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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.1092
EAN: 9780806137322
ISBN: 0806137320
Label: University of Oklahoma Press
Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 284
Publication Date: January 01, 2003
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Studio: University of Oklahoma Press
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Wayne Padgett was a colorful, charming, and generous man. He was also one of Oklahoma's most elusive bootleggers and career criminals. From the 1960s into the 1980s, he operated out of Tulsa as a high-ranking member of the outfit known as the Dixie Mafia. In Oklahoma Tough, poet Ron Padgett tells the inside story of his notorious father and of how he earned his reputation as a Robin Hood "King of the Bootleggers." Oklahoma Tough is also a history of the distinctive mid-twentieth-century Oklahoma milieu that made Wayne Padgett's life story possible. Ron Padgett brings this vanished world to life with candid and sometimes comic descriptions of criminal life. Particularly insightful and entertaining are interviews in which former bootleggers, family members, friends, and enemies speak openly about their lives.
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Required lots of research. Glad this information will be available for future generations.
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Absurd Realist poet, translator, and memoirist Ron Padgett, long ensconced in New York's East Village boho Beat & Existentialist milieu, turns to his roots in this tale of Tulsa folklore circling around his father, Wayne Padgett; King of the oil town's bootleggers. The Tulsa time of this wiley tale is somewhere 'tween boom & bust. The earliest reaches extend back two generations to Padgett's granddad Grover, though only briefly touching upon Teddy Roosevelt's trust busters and the populist ferment ... Read More
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A very well written story that depicts an unique individual living in an intriguing time and place. Wayne Padgett is a compelling and contradictory man, some one I would like to get to know. Reading this book is like having a conversation with this powerful figure.
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This gripped me from beginning to end: a very finely drawn portrait of a man of unusual quality. Anyone who's ever been drawn to the "outlaw" mystique will appreciate the opportunity to see how it begins, lives, and ends in Wayne Padgett, the author's father. A terrific read.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 364.1092
EAN: 9780806137322
ISBN: 0806137320
Label: University of Oklahoma Press
Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 284
Publication Date: January 01, 2003
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Studio: University of Oklahoma Press