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
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780813561165

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