Al Capone.
Date Submitted: 06/18/2004 00:04:42
Category: / Law & Government / Law Issues
Length: 6 pages (1674 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Law Issues
Length: 6 pages (1674 words)
Al Capone is America's best known gangster and the single greatest symbol of the collapse of law and order in the United States during the 1920s Prohibition era. Capone had a leading role in the illegal activities that lent Chicago its reputation as a lawless city.
Capone was born on January 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York. Baptized "Alphonsus Capone," he grew up in a rough neighborhood and was a member of two "kid gangs," the Brooklyn …
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…of Chicago's Prohibition Era. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1968.
- Bergreen, Laurence. Capone: the Man and the Era. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.
- Enright, Richard T. Capone's Chicago. Likeville, MN: Northstar Maschek Books, 1931; 1987 reprint.
- Halper, Albert, editor. The Chicago Crime Book. Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1967.
- Hammer, Richard. The illustrated history of organized crime. Philadelphia: Courage Books, 1989.
- Kobler, John. Capone: the Life and World of Al Capone. New York: Da Capo Press, 1992.
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