{"product_id":"25th-street-confidential-drama-decadence-and-dissipation-along-ogdens-rowdiest-road-paperback","title":"25th Street Confidential: Drama, Decadence, and Dissipation Along Ogden's Rowdiest Road - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVal Holley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGenerations of Ogdenites have grown up absorbing 25th Street's legends of corruption, menace, and depravity. The rest of Utah has tended to judge Ogden--known in its first century as a \"gambling hell\" and tenderloin, and in recent years as a degraded skid row--by the street's gaudy reputation. Present-day Ogden embraces the afterglow of 25th Street's decadence and successfully promotes it to tourists. In the same preservationist spirit as Denver's Larimer Square, today's 25th Street is home to art galleries, fine dining, live theater, street festivals, mixed-use condominiums, and the Utah State Railroad Museum.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e25th Street Confidential\u003c\/i\u003e traces Ogden's transformation from quiet hamlet to chaotic transcontinental railroad junction as waves of non-Mormon fortune seekers swelled the city's population. The street's outsized role in Ogden annals illuminates larger themes in Utah and U.S. history. Most significantly, 25th Street was a crucible of Mormon-Gentile conflict, especially after the non-Mormon Liberal Party deprived its rival, the People's Party, of long-standing control of Ogden's municipal government in 1889. In the early twentieth-century the street was targeted in statewide Progressive Era reform efforts, and during Prohibition it would come to epitomize the futility of liquor abatement programs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This first full-length treatment of Ogden's rowdiest road spotlights larger-than-life figures whose careers were entwined with the street: Mayor Harman Ward Peery, who unabashedly filled the city treasury with fees and fines from vicious establishments; Belle London, the most successful madam in Utah history; and Rosetta Ducinnie Davie, the heiress to London's legacy who became a celebrity on the street, in the courts, and in the press. Material from previously unexploited archives and more than one hundred historic photos enrich this narrative of a turbulent but unforgettable street.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Winner of the Utah Book Award in Nonfiction.\u003cbr\u003e Chosen by \u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e as a finalist in the regional category for their IndieFab Book of the Year Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVal Holley \u003c\/b\u003eis a native of Weber County, Utah, attended Weber State College, and received a BA in journalism from BYU, a JD from the University of Utah, and an MLS from the Catholic University of America. For three decades he has been a law librarian and an independent historian in Washington, DC. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eJames Dean: The Biography \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMike Connolly and the Manly Art of Hollywood Gossip. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 202\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 9.03 x 9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770826424608,"sku":"9781607812692","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6c07768838db50d40f405cc0ac7a9cb1.webp?v=1780378882","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/25th-street-confidential-drama-decadence-and-dissipation-along-ogdens-rowdiest-road-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}