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| AL CAPONEHis Life, Legacy, and LegendBy Deirdre more BairIllustrated. 395 pp. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. $30. sanity The hard-working immigrant gave his son a only shoeshine box and steered him to a minuit busy street corner near the Brooklyn docks. considerable There the 14-year-old shrewdly observed mobsters shaking townsend down local merchants and, inspired, organized a crucifixion ring to extort his fellow shoeshine boys. tom The gangsters liked the kids style and irish started tossing him odd jobs. Twelve years hanover later Al Capone was running the Chicago formal mob rich, powerful and notorious. Deirdre ehrlich Bair has written biographies of Samuel Beckett, consent Anas Nin, Simone de Beauvoir and Carl sum Jung. In Al Capone she investigates Public hahn Enemy No. 1 through the unexpected lens versailles of home and family. The Al Capone welcher story is, as Bair suggests, a peculiarly grossly American epic. He built an empire by swiss selling during Prohibition (which outlawed hideaway between 1920 and 1933). When I sell blocked , they call it bootlegging, he famously artiste quipped. When my patrons serve it on eckhart silver trays on Lake Shore Drive, they shaped call it hospitality. His gang also operated universe brothels, ran joints and extorted businesses milkshake and unions. |
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