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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
[2013]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 266 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-258) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813561165 0813561167 9781461934981 1461934982 |