Marc Mappen

Prohibition Gangsters

The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation

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Produktbeschreibung

Master story teller Marc Mappen applies a generational perspective to the gangsters of the Prohibition era - men born in the quarter century span from 1880 to 1905 - who came to power with the Eighteenth Amendment. Mappen strips way the many myths and legends from television and movies to describe the lives these gangsters lived and the battles they fought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Altersempfehlung: ab 16 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780813594279
• ISBN-10: 0813594278
• Artikelnr.: 47971205

Autorenporträt

Mappen, Marc

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: The Bluebird Tattoo
Part I. The Rise
1. The Big Fellow in the Windy City
2. Big Battles in the Big Apple
3. Smaller Cities
Part II. Atlantic City Interlude
4. Gangsters in the Surf
5. The Conference as Comedy
6. Capone's Long Trip Home
Part III. The Fall
7. The Twilight of the Gangster?
8. Pay Your Taxes
9. Lucky v. Dewey
10. Shot to Death
11. Lepke on the Hot Seat
12. For Them, Crime Did Pay
Cast of Characters
A Note on Sources
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index