Mappen, Marc. <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813561165 9781461934981 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Prohibition--History.--United States<br/>Organized crime--History.--United States<br/>Mafia--History.--United States<br/>Mafia--History.--United States<br/>Organized crime--History.--United States<br/>Prohibition--History.--United States
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV5089  / .P764 2013