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Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair : the end of the gangster era in Chicago / William Elliott Hazelgrove.
Author
Hazelgrove, William, 1959-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
Description
xiii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
F548.5 .H39 2017
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Subject(s)
Chicago (Ill.)
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History
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20th century
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Chicago (Ill.)
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Civilization
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20th century
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Chicago (Ill.)
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Social conditions
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20th century
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Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 Chicago, Ill.)
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Capone, Al 1899-1947
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Library of Congress genre(s)
True crime stories
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Summary note
"William Elliot Hazelgrove provides the exciting and sprawling history behind the 1933 World's Fair, the last of the golden age. He reveals the story of the six millionaire businessmen, dubbed the Secret Six, who beat Al Capone at his own game, ending the gangster era as Prohibition was repealed. He also details the story of an intriguing woman, Sally Rand, who embodied the ideals of the World's Fair with her own rags-to-riches story and brought sex into the open, as well as the story of Rufus and Charles Dawes, who gave the fair a theme and found financing during the worst economic times the country had ever experienced." -- Book jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-247) and index.
Contents
Chicago, May 27, 1933
Valentine's Day, 1929
Chicago's second World's Fair
WAMPAS baby star
Public enemy number one
The white city
Bootlegging
The big man
The big fellah comes home
The perfect storm
Financing a fair
The untouchables
Birth of the nymphs
Death in the underground
Breaking ground
The secret six
The modernists
Lady Godiva
Horatio Alger returns
The design
The secret six get to work
Beginning to build the rainbow city
Gold diggers
Meeting Al Capone
Water, electric, and the sky ride
One hundred thousand
The depression fair
Nymphs
Springtime in Chicago
The sky ride
The trial of Al Capone
Color and light
The plea bargain
The temple of womanhood
The bad plea bargain
Frank Lloyd Wright's fair
Hayseeds
The gaseous tube
The disposable fair
Verdict
Racing the clock
Capone on ice
Lady Godiva again
Death of the untouchables
A day at the fair
Sex at the fair
A century of progress
Rags to riches
End of the fair.
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End of the gangster era in Chicago
ISBN
9781442272262 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
1442272260 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
9781442272279
1442272279
LCCN
2017006093
OCLC
987376366
Other standard number
40027547930
International Article Number
9781442272262
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