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Historic Photos of Chicago Crime: The Capone Era

Historic Photos of Chicago Crime: The Capone Era

Russick, John

Hardcover

Series: Historic Photos

CriminologyGeneral PhotographyRegional: Midwest

Publisher Price: $41.99

ISBN10: 1683369718
ISBN13: 9781683369714
Publisher: Turner
Published: Nov 1 2007
Pages: 202
Weight: 1.66
Height: 0.75 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Perhaps no city has a more fabled past than Chicago, home of legendary Al Capone. But that fabled past is often portrayed separate from the surrounding web of social realities, without which no event, no period in time can be understood.

Historic Photos of Chicago Crime: The Capone Era addresses this problem by opening with a compelling look at Chicago's cityscape to include a broad range of cultural phenomena-from suffrage to jazz--essential to the contextualization of crime in the 1920s and 1930s. The history then proceeds as its title suggests--to a riveting overview of crime in Chicago, chock-full of images documenting notorious gangsters and gruesome gangland wars. Al Capone, John Torrio, Earl Hymie Weiss, George Bugs Moran, and a host of others are all here. Replete with insightful captions and penetrating chapter introductions by historian John Russick, these photos offer a unique view into Chicago and its nefarious past.

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