| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 266 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The big fellow in the Windy City -- Big battles in the big apple -- Smaller cities -- Gangsters in the surf -- Guys & Dolls and a gangster moll -- Capone's long trip home & Lucky's island adventure -- The twilight of the gangster? -- Pay your taxes -- Lucky v. Dewey -- Shot to death -- Lepke on the hot seat -- For them, crime did pay. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Based on FBI and other government files, trial transcripts, and the latest 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, acknowledging how 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. It applies a generational perspecti. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Prohibition -- United States -- History.
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Organized crime -- United States -- History.
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Mafia -- United States -- History.
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TRUE CRIME -- Organized Crime.
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Mafia. (OCoLC)fst01005389
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Organized crime. (OCoLC)fst01047884
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Prohibition. (OCoLC)fst01078761
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mappen, Marc. Prohibition gangsters. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2013 9780813561158 (DLC) 2012033375 (OCoLC)809365686 |
| ISBN |
9780813561165 (electronic bk.) |
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0813561167 (electronic bk.) |
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9781461934981 (electronic bk.) |
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1461934982 (electronic bk.) |
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