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Portland Confidential: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Rose City Paperback – August 21, 2018

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It 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. Portland Confidential 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. One 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. Things got so bad that Bobby Kennedy, then a young lawyer for the Senate Rackets 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. It couldn’t have been more embarrassing. So 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. Not any more, though―it’s all right here in Portland Confidential.
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"A film noir incarnation of the Rose City... The city writes about is a lost world — nastier, denser, wilder and more elegant than today."— Willamette Week

"Portland Confidential lays it out in all its gritty glory, rattling skeletons in the city's many musty closets." — Seattle Times

About the Author

Author Phil Stanford has worked as a columnist for both the Oregonian and the Portland Tribune and has written for a number of national publications including the New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and the Columbia Journalism Review on defense and intelligence matters. Along the way, he has also worked as a magazine editor and as as a licensed private investigator in Portland and Miami. His other titles include: "The Peyton-Allan Files" and from Feral House "White House Call Girl", and "Rose City Vice."

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Feral House; Reprint edition (August 21, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1627310630
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1627310635
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
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Phil Stanford is the author of Portland Confidential, The Peyton-Allan Files, White House Call Girl, and Rose City Vice.

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DadJokes
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2024
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Interesting facts about PDX. Worth reading if you’re interested in some history about Portland past.
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sitdownbike
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, Informative Book
Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2020
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Loved this book. It's not overly detailed but really gives a taste of Portland in the 50's and 60's. I surprised to find out how mobbed up downtown was and how oblivious the suburbs were or pretended to be. The book identifies who was doing what to whom and how hard. And who knew what a peril to western civilization pinball machines are? Check out the author's other books, Portland Vice, White House Call Girl, and The Peyton-Allen Affair.
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INHIGHGEAR
5.0 out of 5 stars interesting
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2019
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we were there and didn't know all this was going on
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Michael R. Douglas
3.0 out of 5 stars Gives a picture of vice in Portland in the 50's and 60's
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2019
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It is not written in a manner that appeals to me. Many names and story lines. Difficult to follow the stories at times. Seems to be not much more than a collection of newspaper reports on organized crime in Portland in the 1950's and 60's.
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Eunice Trent
5.0 out of 5 stars Sleaze and crime out west
Reviewed in Canada on September 12, 2020
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Lots of interesting stories packed into a well researched book. Not a lot of pages, but what there is-including several photos- makes this book a page turner, in typical Stanford style. Have read a few of his other books, and highly recommend this one.
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