Bair, Deirdre
Summary: "Born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, to poor, Italian immigrant parents, Al Capone went on to become the most infamous gangster in American history. In 1925, during the height of Prohibition, Capone's multi-million-dollar Chicago bootlegging, prostitution, and gambling operation dominated the organized-crime scene. His competition with rival gangs was brutally violent, a long-running war that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAPONE, AL BAIMeralli, Swann
Summary: Based on truth, lies, myths, and rumors, this is the story of the greatest gangster of all time: Al Capone. Family man, community leader, industrious smuggler, or vicious killer? You decide. Born into a poor Italian family in Brooklyn in 1899, little Alphonse didn't have a lot of options, so he'd have to get creative in order to make a name for himself. A bit of cards, some enforcing, maybe a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Panel Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAPONE, AL MERSummary: Childhood friends Brian and Paulie do whatever it takes to survive in the dog-eat-dog neighborhood they live in. As they grow up they find themselves involved in organized crime and jail becomes part of doing business on the streets they call home. Brian uses his time in jail to get clean while Paulie makes plans for one last job that requires Brian's help. Brian must decide if he should stand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WHAEnglish, T. J.
Summary: "From T.J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 ENGO'Reilly, Bill
Summary: O'Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in the United States, and expertly plumb the history of this nation₂s most notorious serial robbers, conmen, murderers, and especially, mob family bosses. Covering the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, O'Reilly and Dugard trace the prohibition-busting bank robbers of the Depression Era, such as John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.106 OREGoldsmith, Jack L.
Summary: "The story of Chuckie O'Brien, Jimmy Hoffa's right-hand man"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.881 GOLO'Reilly, Bill
Summary: "Killing the Mob is the tenth book in Bill O'Reilly's #1 New York Times bestselling series of popular narrative histories, with sales of nearly 18 million copies worldwide, and over 320 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. O'Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in the United States, and expertly plumb the history of this nation's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This collection of documentaries produced by A & E presents a broad overview of organized crime in America, beginning with immigrants who formed gangs soon after arriving in the late 19th century. The focus is on Italian-American gangsters, though there are mentions of Irish and Jewish gangs, which at various times cooperated with or competed against the Mafia, and one program in the collection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2001
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAFO'Reilly, Bill
Summary: Covering the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, O'Reilly and Dugard trace the prohibition-busting bank robbers of the Depression Era, such as John Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby-Face Nelson. In addition, the authors highlight the creation of the Mafia Commission, the power struggles within the "Five Families," the growth of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, the mob battles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.1060 OREBrandt, Charles
Summary: Provides an account of the life and activities of late Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran, based on taped interviews with Sheeran, one of only two non-Italians to appear on the FBI's La Cosa Nostra list, discussing his childhood, World War II service, and work as a hustler, hitman, and head of the Teamsters local in Wilmington, Delaware.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 BRAContents: Disc 1: The Mafia comes to America ; Little Caesar -- The Irish gangs ; The Public enemy -- Al Capone's Chicago mob ; Scarface -- Disc 2. The Law Gang - AKA, the FBI ; G Man -- Lucky Luciano's New York Mafia ; Marked woman -- The Rackets ; Loan shark -- Disc 3.The Black Mafia ; The Black godfather -- The Jewish Mafia ; The Purple Gang -- The Godfathers ; Honor thy father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HOLSlater, Dan
Summary: This harrowing tale of early twentieth century New York reveals the true stories of an immigrant underworld, a secret vice squad, and the rise of organized crime. In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the Lower East Side, then the most crowded ghetto on earth, Eastern European Jews formed a dense web of crime syndicates. Gangs of horse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Fulsom, Don
Summary: Unbeknownst to most people even now, the election of 1968 placed the patron saint of the Mafia in the White House. In other words, Richard Nixon would go on to not only lead a criminal presidency; he would be totally indebted to our nation's top mobsters. By 1969, thanks in large part to his long-time campaign manager and political advisor Murray Chotiner, a lawyer who specialized in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 FULDash, Mike.
Summary: Using previously untapped Secret Service archives, prison records, and interviews with surviving family members, Dash presents the gripping story of the birth of the Italian Mafia in America, and brings to life the remarkable villains and unusual heroes of the Mafia's early years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 364.1 DASCrouch, Blake.
Summary: When his beloved wife vanishes during an electrical storm on a lonely desert highway, Will Innis is wrongly accused of murder and flees with his daughter only to be approached by a hard-edged FBI agent who informs Will that his wife was not the only person who has disappeared.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace] 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P CROPorter, Bruce
Summary: "BLOW is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel -- the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung's early business of flying marijuana into the United States from the mountains of Mexico took a dramatic turn when he met Carlos Lehder, a young Colombian car...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 PORFerrante, Louis
Summary: A former mafia associate and heist expert who spent eight years in prison for not incriminating his fellow Gambino family members presents the history of the mafia's first 100 years, from Sicily in the 1860s to America in the 1960s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 FERTalty, Stephan
Summary: Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave filled New York City, and then the entire country, with fear. The children of Italian immigrants were kidnapped, and dozens of innocent victims were gunned down. Bombs tore apart tenement buildings. Judges, senators, Rockefellers, and society matrons were threatened with gruesome deaths. The perpetrators seemed both omnipresent and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 TALSummary: GoodFellas: Follows a mid-level gangster over three decades from his Brooklyn neighborhood to his arrest by the FBI.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2011
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MARSummary: A cop has been put in charge of protecting a gangster's girlfriend as she is being transported from Chicago to L.A. by train to testify before a grand jury. He has his work cut out, though, as there are hitmen on the train that are after her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The world's most infamous crime organization had done very well for itself in the Old Country, but did not truly blossom until its nefarious emissaries reached the shores of America. Featuring revealing interviews with victims and perpetrators of mob violence, combined with gripping archival film footage. Features Mafia trivia Q & A, direct scene access, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAFSummary: British newsreel about forest rangers with rifles patrolling New York streets to stop gangland shootings; interviewed one ranger blames prohibition for criminals' warfare. Mafia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1931
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Flynn, Jack
Summary: Boston is in the grip of the coldest winter on record, but in its criminal underworld the temperature is rising. Harbor chief Cormack O’Connell has lived his life close to the wire – above and below the law. He knows every movement on his waterfront, and that's why someone wants him out of the way, fast. Homeland security agent Kit Steele is committed to avenge terrorism. Also known as The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLYEdmonds, Andy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carol Pub. Group 1993