Young Tennessee Brown

In the early twentieth century, along the Mississippi River, the youngest child of a railroad engineer began a life journey that was marked by events shaping the years leading the United States into a new brave world. Born into a lower middle-class family, Fred Whalen became one of the most prolific hustlers of all time. He took what those days dealt him and played the best hand he could. At the age of twelve, he became a protege of a part-time pool hustler known at Tennessee Brown. Brown was a