The Wicked City: Chicago From Kenna To Capone
Author:   Curt Johnson ,  R.Craig Sautter ,  Roger Ebert
Publisher:   Hachette Books
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9780306808210


Pages:   406
Publication Date:   22 March 1998
Format:   Paperback
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The Wicked City is an account of Chicago's vice, crime, capitalism, and corruption from Pierre the Mole, who sold whiskey to the Indians, through Jonny Torrio and Al Capone, who bootlegged a Great Lake's worth of booze during the Roaring Twenties. Chicago's drive for wealth and power in this fifty-year span are evoked through the spirited accounts of the careers of its leading tycoons,such as Charles Yerkes, Marshall Field, George Pullman, and Big Bill Thompson,and its leading gangsters: the Terrible Gennas, Jim Colosino, Dion O'Banion, Diamond Joe Esposito, Johnny Torrio, and Al Capone. The Chicago portrayed here is raw, real, and vital its raucousness, lawlessness, ebullience, and greed become poetic.

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Author:   Curt Johnson ,  R.Craig Sautter ,  Roger Ebert
Publisher:   Hachette Books
Imprint:   Da Capo Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.471kg
ISBN:  

9780306808210


ISBN 10:   0306808218
Pages:   406
Publication Date:   22 March 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

I. * Titan * Why Not? * Dynasts * The Builders * Guappo * Silk Stockings * Brother Theo * Sisters * Ruffiano * Kid Blackie * Nobodys Fool II. * Hard Guys * Succession * Compares * Politicos * The Wheaton Ice Man * Hes Irish, Hit Him Again! * Arrivederci * The Privileged III. * Capone * Reasonable Fellows * Zenith * Swan Songs * Four-Square * The Last Good Year * Perfida * The Last Good Year * Satchmo * The First Really Bad Year * Power * A Soldier Dead * Hunger * Nadir * Time and Chance * Child of the Romans

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Curt Johnson has published five novels and over sixty short stories, including selections of the O. Henry Prize Stories and Best American Short Stories. In addition, he has edited four anthologies of fiction and published four books of nonfiction. He lives in Chicago.

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