Get Capone

2010-04-27 True Crime

Author : Jonathan Eig
Release : 2010-04-27
Genre : True Crime
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 892/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Get Capone written by Jonathan Eig. This book was released on 2010-04-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Al Capone Does My Shirts

2006-04-20 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Gennifer Choldenko
Release : 2006-04-20
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 633/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Al Capone Does My Shirts written by Gennifer Choldenko. This book was released on 2006-04-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Newbery Honor Book and New York Times Bestseller that is historical fiction with a hint of mystery about living at Alcatraz not as a prisoner, but as a kid meeting some of the most famous criminals in our history. Al Capone Does My Shirts has become an instant classic for all kids to read! Today I moved to Alcatraz, a twelve-acre rock covered with cement, topped with bird turd and surrounded by water. I'm not the only kid who lives here. There are twenty-three other kids who live on the island because their dads work as guards or cooks or doctors or electricians for the prison, like my dad does. And then there are a ton of murderers, rapists, hit men, con men, stickup men, embezzlers, connivers, burglars, kidnappers and maybe even an innocent man or two, though I doubt it. The convicts we have are the kind other prisons don't want. I never knew prisons could be picky, but I guess they can. You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to. A Newbery Honor Book A New York Times Bestseller A People magazine "Best kid's Book" An ALA Book for Young Adults An ALA Notable Book A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Krikus Reviews Editor's Choice A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Parents' Choice Silver Honor Book A New York Public Library "100 Titles for Reading and Sharing" Selection A New York Public Library Best Book for the Teen Age *"Choldenko's pacing is exquisite. . . . [A] great read."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review *"Exceptionally atmospheric, fast-paced and memorable!"—Publishers Weekly, starred review *"The story, told with humor and skill, will fascinate readers."—School Library Journal, starred review "Al is the perfect novel for a young guy or moll who digs books by Gordon Korman, or Louis Sachar."—Time Out New York for Kids "Funny situations and plot twists abound!"—People magazine "Heartstopping in some places, heartrending in others, and most of all, it is heartwarming."—San Francisco Chronicle

Get Capone

2014-05-10 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Author : Jonathan Eig
Release : 2014-05-10
Genre : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 312/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Get Capone written by Jonathan Eig. This book was released on 2014-05-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using newly discovered documents, bestselling author Jonathan Eig tells the real story of the high-stakes criminal investigation that brought Al Capone to justice.

Al Capone Shines My Shoes

2013-07-19 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Gennifer Choldenko
Release : 2013-07-19
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 400/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Al Capone Shines My Shoes written by Gennifer Choldenko. This book was released on 2013-07-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moose's sister has got a place in the perfect school on the mainland, one that will help her deal with her autism. But there is one hitch. She got the place with the help of Al Capone and now it's payback time. Soon Moose is caught up in a terrible cycle of secrets and favours that threatens to destabilise his entire family in this nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat novel.

Get Capone

2010 Organized crime

Author : Jonathan Eig
Release : 2010
Genre : Organized crime
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Book Rating : 047/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Get Capone written by Jonathan Eig. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al Capone – immortalised by Al Pacino in the film Scarface – was America’s most wanted gangster in the prohibition era, and leader of the crime organisation, the Chicago Outfit.Capone dealt in gambling, prostitution, racketeering, casinos, and the illegal sale of liquor. Fights with many other gangs left hundreds dead, culminating in the atrocities of the St Valentines Day massacre in 1929.From President Herbert Hoover down to the US Attorney in Chicago, the word went out to ‘get Capone’. He was not caught by Elliot Ness and his ‘Untouchables’ – celebrated in Brian De Palma’s film of the same name – in the Bureau or Prohibition, but by government attorneys and accountants who, operating on direct orders from the President, risked their lives and compromised their ethics to get their man.In this fascinating new book, Eig uses recently discovered federal papers, wiretaps, memos, IRS records, and personal letters of Al Capone, as well as newly released government documents, to tell the real story of how Capone was brought to justice.In this vivid story of violence, corruption and blue-sky thinking, Eig tells the story of the rise and fall of one of the best-known gangsters in history.Jonathan Eig is a former writer and editor for The Wall Street Journal and is author of two highly acclaimed New York Times bestsellers.

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