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Eminent Gangsters
James Fentress
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Description for Eminent Gangsters
Paperback. This book explores a central and significant chapter in the social and economic history of modern America. If the story of the eminent gangsters is not the orthodox, rags-to-riches American success story, neither can it be dismissed as merely a crime story. Num Pages: 500 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JKVM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 740.
'This American system of ours,' observed Al Capone, 'call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we can only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.' Capone spoke as a member of a generation who, seizing the opportunities offered by the Eighteenth Amendment of the US Constitution, which prohibited the manufacture, transport, or sale of alcoholic beverages, enriched himself and laid the basis for modern organized crime in America. Yet if the story of the eminent gangsters is not the orthodox, ... Read more
'This American system of ours,' observed Al Capone, 'call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we can only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.' Capone spoke as a member of a generation who, seizing the opportunities offered by the Eighteenth Amendment of the US Constitution, which prohibited the manufacture, transport, or sale of alcoholic beverages, enriched himself and laid the basis for modern organized crime in America. Yet if the story of the eminent gangsters is not the orthodox, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
500
Condition
New
Number of Pages
500
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761852155
SKU
V9780761852155
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About James Fentress
James Fentress studied at Princeton and Oxford universities. He taught political philosophy at the University of London. The author of Rebels and Mafiosi, a history of the foundation of the mafia in Sicily, Fentress has written and lectured extensively on the mafia and organized crime. He has three children and currently lives in Rome.
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