Prohibition gangsters : the rise and fall of a bad generation /

Based on FBI and other government files, trial transcripts, and 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. This book acknowledges how the gangsters and mobsters of the Prohibition gen...

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Main Author: Mappen, Marc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
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505 0 |a Prologue : the bluebird tattoo -- The big fellow in the Windy City -- Big battles in the Big Apple -- Smaller cities -- Gangsters in the surf -- The conference as comedy -- Capone's long trip home -- The twilight of the gangster? -- Pay your taxes -- Lucky v. Dewey -- Shot to death -- Lepke on the hot seat -- For them, crime did pay. 
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