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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...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
[2013]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.