Get Capone The Secret Plot That Captured America’s Most Wanted Gangster
Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America’s Most Wanted Gangster by Jonathan Eig is a detailed exploration of the life and downfall of Al Capone, published by Simon & Schuster on April 12, 2011. This reprint edition spans 480 pages and is presented in English. Eig utilizes newly uncovered government documents, wiretap transcripts, and personal letters from Capone to provide a comprehensive account of how the federal government ultimately apprehended one of America’s most notorious criminals.
Readers will find a thorough examination of Capone’s rise to power in Chicago during the 1920s, where he built a lucrative bootlegging empire and influenced local law enforcement and the judicial system. The narrative challenges the popular belief that Eliot Ness and his team were solely responsible for Capone’s capture, instead revealing the complexities of Capone’s character and the factors that led to his downfall. This book delves into themes of true crime and biography, offering insights into the historical context of Capone’s life and the criminal landscape of 20th-century America.
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The real story of how the federal government finally apprehended and convicted America’s most notorious criminal, Al Capone.
Drawing on recently discovered government documents, wiretap transcripts, and Al Capone’s handwritten personal letters, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Eig tells the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the nation’s most infamous criminal in rich new detail.
From the moment he arrived in Chicago in 1920, Capone found himself in a world with limitless opportunity. Within a few years Capone controlled an illegal bootlegging business with annual revenue rivaling that of some of the nation’s largest corporations. Along the way he corrupted the Chicago police force and local courts while becoming one of the world’s first international celebrities. Legend credits Eliot Ness and his “Untouchables” with apprehending Capone, but Eig shows that this wasn’t so. In Get Capone, the man known as “Scarface” emerges as a complex man, doomed as much by his ego as by his vicious criminality. This is the real Al Capone.
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