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From a Country wide E book Award-winning biographer, the first complete life of renowned gangster Al Capone to be produced with the cooperation of his family, who provided the writer with exclusive access to personal testimony and archival documents. From his heyday for this moment, Al Capone - General public Enemy NUMBER 1 - has gripped popular imagination. Increasing from humble Brooklyn origins, Capone continued to become the most infamous gangster in American record. At the elevation of Prohibition, his multimillion-dollar Chicago bootlegging, prostitution, and gaming operation dominated the organized-crime arena. His competition with rival gangs was brutally violent, a long-running conflict that crested with the stunning St. ROMANTIC DAYS CELEBRATION Massacre of 1929. Law enforcement and the press elite looked powerless to avoid the growth of his empire. And then the street to redemption: a legal noose tightened by the FBI, a conviction on tax evasion, Alcatraz. After his release he delivered to his family in Miami a much diminished man, living quietly before ravages of his neurosyphilis got their last toll. But the slick mobster persona endures, immortalized in many novels and videos. The real flesh-and-blood man behind the star has long remained a mystery. Unscrupulous magazine accounts and Capone's own tall stories perpetuated his mystique, but through dogged research Deirdre Bair debunks the most outrageous of these myths. With the help of Capone's descendants, she discovers his essential mankind, uncovering a intricate identity that was flawed and sometimes cruel but also capable of nobility. Even though uncovering the private Al Capone, an authentic family man as kept in mind by those who recognized him best, Bair relates how his descendants have borne his weighty legacy. Rigorous and close, Al Capone provides new answers to the enduring questions concerning this fascinating figure, who was similar parts charismatic gangster, devoted patriarch, and determining monster.
