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CHICAGO GANG LAND THE TRUE STORY OF CHICAGO CRIME
Chicago Chicago Tribune (1929)
485.00
Condition is good only with soiling and scuffing to covers, wear to corners and spine ends, soiling to some of the pages as well, first page has some nick right side.
87 pages with photos.
87 pages with photos.
8vo. (6” x 9”), illustrated wrappers.
From the Foreword, "Here begins the story of the gangsters of boozedom and what they have done to Chicago. It is the story of quiet, sinister John Torrio; boisterous, brutal Dean O'Banion; slick Al Capone, and the ruthless Genna brothers, ...
"It is important to see them as they are - criminals in business and business men in crime, pimps and bawdy house keepers and safecrackers turned bootleggers - and not as just cheery racketeers whom supposedly reputable officials are not ashamed to palter with and dine with and traffic for votes with.
"So here begins the story which purposes the debunking of the gangsters of boozedom."
A very scarce contemporary look on the roaring twenties, from the beginnings of Prohibition to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, of Chicago by James O’Donnell Bennett for the Chicago Tribune.
"It is important to see them as they are - criminals in business and business men in crime, pimps and bawdy house keepers and safecrackers turned bootleggers - and not as just cheery racketeers whom supposedly reputable officials are not ashamed to palter with and dine with and traffic for votes with.
"So here begins the story which purposes the debunking of the gangsters of boozedom."
A very scarce contemporary look on the roaring twenties, from the beginnings of Prohibition to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, of Chicago by James O’Donnell Bennett for the Chicago Tribune.
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