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.On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution went into effect in the United States, “outlawing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors.” A group of young criminals from immigrant backgrounds in cities around the nation stepped forward to disobey the law of the land in order to provide alcohol to thirsty Americans. Today the names of these young men—Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Dutch Schultz, Legs Diamond, Nucky Johnson—are more familiar than ever, thanks in part to such cable programs as Boardwalk Empire. Here, Mappen strips way the many myths and legends from television and movies to describe the lives these gangsters lived and the battles they fought. Placing their criminal activities within the context of the issues facing the nation, from the Great Depression, government crackdowns, and politics to sexual morality, immigration, and ethnicity, he also recounts what befell this villainous group as the decades unwound. M... [Read More]

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Meticulously documented, lavishly detailed, exhaustively researched, and written with an eye for the truths that have remained largely hidden, The Complete Public Enemy Almanac"" provides a reliable source of information about the violent and lawless era of the twenties and thirties.""

Never before has a gallery of cops, robbers, and daredevil crooks ever been assembled into one collection. Using FBI and police film, archival footage, and rare photographs, this story traces the life of Al "Scarface" Capone who, during the prohibition era of the 1920s, built an empire that netted over $100 million in one year. The hard times of the 1920s and 1930s brought forth the romanticized public enemies John Dillinger, Bonnie Parker, and Clyde Barrow. It is all here, the dirty deeds of Legs Diamond, Dutch Schultz, "Pretty Boy" Floyd, "Machine Gun" Kelly, and other depression gangsters and lawmen, including J. Edgar Hoover and Melvin Purvis. Bonus Feature: Life in the 1920s and 1930s - From the Hearst Archive Library, ninety-six short newsreel segments, once shown in local motion picture theatres, capture what life was like outside of the "underworld" in the 20s and 30s.

A rich biography of the legendary figure at the center of the century’s darkest secrets: an untold story of golden age Hollywood, modern Las Vegas, JFK-era scandal and international intrigue from Lee Server, the New York Times bestselling author of Ava Gardner: Love is Nothing…A singular figure in the annals of the American underworld, Johnny Rosselli’s career flourished for an extraordinary fifty years, from the bloody years of bootlegging in the Roaring Twenties--the last protégé of Al Capone―to the modern era of organized crime as a dominant corporate power. The Mob’s “Man in Hollywood,” Johnny Rosselli introduced big-time crime to the movie industry, corrupting unions and robbing moguls in the biggest extortion plot in history. A man of great allure and glamour, Rosselli befriended many of the biggest names in the movie capital―including studio boss Harry Cohn, helping him to fund Columbia Pictures--and seduced some of its greatest female stars, including Jean Harlow and Marilyn Monroe. In a remarkable turn of events, Johnny himself would become a Hollywood filmmaker―producing two of the best film noirs of the 1940s.Following years in federal prison, Rossell... [Read More]

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They stand proudly gazing across the Hudson River at the cliffs of New Jersey. Their brows are marked by ornamental pediments. Greek columns stand as sentries by their entrances and stone medallions bedeck their chests. They are seven graceful relics of Beaux Arts New York, townhouses built more than 100 years ago for a new class of industrialists, actors and scientists -- many from abroad -- who made their fortunes in the United States and shaped the lives of Americans.This book brings to life the ghosts who inhabit that row of townhouses on Manhattan’s stately Riverside Drive for the first fifty years of the 20th Century, including a vicious crew of hoodlums who carried out what at the time was the largest armored car robbery in American history. It was a daring, minutely planned exploit that ended in blood, when one of the gangsters accidentally shot himself. He was taken to one of the townhouses -- then, in 1934, an underworld safehouse -- where he died and was stuffed in a steamer trunk (but his cohorts had to saw off one of his legs to fit him in it). From gangsters to industrialists, from future mayors to murderers, from movie stars to mafia dons, one block in a burgeoning... [Read More]

Never before has a gallery of cops, robbers, and daredevil crooks ever been assembled into one collection. Using FBI and police film, archival footage, and rare photographs, this story traces the life of Al Scarface Capone who, during the prohibition era of the 1920s, built an empire that netted over $100 million in one year. The hard times of the 1920s and 1930s brought forth the romanticized public enemys John Dillinger, Bonnie Parker, and Clyde Barrow. It is all here, the dirty deeds of Legs Diamond, Dutch Schultz, Pretty Boy Floyd, Machine Gun Kelly, and other depression gangsters and lawmen, including J. Edgar Hoover and Melvin Purvis. DVD 1: Introduction; Legs Diamond and Dutch Schultz; Pretty Boy Floyd; Machine Gun Kelly; Al Capone; Bonnie and Clyde; John Dillinger. DVD 2: Bonus Features - Life in the 1920s and 1930s brought to you by Questar Entertainment and Hearst Entertainment. America in the News and American Nostalgia.

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