The First Vice Lord: Big Jim Colosemo and the Ladies of the Levee Format:Hardcover Thomas Jefferson was a brilliant

Thomas Jefferson was a brilliant and complex man who was practically born into America's ruling elite

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The First Vice Lord: Big Jim Colosemo and the Ladies of the Levee Format:Hardcover Thomas Jefferson was a brilliantThe First Vice Lord is the story of the life and death of Big Jim Colosimo and Chicago's infamous segregated red light district the Levee. For the first time, the true story is told of the colorful characters who peopled the Levee from the time of the Columbian Exposition to the Roaring Twenties, clearly the most colorful period in Chicago's history. The product of five years of research through Chicago daily newspapers, magazines, and periodicals,