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Al Capone: Chicago's King Of Crime (2010)

by Nate Hendley(Favorite Author)

3.95 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0986542725 (ISBN13: 9780986542725)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Five Rivers Chapmanry

review 1: This was a first reads giveway. I appreciate Five Rivers Chapmanry and Nate Hendley the opportunity to read this. Although I am not clear on the shortness nor the compelling reason why Henley wrote this story, I found the pace and prose well done. I am more interested in this time period of prohibition as well as the depression (although Capone's heyday was before the stock market collapse of 1929) and as a result will delve more deeply into this subject matter. I will be reading Public Enemies and The Forgotten Man at some point in the near future.
review 2: This book was a very quick read and I liked the fact that there was a lot of information in there that I had no idea about Al Capone. The author certainly did his homework in the history of Al Capone a... morend growing up in Brooklyn, his rise to a mobster in Chicago, and his troubles with Elliot Ness. It blew me away that Capone suffered from Syphilis and this is essentially what killed him. I won this book thru Library Thing. less

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