The kosher Capones : a history of Chicago's Jewish gangsters
(2019)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
364.106089/KRAUS,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Ithaca [New York] : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2019
©2019
©2019
DESCRIPTION
viii, 225 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781501747311, 1501747312, 9781501747311 40029432232
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Introduction : connecting the dots -- The end, or Zukie's bad day -- Beyond Scarface, a kosher Capone for Maxwell Street -- The sunset of 1974 : Lenny Patrick's changing world -- Landing in Lawndale -- Rising in the ranks -- Roots of the Lawndale machine -- Arvey's balancing act -- Syndicate hammer -- Sizing up the outfit -- Tentacles -- When Scarface met Rico -- Lenny's circus turn -- Afterword : a question answered
"The Kosher Capones tells the story of Chicago's Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s"--