Prohibition gangsters the rise and fall of a bad generation / Marc Mappen.

By:

Mappen, Marc [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813561165
9781461934981

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

HV5089 .P764 2013

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Contents:

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.

Subject: 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.

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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.

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