
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 parado...
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Print Length: 724 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (May 21, 2013)
Publication Date: May 21, 2013
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Language: English
ASIN: B00AK78RJY
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I thought it was an excellent book that detailed both his professional life as well as his personal life. It starts with his family immigrating from Italy and how as a child nobody saw any indication of what was to come. I found it rather interesting...
ooded 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.