Details

Subject(s)

• Prohibition—United States—History [Browse]
• Organized crime—United States—History [Browse]
• Mafia—United States—History [Browse]

Summary note

Based on FBI and other government files, trial transcripts, and the latest scholarship, this book provides a lively narrative of shootouts, car chases, courtroom clashes, wire tapping and rub-outs in the 1920s, the 1930s, and beyond, acknowledging how the Prohibition generation-Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Dutch Schultz, among others-forever transformed organized crime from loosely associated gangs of the pre-Prohibition era into sophisticated, complex syndicates. It applies a generational perspecti.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Print version record.

ISBN

• 9780813561165 ((electronic bk.))
• 0813561167 ((electronic bk.))
• 9781461934981 ((electronic bk.))
• 1461934982 ((electronic bk.))

Other standard number

• 99954967969

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