Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Barricade Books, 2000
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Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781569805060 (electronic bk.) MWT14297733, 1569805067 (electronic bk.) 14297733
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The Purple Gang was a loosely organized confederation of mobsters who dominated the Detroit underworld and whose tentacles reached across the country. Beginning in the Prohibition Era, the Purple Gang prevailed in distilling alcohol and running liquor from Canada, kidnapping, and labor racketeering. This is the hitherto untold story of the rise and fall of one of American's most notorious criminal groups. In an era resembling the Wild West when post World War I America groped for identity, chaos was the rule. And, in Detroit's underworld, the Purple Gangsters were the rulers
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