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Collins, Max Allan. author.
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Capone, Al, 1899-1947.
Ness, Eliot.
Gangsters -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
Organized crime -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
Crime -- Illinois -- Chicago.
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Scarface and the unt...
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Scarface and the untouchable : Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the battle for
Chicago
/ Max Allan Collins & A. Brad Schwartz.
by
Collins, Max Allan. author.
Subjects
Capone, Al, 1899-1947.
Ness, Eliot.
Gangsters
--
Illinois
--
Chicago
--
Biography.
Organized
crime
--
Illinois
--
Chicago
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Crime
--
Illinois
--
Chicago
.
Publisher Info:
New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
©2018
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xix, 699 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
RDA Types:
text
unmediated
volume
ISBN:
9780062441942
0062441949
9780062441959
0062441957
Contents:
Introduction: Untouchable truth
--
Map:
Organized
crime
in 1920s
Chicago
--
Rogues' gallery
--
Prologue: St. Valentine's Day
--
Prairie Avenue boys
--
Citizen Capone
--
On the spot
--
Epilogue: The great American city.
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Summary:
A riveting, myth-shattering dual portrait of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the legendary Prohibition agent whose extraordinary investigative work crippled his organization. Written with novelistic pacing and underpinned by groundbreaking research, Collins and Schwartz deliver the definitive account of the iconic struggle between the mythic yet real combatants who have captivated the world for 90 years.
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"In 1929, thirty-year-old gangster Al Capone ruled both
Chicago
's underworld and its corrupt government. To a public who scorned Prohibition, 'Scarface' became a local hero and national celebrity. But after the brutal St. Valentine's Day Massacre transformed Capone into 'Public Enemy Number One,' the federal government found an unlikely new hero in a twenty-seven-year-old Prohibition agent named Eliot Ness. Chosen to head the legendary law enforcement team known as 'The Untouchables,' Ness set his sights on crippling Capone's criminal empire. Today, no underworld figure is more iconic than Al Capone and no lawman as renowned as Eliot Ness. Yet in 2016 the
Chicago
Tribune wrote, 'Al Capone still awaits the biographer who can fully untangle, and balance, the complexities of his life,' while revisionist historians have continued to misrepresent Ness and his remarkable career. Enter Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz, a unique and vibrant writing team combining the narrative skill of a master novelist with the scholarly rigor of a trained historian. Collins is the New York Times bestselling author of the gangster classic Road to Perdition. Schwartz is a rising-star historian whose work anticipated the fake-news phenomenon. Scarface and the Untouchable draws upon decades of primary source research--including the personal papers of Ness and his associates, newly released federal files, and long-forgotten
crime
magazines containing interviews with the gangsters and G-men themselves. Collins and Schwartz have recaptured a bygone bullet-ridden era while uncovering the previously unrevealed truth behind Scarface's downfall. Together they have crafted the definitive work on Capone, Ness, and the battle for
Chicago
."--Dust jacket.
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