Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend by Deirdre Bair
Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend by Deirdre Bair is a 395-page hardcover published in 2016 by Nan A. Talese of Doubleday and is the stated first edition. Apart from some light smudging to the cover, the book is in very good condition. Book Summary From his heyday to the present moment, AL Capone--Public Enemy Number One--has gripped popular imagination. Rising from humble Brooklyn roots, Capone went on to become the most infamous gangster in American History. At the height of prohibition, his multi-million-dollar Chicago bootlegging, prostitution, and gambling operation dominated the organized-crime scene. His competition with rival gangs was brutally violent, a long-running was that crested with the shocking St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929. Law enforcement and the media elite seemed powerless to stop the growth of his empire. And then the fall: a legal noose tightened by the FBI, a conviction on tax evasion, Alcatraz. After his release he returned to his family a muc