Betting, Booze, and Brothels
C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2012 LCV Cities Tour” in Beaumont, Texas, on January 9-13 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Time-Warner Cable local cable affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2.
Laura O’Toole and Wanda Landrey talked about their book, Betting, Booze, and Brothels: Vice, Corruption, and Justice in Jefferson County, Te… read more
Laura O’Toole and Wanda Landrey talked about their book, Betting, Booze, and Brothels: Vice, Corruption, and Justice in Jefferson County, Texas, about the boomtown era in Southeastern Texas following the discovery of oil in 1901 and the end of the era in 1960 when the James Commission findings led to changes in society and government in Jefferson County, Texas.
C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2012 LCV Cities Tour” in Beaumont, Texas, on January 9-13 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Time-Warner Cable local cable affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2. close
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Wanda A. Landrey Author
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Betting, Booze, and Brothels