Go into any souvenir store on a touristy Chicago street and behold the man: Al Capone. His visage will adorn T-shirts, refrigerator magnets, coffee cups and countless tacky tchotchkes people buy to ...
The real Al Capone. From Brooklyn kid to Chicago crime boss, a new biography gives the whole story. This Jan. 19, 1931, file photo shows Chicago mobster Al Capone at a football game. (AP File) The ...
The life story of Al Capone is unrivaled in Chicago history, and perhaps American history. How did an ill-educated bouncer from Brooklyn become not just a powerful crime boss — many such crime bosses ...
Deirdre Bair is know for writing about artists and intellectuals, having earned a National Book Award for her biography of Samuel Beckett. So Bair’s publisher thought she was crazy when the author ...
Meet the author of a new book that looks at the private life of the notorious criminal. National Book Award winner Deidre Bair has written the first complete biography of Al Capone, with exclusive ...
During World War II, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt needed a secure means of transportation. Was the answer a limo once ...
(AllHipHop News) Run The Jewels group member and accomplished producer El-P will score the upcoming Al Capone bio-pic “Fonzo.” The flick, which is being directed by Josh Trank, features an all-star ...
Notorious mobster Al Capone was a larger than life bootlegger, racketeer, killer and organized crime boss in the first half of the 20th century, who has been portrayed on big-screen and small for ...
Eliot Ness may be a household name today, thanks to Hollywood portrayals by Kevin Costner and Robert Stack. But when he died, the famed Prohibition agent had all but been forgotten, Douglas Perry ...
This program originally broadcast on October 27, 2016. The real Al Capone. From Brooklyn kid to Chicago crime boss, a new biography gives the whole story. This Jan. 19, 1931, file photo shows Chicago ...