Historic Photos of Chicago Crime: The Capone Era opens with a compelling look at Chicago's cityscape to include a broad range of cultural phenomena, from suffrage to jazz, essential to the contextualization of crime in the 1920s and 1930s.
Title:
A Travel Guide To... - Al Capone's Chicago
Author:
Diane Yancey
Publisher:
Lucent Books
Description:
We recommend this book to Al Capone fans that are planning a trip to the windy city. You're sure to catch all of Capone's haunts using this book as your guide.
Title:
Mr. Capone: The Real - and complete - story of Al
Author:
Robert J. Schoenberg
Publisher:
Harper Paperbacks
Description:
"I guess it's all over," Al Capone told his lawyer after being sentenced to prison for tax evasion in October 1931. But, as Schoenberg ( Geneen ) diligently shows, the public has never gotten over its obsession with the legendary mobster. Schoenberg traces Capone's life from his Brooklyn boyhood (he was a notable delinquent) through his famous Chicago years to his release from prison in 1939 and his death from neurosyphilis. This fast-paced, fact-filled, behind-the-scenes account of a skilled and brutal gangster lays bare the realities behind the myths about a man still known throughout the world 45 years after his death. Schoenberg's lively biography resonates with details of Capone's dealings with other gangsters, the press, government agents and agencies. Photos not seen by PW.
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Title:
St. Valentine's Day Massacre: The Untold Story of
Author:
William J. Helmer
Publisher:
Cumberland House Publishing
Description:
During Prohibition, Chicago's Beer Wars turned the city into a battleground, secured its reputation as the gangster capital of the world, and laid the foundation for organized crime nationwide. Bootlegger bloodshed was greater there than anywhere else.
The machine-gun murders of seven men on the morning of February 14, 1929, by killers dressed as cops became the gangland "crime of the century." Or so the story went. Since then it has been featured in countless histories, biographies, movies, and television specials. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, however, is the first book-length treatment of the subject, and it challenges the commonly held assumption that Al Capone ordered the slayings to gain supremacy in the Chicago underworld. Instead, authors William J. Helmer and Arthur J. Bilek assert the deed was a case of bad timing and poor judgment by a secret crew from St. Louis known to Capone's mostly Italian mob as the "American boys."
The target of the murder squad was indeed Bugs Moran, but the American boys, who were dressed as policemen and arrived in two bogus police cars, arrived at the garage where the massacre took place before Moran arrived. They didn't know who Moran was or what he looked like, and since none of Moran's crew would admit to being him, the counterfeit cops stupidly killed everyone, just to be sure they got him. Much of the evidence that pointed to the American boys was deftly and intentionally ignored by law-enforcement officials in Chicago. The story surfaced again briefly in 1935 with a manuscript written by the widow of one of the gunmen and with public knowledge of a lookout's long-suppressed confession. In the end, the machine-gun bullets heard 'round the world marked the beginning of the end for Al Capone.
Title:
Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone
Author:
John Kobler
Publisher:
Da Capo Press
Description:
As complete a dossier on the life and times of Capone as is conceivable...fascinating. " New York Times Book Review . Here is the ultimate biography of the most brutal, flamboyant gangster of all time-Al Capone. From his violent childhood to his notorious St. Valentine's Day massacre to his eventual control of Chicago, here is the inside scoop on "Snorky" aka "Scarface" aka "Public Enemy Number One. " Capone is a classic in true crime literature.
