jr. chronicles the Great Moonshine Conspiracy Trial of 1935, which made national news and exposed the far-reaching and pervasive tendrils of Appalachia's local moonshine economy. Thompson, whose ancestors were involved in the area's moonshine trade and trial as well as local law enforcement, uses the event as a stepping-off point to explore Blue Ridge Mountain culture, economy, and political engagement in the 1930s. Drawing from extensive oral histories and local a...