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Motor City mafia: a century of organized crime in Detroit

By Scott M , Burnstein

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
ISBN
9781439633106, 143963310X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
33 MB (35024912 bytes)
Series
Images of America; Images of America: a history of American life in images and texts
Pages
illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Organized crime--Michigan--Detroit--History;Organi

Description

Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit chronicles the storied and hallowed gangland history of the notorious Detroit underworld. Scott M. Burnstein takes the reader inside the belly of the beast, tracking the bloodshed, exploits, and leadership of the southeast Michigan crime syndicate as never before seen in print. Through a stunning array of rare archival photographs and images, Motor City Mafia captures Detroit's most infamous past, from its inception in the early part of the 20th century, through the years when the iconic Purple Gang ruled the city's streets during Prohibition, through the 1930s and the formation of the local Italian mafia, and the Detroit crime family's glory days in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, all the way to the downfall of the area's mob reign in the 1980s and 1990s.

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