Deirdre Bair - Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Format: Book

From a National Book Award-winning biographer, the first complete life of legendary gangster Al Capone to be produced with the cooperation of his family, who provided the author with exclusive access to personal testimony and archival documents. From his heyday to the present moment,...

Dylan Struzan - Hard Case Crime
Format: Book

In 1919, the National Prohibition Act was passed, making it illegal across America to produce, distribute, or sell liquor. With this act, the U.S. Congress also created organized crime as we know it. Italian, Jewish, and Irish mobs sprang up to supply the suddenly illegal commodity to the millions...

Scott M. Deitche - Barricade Books
Format: Book

Bootleggers, gambling ringleaders, arsonists, narcotics dealers and gang murderers - a variety of characters flourished in the era known as Prohibition and Tampa, Florida was where they battled for supremacy of the criminal underworld. With meticulous detail, Scott M. Deitche documents...

Scott Deitche - Reservoir Square Books
Format: Book

Catering to lovers of the well-written word and the well-mixed drink, Cocktail Noir is a lively look at the intertwining of alcohol and the underworld - represented by authors of crime both true and fictional and their glamorously disreputable characters, as well as by real life...

Camper English - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

Beer-based wound care, deworming with wine, whiskey for snakebites, and medicinal mixers to defeat malaria, scurvy, and plague: how todays tipples were the tonics of old. Alcohol and medicine have an inextricably intertwined history, with innovations in each altering the path of the other....

Jonathan Eig - Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Book

Acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Jonathan Eig blows the lid off the Al Capone story. Based on never-before-seen government documents and newly discovered letters written by Al Capone himself, Get Capone presents America's greatest gangster as you've never...

Karen Abbott - Crown
Format: Book

In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant named George Remus quits practicing law and starts trafficking whiskey. Within two years he's a multi-millionaire. The press calls him "King of the Bootleggers," writing...

Barbie Latza Nadeau - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

The chilling story of one woman's rise to prominence in the Italian Mafia, and the as-yet untold stories of the women who followed in her footsteps. For as long as it has gripped our imaginations, the Mafia has been tied to an ingrained image of masculinity. We read about "made...

Matt Birkbeck - William Morrow
Format: Book

From Matt Birkbeck, a revelatory father/surrogate son story that takes readers deep inside the inner workings of the mob through the eyes of William "Big Billy" D'Elia, the right-hand man to legendary mafia kingpin Russell Bufalino, who ran organized crime in the US for more...

Max Allan Collins - William Morrow
Format: Book

At last, the definitive account of the battle for Chicago. Legendary novelist Max Allan Collins and acclaimed rising historian A. Brad Schwartz combine talents in this groundbreaking dual biography of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the upright...

Lisa McGirr - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book

A groundbreaking history of Prohibition and a new creation story for the powerful American state. Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles...

Joe Urschel - Minotaur Books
Format: Book

It's 1933 and Prohibition has given rise to the American gangster - now infamous names like Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. Bank robberies at gunpoint are commonplace and kidnapping for ransom is the scourge of a lawless nation. With local cops unauthorized to cross state lines...