- Published: 15 November 2017
- ISBN: 9780345804518
- Imprint: Knopf US
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 416
- RRP: $39.99
Al Capone
His Life, Legacy, and Legend
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- Published: 15 November 2017
- ISBN: 9780345804518
- Imprint: Knopf US
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 416
- RRP: $39.99
"Bair discovers a rich trove of legends.... [She] is a wise and often iconoclastic guide through Capone mythology." --The New York Times Book Review "Compelling reading." --Chicago Tribune "An engaging biography that debunks many, many myths about Capone and captures him as a complex person, devoted to his parents, his wife, his siblings and his son; popular at times with the masses; clever and charismatic; and, at the same time, a monster whom authorities 'held responsible for everything but the Chicago fire.'" --San Francisco Chronicle "Al Capone provides tremendous insight into the man who, decades after his death, may be the best-known Chicagoan of all time." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Deirdre Bair offers a new history of Capone, and separates fact from fiction in the process ... Bair's Capone is powerfully human." --Smithsonian
"Bair discovers a rich trove of legends.... [She] is a wise and often iconoclastic guide through Capone mythology." --The New York Times Book Review "Compelling reading." --Chicago Tribune "An engaging biography that debunks many, many myths about Capone and captures him as a complex person, devoted to his parents, his wife, his siblings and his son; popular at times with the masses; clever and charismatic; and, at the same time, a monster whom authorities 'held responsible for everything but the Chicago fire.'" --San Francisco Chronicle "Al Capone provides tremendous insight into the man who, decades after his death, may be the best-known Chicagoan of all time." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Deirdre Bair offers a new history of Capone, and separates fact from fiction in the process ... Bair's Capone is powerfully human." --Smithsonian