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Tashjian, Leon H Al Capone -- The Hawk -- Prohibition [*SIGNED*]
New York Vantage Press (c.1989) 0-533-08095-9 / 9780533080953 First Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Good dj
[good solid copy, light wear at spine ends; jacket is dampstained across bottom of rear panel, but book itself does not appear to have been affected, except for a stain at top of rear pastedown]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the rear pastedown (slightly affected by noted dampstain). The author, "popularly known as 'the Hawk,' takes us back to the days of Prohibition and such big-name gangsters as Al Capone, Yellow Kid Weil, John Dillinger, and others. This is the Hawk's own story of how, as a U.S. deputy marshal, he went after and brought in men known to the public and the government as dangerous and often desperate criminals, some of whom forged vast networks of crime, drawing into their syndicates not only the blatantly criminal but many of those charged with upholding the law as well. But there was another side to these men, too, and here we meet an Al Capone who 'did more to help the common people than all the government agencies and charity places put together.' These were gentlemanly men who, though their henchmen may have been killers, were themselves often beguilingly polite, responding to warrants for their arrest with an elegance of style Emily Post might have envied." The book "dramatize[s] the ills of a system that, in the end, was to bring about the Hawk's own fall from grace." (++) Signed by Author
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