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Open City
Open City is an historical work detailing and analyzing the birth and growth of an organized crime "family" in Kansas City during the first 50 years of the 20th Century. It began with a Mafia-like clan labeled the Black Hand, its roots planted in the secret crime societies of Southern Italy and Sicily - a band of extortionists victimizing the city's "Little Italy" community in the early 1900s. From modest beginnings, the development of the criminal outfit is traced through prohibition, its alliance with the Pendergast Machine, the roaring 20s, Home Rule, the wide open 30s, the birth of La Cosa Nostra, and hard times in the 50s. It is the story of Kansas City, politics, powerful and colorful mob bosses, gangland murders, racket activities, and courageous police officers and reformers. Book jacket.
Ouseley's Legacy
Ouseley's Legacy is about John Keble and the Oxford Movement of 1840, and the Catholic Revival. It is also about Pugin and the Gothic Revival. The lives of the Rev. Sir Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, his father, Sir Gore, who was Ambassador to Persia, and Henry Woodyer, the architect of St. Michael's Church and College, are included. There are also details of the closure of The College, and of the last service, Service of Thanksgiving, on Sunday, July 14th, 1985.
