Lowe, Lindsey
Summary: The era of Prohibition was unlike any other in U.S. history. Though alcohol was illegal, crime syndicates began making and selling it--and the U.S. government tried to take action against them. In this engaging volume, readers encounter the most famous feud of this crime boss Al Capone and the "untouchable" Eliot Ness of the Prohibition Bureau. Containing both biographical information as well...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing, LLC 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 364.1092 LOWIce-T
Summary: "Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Ice-T unveils a compelling and astonishing memoir of his early life robbing jewelry stores until he found fame and fortune-while a handful of bad choices sent his former crime partner down an incredibly different path"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ICELekas, Gerry
Summary: "This isn't your average travel book--and these aren't your average tourist destinations! Take a wild ride through hidden Windy City history--often dark, sometimes inexplicable, and occasionally glamorous. Meet the gangsters, ghosts, serial killers and celebrities that only Chicago could produce. This journey into eclectic Chicago lore includes: 19 spine-tingling creepy sites (Resurrection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Lyon Publishing, LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.311 LEKO'Reilly, Bill
Summary: Covering the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, O'Reilly and Dugard trace the prohibition-busting bank robbers of the Depression Era, such as John Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby-Face Nelson. In addition, the authors highlight the creation of the Mafia Commission, the power struggles within the "Five Families," the growth of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, the mob battles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 O'RECopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.1060 ORESussman, Jeffrey
Summary: "Sin City Gangsters is an exciting page-turner about how the mob created and controlled modern Las Vegas and then lost it to Corporate America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 SUSCollins, Max Allan
Summary: "A THRILLING MAGNUM OPUS ON AMERICA'S GREAT CRIME EPIC. A Mystery Writers of America "Grand Master"--author of the gangster classic Road to Perdition, long-time Dick Tracy writer, and multiple Shamus Award winner--teams with an acclaimed rising young historian, in this riveting, myth-shattering dual portrait of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the legendary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 COLSwanson, Doug J.
Summary: " The astonishing story of Benny Binion-a rip-roaring saga of murder, money, and the making of Las Vegas Benny Binion was many things: a cowboy, a pioneering casino owner, a gangster, a killer, and founder of the hugely successful World Series of Poker. Blood Aces tells the story of Binion's crucial role in shaping modern Las Vegas. From a Texas backwater, Binion rose to prominence on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BINION, BENNY BINHernández, Anabel
Summary: "Este libro forma parte del largo recorrido periodístico de Anabel Hernández en su incesante búsqeuda por entender el complejo imperio del crimen organizado y los cárteles de la droga en México, los cuales desde hace décadas tienen sumida a la nación en una espiral de violencia en la que todos los días son explotadas, desaparecidas o asesinadas decenas de personas inocentes, muchas de ellas del...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grijalbo 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 HERSummary: This compilation of five early short films by Martin Scorsese offers a fascinating window onto his artistic development. Spanning the years from Scorsese's time at NYU in the mid-1960s to the late '70s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SCOBair, Deirdre
Summary: "Born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, to poor, Italian immigrant parents, Al Capone went on to become the most infamous gangster in American history. In 1925, during the height of Prohibition, Capone's multi-million-dollar Chicago bootlegging, prostitution, and gambling operation dominated the organized-crime scene. His competition with rival gangs was brutally violent, a long-running war that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAPONE, AL BAIMatthews, Rupert.
Summary: "Keep your cool. If you panic and reveal your true identity, you'll be in big trouble. Stay away from thugs "packing heat." These ruthless gangsters are armed and very dangerous. Step on it! As a wheelman, you'll have to drive a gateway car at top speed. Don't get too comfy. Some gangsters lead a life of luxury. Don't forget that their money has beeen stolen from honest folks" --Cover, p. 4.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 364 MATScarpa, Linda.
Summary: "Gregory Scarpa, Sr. was a stone-cold killer in the Colombo crime family, but to Linda, he was also a loving, devoted father. She reveals what it was like to grow up in the violent world of the mob and to come to grips with the truth about her father and the devastation he wrought"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media Inc 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 SCARPA, LINDA SCASummary: Chronicles the untold history of Las Vegas, a story that may have never existed without the foresight and sponsorship of America's organized crime syndicate. Las Vegas is the country's greatest resort city and the gambling capital of the world. Home of the famous, and infamous Strip. The right price will get every kind of entertainment and is available for everyone and anyone at any time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV VEGCullen, Kevin
Summary: This unforgettable narrative follows the astonishing career and epic manhunt for Whitey Bulger -- a gangster whose life was more sensational than fiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 CULCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 BULSeitz, Matt Zoller
Summary: A mobster walked into a psychiatrist's office ... No, it wasn't the start of a joke: it was the start of a program that changed TV history. By shattering preconceptions about the kinds of stories the medium should tell, The Sopranos launched our current age of prestige television. Television critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz were among the first to write about the series before it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 SEIBrandt, Charles
Summary: Provides an account of the life and activities of late Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran, based on taped interviews with Sheeran, one of only two non-Italians to appear on the FBI's La Cosa Nostra list, discussing his childhood, World War II service, and work as a hustler, hitman, and head of the Teamsters local in Wilmington, Delaware.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 BRAEig, Jonathan.
Summary: Traces the criminal investigation of the notorious mobster, documenting his rise during the Prohibition era, the legal strategy that enabled his prosecution, and the possibility that he was innocent of the St. Valentine's Day massacre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 EIGEig, Jonathan.
Summary: Traces the criminal investigation of the notorious mobster, documenting his rise during the Prohibition era, the legal strategy that enabled his prosecution, and the possibility that he was innocent of the St. Valentine's Day massacre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1092 EIGEnglish, T. J.
Summary: Here is the true saga of the Irish American mob, from the mid-nineteenth century all the way to the present day. The heritage of the Irish American gangster was established in America long before that of the more widely portrayed Italian American mafioso, and has held strong through the modern age. In fact, the highest-ranking organized crime figure on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List is not a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regan Books 2005
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 364.1 ENGSummary: While in prison with his father, Frank Calabrese Sr., on racketeering charges, Frank Jr, a former member of the Chicago crime syndicate known as the Outfit, offered to help the FBI keep his father in prison for life by testifying against him. Now in the federal witness protection program and living in an undisclosed location, Frank Jr. gives an insider's view of the Outfit and how he helped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 364.1092 CALHill, Henry
Contents: The city -- Food to die for -- Hitting the mattress -- Where they lived -- Where they died -- Where they lie -- Clubbing, without a bat -- Wiseguy playgrounds -- Shows, festivals, and parties -- Shopping and shoplifting -- Staying in -- For the little goodfellas and felletes -- Unwritten rules of the street, written.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.47 HILKonigsberg, Eric.
Summary: Eric Konigsberg's great uncle, Harold "Kayo" Konigsberg, was a mobster, a killer and a con artist. F.B.I. agents considered him the smartest hit man they'd ever met. None of his relatives ever spoke of him, until one day, Eric got a phone call...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 KONLehr, Dick.
Summary: Whitey Bulger was the crime boss and killer who brought the FBI to its knees. Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill examine and reveal the factors and forces that created the monster. This is a deeply rendered portrait of evil that spans nearly a century, taking Whitey from the streets of his boyhood Southie in the 1940s to his cell in Alcatraz in the 1950s to his cunning, corrupt pact with the FBI in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BULGER, WHITEY LEHMilito, Lynda.
Summary: The wife of a member of the Gambino family chronicles the rise and fall of this underworld gang and describes her view inside the Mafia, her turbulent marriage, and her life following the 1988 disappearance of her husband.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003