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Capone: The Man and the Era

By Laurence Bergreen

Book information

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Year
1996
ISBN
0684824477, 9780684824475
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
14 MB (14795944 bytes)
Edition
Reprint
Pages
704\0
Time added
2014-03-27 11:31:31

Description

In this brilliant history of Prohibition and its most notorious gangster, acclaimed biographer Laurence Bergreen takes us to the gritty streets of Chicago where Al Capone forged his sinister empire. Bergreen shows the seedy and glamorous sides of the age, the rise of Prohibition, the illicit liquor trade, the battlefield that was Chicago. Delving beyond the Capone mythology. Bergreen finds a paradox: a coldblooded killer, thief, pimp, and racketeer who was also a devoted son and father; a self-styled Robin Hood who rose to the top of organized crime. Capone is a masterful portrait of an extraordinary time and of the one man who reigned supreme over it all, Al Capone.

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