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I, the People: How Marvin Zindler Busted the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Gary Taylor

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I, the People: How Marvin Zindler Busted the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

"The Chicken Ranch was the one, great festering, frustrating sore on the face of law enforcement in Texas."

The year was 1973. The State of Texas had just elected a new reform-minded governor and attorney general. And Houston's ABC-TV affiliate station at Channel 13 had just launched a new consumer-oriented investigative feature by hiring flamboyant former lawman Marvin Zindler to seize the spotlight. The roads from those disparate events crossed quickly in dramatic fashion to national acclaim in the Texas Hill Country village of La Grange, which had harbored the country's longest continually operating bordello--a little place known as the Chicken Ranch and beloved to generations of Texas school boys.

When Zindler's sensational TV expose forced the Chicken Ranch to close, it triggered a national controversy that raged for years, highlighted by the creation of a successful Broadway musical called The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. The movie version starred Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton in the fictionalized account that boiled the story down to a basic theme still used in its marketing pitch: "Texas madam Miss Mona and her sheriff boyfriend try to save her chicken ranch from a TV muckraker."

But lost amid the romanticized singing and the dancing and the nostalgic pining of "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" lies an authentic true crime history yarn just as entertaining and as much a part of the Lone Star State's many fabled legends. In "I, the People," veteran Houston journalist and author Gary Taylor recreates the real story behind the closing of the Chicken Ranch and explains the forces that unleashed TV icon Marvin Zindler upon the national scene.

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Utgitt 26. mai 2012
ISBN13 9781468186628
Utgivere CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platf
Antall sider 106
Mål 6 × 152 × 229 mm   ·   154 g
Språk Engelsk  

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