Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend - Brossura

Bair, Deirdre

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ISBN 10: 0345804511 ISBN 13: 9780345804518

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017

Riassunto

At the height of Prohibition, Al Capone loomed large as Public Enemy Number One: his multimillion-dollar Chicago Outfit dominated organized crime, and law enforcement was powerless to stop him. But then came the fall: a legal noose tightened by the FBI, a conviction on tax evasion, a stint in Alcatraz. After his release, he returned to his family in Miami a much diminished man, living quietly until the ravages of his neurosyphilis took their final toll.
 
Our shared fascination with Capone endures in countless novels and movies, but the man behind the legend has remained a mystery. Now, through rigorous research and exclusive access to Capone’s family, National Book Award–winning biographer Deirdre Bair cuts through the mythology, uncovering a complex character who was flawed and cruel but also capable of nobility. At once intimate and iconoclastic, Al Capone gives us the definitive account of a quintessentially American figure.

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"Bair discovers a rich trove of legends--one that reverberates with the romance of ethnic America ... [she] is a wise and often iconoclastic guide through Capone mythology."
--New York Times Book Review
"A brilliant and engaging writer, able to construct compelling and nuanced life stories in gripping prose ... [Bair's] access to Capone's descendants, and their family stories, makes compelling reading, and even fills in a few blank places in narratives of his evasions of the police and rival gangsters that Capone aficionados know well."
--Chicago Tribune
"Al Capone provides tremendous insight into the man who, decades after his death, may be the best-known Chicagoan of all time."
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Deirdre Bair offers a new history of Capone, and separates fact from fiction in the process ... Bair's Capone is powerfully human, a daunting task given his infamous pop culture stature."
--Smithsonian
"A definitive biography of 'Public Enemy #1' ... Bair has written perhaps the last word on Capone. Highly recommended."
--Library Journal
"Deirdre Bair's enticing new gangster biography knocks it out of the park. In the hands of a master life-storyteller, Al Capone's brief, explosive career seems as all-American as apple pie and sawed-off shotguns. Fans of The Godfather, The Sopranos, or Boardwalk Empire are sure to find the book addictive."
--Marion Meade, author of Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
"Deirdre Bair's command of her subject is encyclopedic ... Never before have we had such a complete and engrossing picture of Capone's life and times."
--Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family and screenwriter of Goodfellas and Casino



-Bair discovers a rich trove of legends--one that reverberates with the romance of ethnic America ... [she] is a wise and often iconoclastic guide through Capone mythology.-
--New York Times Book Review
-A brilliant and engaging writer, able to construct compelling and nuanced life stories in gripping prose ... [Bair's] access to Capone's descendants, and their family stories, makes compelling reading, and even fills in a few blank places in narratives of his evasions of the police and rival gangsters that Capone aficionados know well.-
--Chicago Tribune
-Al Capone provides tremendous insight into the man who, decades after his death, may be the best-known Chicagoan of all time.-
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch
-Deirdre Bair offers a new history of Capone, and separates fact from fiction in the process ... Bair's Capone is powerfully human, a daunting task given his infamous pop culture stature.-
--Smithsonian
-A definitive biography of 'Public Enemy #1' ... Bair has written perhaps the last word on Capone. Highly recommended.-
--Library Journal
-Deirdre Bair's enticing new gangster biography knocks it out of the park. In the hands of a master life-storyteller, Al Capone's brief, explosive career seems as all-American as apple pie and sawed-off shotguns. Fans of The Godfather, The Sopranos, or Boardwalk Empire are sure to find the book addictive.-
--Marion Meade, author of Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
-Deirdre Bair's command of her subject is encyclopedic ... Never before have we had such a complete and engrossing picture of Capone's life and times.-
--Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family and screenwriter of Goodfellas and Casino

L'autore

Deirdre Bair received the National Book Award for Samuel Beckett: A Biography. Her biographies of Simone de Beauvoir and Carl Jung were finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Simone de Beauvoir biography was chosen by The New York Times as a Best Book of the Year. Her biography of Anaïs Nin and her most recent book, Saul Steinberg: A Biography, were both New York Times Notable Books.

www.deirdrebairauthor.com

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0345804511
• ISBN 13: 9780345804518
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 416