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Rose Keefeauthor profile |
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| url | http://www.goodreads.com/profile/rosekeefe | |||||||||
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| gender | female | |||||||||
| place of birth | Canada | |||||||||
| website | http://www.rosekeefe.com | |||||||||
| genre | Nonfiction, History, Biographies & Memoirs | |||||||||
| influences | William J. Helmer, Rick Mattix, Richard Lindberg, Pete Burns, to name a few | |||||||||
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about this author
Rose Keefe is the author of two vintage True Crime books: Guns and Roses- the Untold Story of Dean O'Banion, Chicago's Big Shot Before Al Capone and The Man Who Got Away: the Bugs Moran Story. Both books were compiled via interviews with surviving relatives of Dean O'Banion and George 'Bugs' Moran as well as such primary resources as arrest records, FBI files, and confidential investigator reports. As part of her research for her third book, The Starker: Big Jack Zelig and the Becker-Rosenthal Case of 1912, she interviewed the descendants of Jack Zelig, Charles Becker, Dopey Benny Fein, and Abe Shoenfeld. She has written on the subject of vintage crime and cold case files for national and regional periodicals, and is...more |
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books by Rose Keefecombine editionsavg rating: 4.50 | 8 ratings | 3 distinct works
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Rose's writing
The Blood Remembers (History)
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updated 12/23/2007 12:21PM
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"The blood remembers what the mind forgets" is an old Irish saying which basically means that the echo of an untimely death can still be heard and felt long after the murderer is punished or the crime dismissed as unsolved. Even after those with direct memories of the tragedy in question are gone, their descendants sense a skeleton in the closet. Something continues to be wrong.
While researching my three books, all of which were about (in)famous gangsters, I repeatedly came across references to killers, victims, and law enforcement personnel who merited only a line or two before they were shoved off the front pages in favor of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre or some bloody event that was equally sensational. I experienced a curiousity and frustration, like I'd been reading a good novel and found the final pages torn out. In these essays, which I collectively title "The Blood Remembers", I reclaim those pages. I find out what happened to the killers of Rose Rossi, discover who Clarence White was before he became a 1920 Chicago murder statistic, and flesh out peripheral gangland figures. I'll try to post a story at the rate of one per week, and would appreciate your thoughts on both the individual chapters and the project as a whole.
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The Missing Reel: The Untold Story of the Lost Inventor of Moving Pictures (Paperback) by Christopher Rawlence bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum (Hardcover) by Edward T. O'Donnell |
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recommended for: Chriss Lyon
read in August, 2008 
Rose said:
"Prior to September 11, 2001, the burning of the General Slocum was New York City's worst disaster in terms of casualty rate. An estimated 1300 Lower East Side residents, most of them members of St. Mark's Lutheran parish, boarded the steamer on the m...more
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"It is obvious that the many years that Rose Keefe spent researching and writing the story of Dean O'Banion was time well spent! She captures the essence of a man that visually could have walked off the page and her knack of storytelling is top-notch...more " | |
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The First Vice Lord: Big Jim Colosimo and the Ladies of the Levee (Hardcover) by Art Bilek |
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recommended for: Rick Mattix
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"I've been looking forward to this book since the day I learned that Art Bilek intended to do a biography of Big Jim Colosimo. Colosimo was Chicago's first Italian crime lord, a distinction that the less informed have bestowed upon Al Capone. Those wi...more
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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea (Paperback) by Gary Kinder |
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The Practical Writer: From Inspiration to Publication (Paperback) by Mary Gannon |
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Paula Uruburu's
review of American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century:
"It is reviewed in the April 2008 Vogue, May O!, May 11th LA Times. It's in the June 1st New York Times Summer Reads Book Review. You can hear my podcast with the Washington Post BookTalk on their website. " | |
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Rose's favorite quotes
"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews. "
— William Faulkner
— William Faulkner
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
— Solomon Short
— Solomon Short
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