Capone
The Man and the Era
1st Edition
Published on 21. May 2013
704 pages
978-1-4391-2845-9 (ISBN)
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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 paradox: a coldblooded 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.
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 paradox: a coldblooded 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.
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Laurence Bergreen is an award-winning biographer and historian. His books have been translated into twenty-five languages worldwide. Among his books are biographies of Christopher Columbus, Giacomo Casanova, Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, Louis Armstrong, Al Capone, and Irving Berlin. He lives in New York City.
Content
Contents
Genealogy of the Capone Family
Prologue
Part One: Pursuit
1. Campanilismo
2. Where the East Meets the West
3. Memento Mori
4. Round Lake Refuge
5. The Return of Al Capone
6. The Jazz Age
Part Two: Descent
7. Slaughter and Sanctuary
8. Public Enemies
9. Secret Agents
10. The United States of America vs. Alphonse Capone
11. Circles of Hell
12. After Capone
Acknowledgments
Notes on Sources
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
