The Camille DeRose story

by Camille DeRose

$15 · Offered by Bolerium Books

Chicago: De Rose Publishing Co., 1953. Hardcover. 348p., very good hardcover in chipped, worn dj. DeRose had turned an underworld career into respectability through apartment ownership. Integration attempts provoked unrest that De Rose frames in the anticommunist hysteria of the period, blaming colored incendiaries and the growling form of communism implicit in rent control for her problems. Cat.No: 5837

• Binding: Hardcover

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