According to the Eliot Ness myth, which has been widely disseminated through books, television shows, and movies, Ness and the Untouchables defeated Al Capone by marshaling superior firepower. In this book, Dennis E. Hoffman presents a fresh new perspective on the downfall of Al…
According to the Elliot Ness myth, which has been widely disseminated through books, television shows, and movies, Ness and the Untouchables defeated Al Capone by marshaling superior firepower. In Scarface Al and the Crime Crusaders, Dennis Hoffman presents a fresh new perspecti…
Profiles the life of Al Capone, including his criminal life trafficking alcohol in 1920's Chicago and how he went insane while he was imprisoned in Alcatraz.
Covers Capone's life and presents a cultural history of organized crime, the prohibition era, and the struggle of lower-class Americans to rise in society.
Road to perdition
by Collins, Max Allan, Rayner, Richard Piers, Lappan, Bob
fromVertigo crime
Rock Island, Illinois -- 1929. Michael O'Sullivan is a good father and a family man -- and also the chief enforcer for John Looney, the town's Irish Godfather of crime. As Looney's "Angel of Death," O'Sullivan has done the bidding of Chicago gangsters Al Capone and Frank Nitti a…
Road to perdition
by Collins, Max Allan, Rayner, Richard Piers, Lappan, Bob
fromVertigo crime
Rock Island, Illinois -- 1929. Michael O'Sullivan is a good father and a family man -- and also the chief enforcer for John Looney, the town's Irish Godfather of crime. As Looney's "Angel of Death," O'Sullivan has done the bidding of Chicago gangsters Al Capone and Frank Nitti a…
"The original graphic novel that inspired the major motion picture from Dreamworks Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox"--Cover.
Road to perdition
by Collins, Max Allan, Rayner, Richard Piers, Lappan, Bob
fromVertigo crime
Rock Island, Illinois -- 1929. Michael O'Sullivan is a good father and a family man -- and also the chief enforcer for John Looney, the town's Irish Godfather of crime. As Looney's "Angel of Death," O'Sullivan has done the bidding of Chicago gangsters Al Capone and Frank Nitti a…
A stunning memoir by the "last living Capone*." Deirdre Marie Capone offers the portrait of an American family and her favorite Uncle, endlessly depicted as the iconic mastermind behind some of the century s most brutal killings. Filled with never-before published family photos …
A stunning memoir by the "last living Capone*." Deirdre Marie Capone offers the portrait of an American family and her favorite Uncle, endlessly depicted as the iconic mastermind behind some of the century s most brutal killings. Filled with never-before published family photos …