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Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Drawing on thousands of pages of recently discovered government documents, wiretap transcripts, and Al Capone's handwritten personal letters, "New York Times" bestselling author Jonathan Eig tells the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the nation's most notorious criminal in rich new detail
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Description
"From a National Book Award-winning biographer, the first complete life of legendary gangster Al Capone to be produced with the cooperation of his family, who provided the author with exclusive access to personal testimony and archival documents. Born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, to poor, Italian immigrant parents, Al Capone went on to become the most infamous gangster in American history. In 1925, during the height of Prohibition, Capone's multi-million-dollar...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"A THRILLING MAGNUM OPUS ON AMERICA'S GREAT CRIME EPIC. A Mystery Writers of America "Grand Master"--author of the gangster classic Road to Perdition, long-time Dick Tracy writer, and multiple Shamus Award winner--teams with an acclaimed rising young historian, in this riveting, myth-shattering dual portrait of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the legendary Prohibition agent whose extraordinary investigative work crippled...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"An engrossingly honest insider's tale of the part of Al Capone's life that mattered most to him, life with his wife, son, and four granddaughters. Diane Patricia Capone, the granddaughter who was with him almost every day throughout his final years, has supplemented her childhood memories with many previously unknown revelations told to her as an adult by her father and grandmother. Al's beloved wife, Mae, and with her readings in the extensive private...
Author
Series
Road to Perdition graphic novels volume 1
Formats
Description
Michael Sullivan is a professional hit man bound to the criminal underworld of 1930s who learns a viiolent lesson one rainy night when his wife and youngest son are killed. Sullivan and his last surviving child face off aginist the most notorious crime syndicate in history--on a journey of revenge and self-discovery.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"A shocking Prohibition-era murder in a dusty Saskatchewan border town inflames the public's suspicions about links between the politicians and Al Capone and the Chicago Mob. When rookie cop Jack Ross's investigation gets too close to the truth, he's pulled off the case. Then he goes rogue." -Publisher Marketing
15) Al Capone
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Discusses the early life of Al Capone, lawlessness, prohibition, gangsters, family life, prison, and legacy of Al Capone.
Pub. Date
[2006], ℗♭1998
Description
"At the onset of Prohibition, small-time hood Al Capone moves to Chicago to become the bodyguard of a local racketeer. The criminal activity that followed would soon be legendary. Capone soon became the head of Chi-Town's biggest 'business, ' extorting whatever he wanted from whomever he pleased. The infamous gangster was sitting on top of the world with nowhere to go but down"--Container.
18) The Untouchables
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
The story of the glorious, fierce, larger-than-life depiction of mob warlord Al Capone who ruled Prohibition-era Chicago ... and Eliot Ness, the law enforcer, who vowed to bring him down. A classic confrontation between good and evil, and how with the help of a cop named Malone, Ness learns how to beat the mob by shooting fast and shooting first.
Eliot Ness and his band of prohibition-era law enforcement agents try to destroy Al Capone's criminal...
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