Prohibition gangsters the rise and fall of a bad generation /
Mappen, Marc.
Prohibition gangsters the rise and fall of a bad generation / Marc Mappen. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (viii, 266 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
The big fellow in the Windy City -- Big battles in the big apple -- Smaller cities -- Gangsters in the surf -- Guys and Dolls and a gangster moll -- Capone's long trip home and Lucky's island adventure -- The twilight of the gangster? -- Pay your taxes -- Lucky volume Dewey -- Shot to death -- Lepke on the hot seat -- For them, crime did pay.
Based on FBI and other government files, trial transcripts, and the latest scholarship, this book provides a lively narrative of shootouts, car chases, courtroom clashes, wire tapping and rub-outs in the 1920s, the 1930s, and beyond, acknowledging how the Prohibition generation-Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Dutch Schultz, among others-forever transformed organized crime from loosely associated gangs of the pre-Prohibition era into sophisticated, complex syndicates. It applies a generational perspecti.
9780813561165 9781461934981
Prohibition--History.--United States
Organized crime--History.--United States
Mafia--History.--United States
Mafia--History.--United States
Organized crime--History.--United States
Prohibition--History.--United States
Electronic Books.
HV5089 / .P764 2013
Prohibition gangsters the rise and fall of a bad generation / Marc Mappen. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (viii, 266 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
The big fellow in the Windy City -- Big battles in the big apple -- Smaller cities -- Gangsters in the surf -- Guys and Dolls and a gangster moll -- Capone's long trip home and Lucky's island adventure -- The twilight of the gangster? -- Pay your taxes -- Lucky volume Dewey -- Shot to death -- Lepke on the hot seat -- For them, crime did pay.
Based on FBI and other government files, trial transcripts, and the latest scholarship, this book provides a lively narrative of shootouts, car chases, courtroom clashes, wire tapping and rub-outs in the 1920s, the 1930s, and beyond, acknowledging how the Prohibition generation-Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Dutch Schultz, among others-forever transformed organized crime from loosely associated gangs of the pre-Prohibition era into sophisticated, complex syndicates. It applies a generational perspecti.
9780813561165 9781461934981
Prohibition--History.--United States
Organized crime--History.--United States
Mafia--History.--United States
Mafia--History.--United States
Organized crime--History.--United States
Prohibition--History.--United States
Electronic Books.
HV5089 / .P764 2013