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Andrew Jackson "Jack" Bondurant (8 April 1910-6 November 2000) was an AmericanProhibition-era gangster and one of the three Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia.
Biography[]
Andrew Jackson Bondurant was born in Franklin County, Virginia on 8 April 1910, the son of Granville Thomas Bondurant and Malissa Elizabeth Barbour and the younger brother of Howard and Forrest. He and his brothers became moonshiners during Prohibition, with Jack serving as their driver and mostly being kept out of the business because of his perceived lack of grit. In 1931, while helping his brothers distribute moonshine at a local dance, he fell in love with preacher's daughter Bertha Minnix at first sight. He courted her in secret, and - aiming to become more involved his brother's business - he and his friend Cricket Pate snatched 200 gallons of their brother's liquor and brought it to Rocky Mount to be sold to the Chicago gangster Gummy Walsh. Walsh attempted to double-cross Jack and Cricket and had the taken to an open grave to be shot, but Walsh's boss Floyd Banner intervened after Jack revealed that he was a Bondurant. Floyd made amends by offering Jack $5 for each barrel of liquor, and he also gave him the address of the two men who had wounded his brother Forrest.
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The Wettest County in the World
Novel
The Wettest County in the World is a 2008 historical novel by Matt Bondurant, an American writer who features his grandfather Jack and grand-uncles Forrest and Howard as the main characters in the novel.
The book tells of the trio during the Depression and Prohibition in rural Virginia, who made a living bootlegging moonshine. The novel is told from both the perspectives of the three Bondurant brothers, mainly focusing on the youngest, Jack, and of the writer Sherwood Anderson, who described Franklin County in that period as the "wettest county in the world" while working there as a journalist during Prohibition.[1] The film Lawless (2012), directed by John Hillcoat, is based on the book with a screenplay by Nick Cave.
Background
[edit]The novel, inspired by the author's paternal grandfather Jack and two grand-uncles, Forrest and Howard,[1] focuses on the historical events of the Great Franklin County Moonshine Conspiracy, a series of events and a trial related to the illegal activities of the moonshiners in Franklin County.[2] Sherwood Anderson was there working as a journalist at the time. To research the historical period, Bondurant listened to family stories and used archival records, news