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Al Capone: The Biography of a Self-Made Man

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He rose from the tenement streets of Brooklyn to command an empire built on blood, bribes, and bootleg liquor. Al Capone was not merely a gangster. He was a phenomenon, a self-invented American titan who bent an entire city to his will during the most lawless decade the United States had ever seen. Fred D. Pasley's Al Capone: The Biography of a Self-Made Man stands as the original, authoritative ... Read more

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He rose from the tenement streets of Brooklyn to command an empire built on blood, bribes, and bootleg liquor. Al Capone was not merely a gangster. He was a phenomenon, a self-invented American titan who bent an entire city to his will during the most lawless decade the United States had ever seen. Fred D. Pasley's Al Capone: The Biography of a Self-Made Man stands as the original, authoritative
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AL CAPONE - The Biography of a Self-Made Man

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The biography of Alphonse Gabriel Capone (born January 17, 1899 – died January 25, 1947), known by the nickname "Scarface". The most famous American gangster, as well as businessman ... Read more

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The biography of Alphonse Gabriel Capone (born January 17, 1899 – died January 25, 1947), known by the nickname "Scarface". The most famous American gangster, as well as businessman
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Not Guilty - The Story Of Samuel S. Leibowitz

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Low Life

Lures and Snares of Old New York

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The classic social history of corruption and vice in nineteenth-century NYC: "A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves" (John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review).Lucy Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but ... Read more

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The classic social history of corruption and vice in nineteenth-century NYC: "A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves" (John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review).Lucy Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but
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Where the Money Was

The Memoirs of a Bank Robber

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The Broadway Books Library of LarcenyLuc Sante, General EditorFor more than fifty years, Willie Sutton devoted his boundless energy and undoubted genius exclusively to two activities at which he became better than any man in history: breaking in and breaking out. The targets in the first instance were banks and in the second, prisons. Unarguably America’s most famous bank robber, Willie never ... Read more

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The Broadway Books Library of LarcenyLuc Sante, General EditorFor more than fifty years, Willie Sutton devoted his boundless energy and undoubted genius exclusively to two activities at which he became better than any man in history: breaking in and breaking out. The targets in the first instance were banks and in the second, prisons. Unarguably America’s most famous bank robber, Willie never
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Deadline Artists—Scandals, Tragedies & Triumphs

More of America's Greatest Newspaper Columns

by Jack London, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Thompson, Richard Wright, Damon Runyon, Shirley Povich, Murray Kempton, Mike Ryoko, Ruben Salazar, Mary McGrory, Mike Barnicle, Molly Ivins, Pete Hamill, Carl Hiaasen, Nicholas Kristof, Steve Lopez, Peggy Noonan, Mitch Albom, Leonard Pitts ...

An anthology of newspaper columns from the 19th century to the present—"engaging eyewitness pieces [that] elicit admiration, wonder and gasps of surprise" ( Kirkus Reviews).Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columns drew together some of the finest examples of America's greatest unsung literary form: the newspaper column. In this new Deadline Artists collection, some of America's ... Read more

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An anthology of newspaper columns from the 19th century to the present—"engaging eyewitness pieces [that] elicit admiration, wonder and gasps of surprise" ( Kirkus Reviews).Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columns drew together some of the finest examples of America's greatest unsung literary form: the newspaper column. In this new Deadline Artists collection, some of America's
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Little Shoes

The Sensational Depression-Era Murders That Became My Family's Secret

by Pamela Everett ...

In the summer of 1937, with the Depression deep and World War II looming, a California triple murder stunned an already grim nation. After a frantic week-long manhunt for the killer, a suspect emerged, and his sensational trial captivated audiences from coast to coast. Justice was swift, and the condemned man was buried away with the horrifying story.But decades later, Pamela Everett, a lawyer and ... Read more

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In the summer of 1937, with the Depression deep and World War II looming, a California triple murder stunned an already grim nation. After a frantic week-long manhunt for the killer, a suspect emerged, and his sensational trial captivated audiences from coast to coast. Justice was swift, and the condemned man was buried away with the horrifying story.But decades later, Pamela Everett, a lawyer and
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Paddy Whacked

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The Gangs of New York

Informal History of the Underworld

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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld is a book by Herbert Asbury, American journalist and writer best known for his books detailing crime during the 19th and early-20th centuries. The Gangs of New York details the rise and fall of 19th century gangs in New York City, prior to the domination of the Italian-American Mafia during Prohibition in the 1920s. Focusing on the ... Read more

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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld is a book by Herbert Asbury, American journalist and writer best known for his books detailing crime during the 19th and early-20th centuries. The Gangs of New York details the rise and fall of 19th century gangs in New York City, prior to the domination of the Italian-American Mafia during Prohibition in the 1920s. Focusing on the
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Guns and Roses

The Untold Story of Dean O'Banion, Chicago's Big Shot Before Al Capone

by Rose Keefe ...

Based on information compiled from police and court documents, contemporary news accounts, and interviews with O'Banion's friends and associates, Guns and Roses traces O'Banion's rise from Illinois farm boy to the most powerful gang boss ... ... Read more

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Based on information compiled from police and court documents, contemporary news accounts, and interviews with O'Banion's friends and associates, Guns and Roses traces O'Banion's rise from Illinois farm boy to the most powerful gang boss ...
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Bestial

The Savage Trail of a True American Monster

by Harold Schechter ...

FROM SOCIAL OUTCAST TO NECROPHILE AND MURDERER -- HIS APPALLING CRIMES STUNNED AN ERA.San Francisco, the 1920s. In an age when nightmares were relegated to the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and distant tales of the Whitechapel murders, a real-life monster terrorized America. His acts of butchery have proved him one of history's fiercest madmen.As an infant, Earle Leonard Nelson possessed the power to ... Read more

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FROM SOCIAL OUTCAST TO NECROPHILE AND MURDERER -- HIS APPALLING CRIMES STUNNED AN ERA.San Francisco, the 1920s. In an age when nightmares were relegated to the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and distant tales of the Whitechapel murders, a real-life monster terrorized America. His acts of butchery have proved him one of history's fiercest madmen.As an infant, Earle Leonard Nelson possessed the power to
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Scarface and the Untouchable

Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago

by Max Allan Collins, A. Brad Schwartz ...

The new definitive history of gangster-era Chicago–a landmark work that is as riveting as a thriller. Now featuring a new preface, plus 115 photographs and a map of gangland Chicago.A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year"Gripping. ... Reads like a novel." — Chicago"Revolutionizes our understanding of Al Capone and Eliot Ness." *—*Matthew PearlIn 1929, thirty-year-... ... Read more

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The new definitive history of gangster-era Chicago–a landmark work that is as riveting as a thriller. Now featuring a new preface, plus 115 photographs and a map of gangland Chicago.A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year"Gripping. ... Reads like a novel." — Chicago"Revolutionizes our understanding of Al Capone and Eliot Ness." *—*Matthew PearlIn 1929, thirty-year-...
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