Prohibition Gangsters : The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mappen, Marc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Prohibition.
Organized crime.
Mafia.
TRUE CRIME > Organized Crime.
Mafia > États-Unis > Histoire.
Crime organise > États-Unis > Histoire.
Mafia > United States > History.
Organized crime > United States > History.
Prohibition > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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