9798259442221 - the chicago beer wars: al capone's bloody business and the making of the underworld boss de bruno, rico (6 resultados)
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Librería: Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, Estados Unidos de AmericaGrand Eagle Retail
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Chicago, 1920. The Volstead Act has turned thirst into a black market, and the city's ancient corruption is ready to be organized. Into this moment steps a twenty-one-year-old from Brooklyn with a scar on his cheek, a gift for loyalty, and no hesitation about violence. Within a decade, Al Ca…pone will command the most powerful criminal organization in American history - not through brutality alone, but through political strategy, corporate discipline, and an instinct for power that the city's legitimate institutions could not match and would not honestly confront.The Chicago Beer Wars is not a gangster story. It is a history of a system - of a great American city whose political culture was already corrupted before Capone arrived, of a constitutional amendment that created the largest illegal market in the nation's history, and of the man who understood both facts more clearly than almost anyone around him. Rico Bruno traces the full arc of Capone's rise and fall: from the Brooklyn streets and the mentorship of Johnny Torrio, through the beer wars and the massacre that made his name synonymous with a decade, to the federal tax prosecution that finally brought him down - and the organization that outlasted him by half a century.What endures in this account is not myth but mechanism: how criminal power is actually built, how it purchases legitimacy, how it survives pressure, and why it is never truly defeated by the removal of any single man. Capone did not corrupt Chicago. He inherited its corruption and perfected it. That is the more disturbing story - and the more instructive one.Authoritative. Immersive. Unsettling in all the right ways. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Chicago, 1920. The Volstead Act has turned thirst into a black market, and the city's ancient corruption is ready to be organized. Into this moment steps a twenty-one-year-old from Brooklyn with a scar on his cheek, a gift for loyalty, and no hesitation about violence. Within a decade, Al Ca…pone will command the most powerful criminal organization in American history - not through brutality alone, but through political strategy, corporate discipline, and an instinct for power that the city's legitimate institutions could not match and would not honestly confront.The Chicago Beer Wars is not a gangster story. It is a history of a system - of a great American city whose political culture was already corrupted before Capone arrived, of a constitutional amendment that created the largest illegal market in the nation's history, and of the man who understood both facts more clearly than almost anyone around him. Rico Bruno traces the full arc of Capone's rise and fall: from the Brooklyn streets and the mentorship of Johnny Torrio, through the beer wars and the massacre that made his name synonymous with a decade, to the federal tax prosecution that finally brought him down - and the organization that outlasted him by half a century.What endures in this account is not myth but mechanism: how criminal power is actually built, how it purchases legitimacy, how it survives pressure, and why it is never truly defeated by the removal of any single man. Capone did not corrupt Chicago. He inherited its corruption and perfected it. That is the more disturbing story - and the more instructive one.Authoritative. Immersive. Unsettling in all the right ways. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
