{"product_id":"9781627310635","title":"Portland Confidential: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Rose City","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt may come as a shock, especially to anyone who has come to regard Portland as a haven for enlightened progressive thought, light rail, and lattes for all, not that long ago — in fact as recently as the 1950s — Portland was known throughout the country as a Mecca of vice and sin. \u003ci\u003ePortland Confidential\u003c\/i\u003e rips the covers from Portland's biggest dirty little secret. It was a side-open town, with purveyors of all the traditional vices operating openly under the noses of the local police. All they had to do was pay off the cops and, of course, their bosses in City Hall.\u003cbr\u003eOne day in the spring of 1956, it all blew up in everyone’s faces with newspaper exposés, indictments of public officials—including the chief of police, the district attorney, and the Mayor—and shameful national headlines.\u003cbr\u003eThings got so bad that Bobby Kennedy, then a young lawyer for the Senate\u003cbr\u003eRackets Committee, hauled two dozen or so of the town’s more colorful characters back to Washington, DC and grilled them before a national television audience.\u003cbr\u003eIt couldn’t have been more embarrassing.\u003cbr\u003eSo naturally, when it was all over, everyone came back to town and pretended it never happened. For decades, it’s been Portland’s dirty little secret.\u003cbr\u003eNot any more, though—it’s all right here in \u003ci\u003ePortland Confidential\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Feral House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031959781616,"sku":"9781627310635","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781627310635_p0.jpg?v=1763868458","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781627310635","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}