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title: "Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend Hardcover – Deckle Edge, October 25, 2016"
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# Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend Hardcover – Deckle Edge, October 25, 2016

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## Customer Reviews

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    Works of Crime, Love and Life
  

*by T***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 25, 2016*

This new Deirdre Bair book, excellently written as we come to expect from this seasoned author, will be the cause of letters of complaints. Again there are nights without sleep ahead, since her writing on Al Capone in all its facets is so elegantly alluring, sagaciously seductive and impossible to put down, even when ones eyelids react to sleepiness. Well, let the left sleep while the right reads on and vice versa. I am through once and already back to Al’s early Brooklyn days. Being ranked up by his crime and living style mentor Johnny Torrio to take the ladder up to the top charge of Chicago’s Outfit business, I feel the latter to be guilty of serious behindology. It was he, relaxing in Brooklyn still, who suggested to Capone (p.188) to use his personal tax lawyer, L.P. Mattingly, who’s actions were in a very large way responsible,  for Al Capone’s final fall down. Maybe Torrio did want to get rid of his general, as Al did pull most of the strings in Chicago. As a 30 year old street wise come-hither, who trusted his idol nearly blindly, not to bother, as Bair finely writes, about looking more careful into the tax evasion issue, which Mattingly so unprofessionally mixed up in Al’s unfavour. This good intentioned path finally led to years in prison in Alcatraz The atrocious bad treatment of his illness syphilis, reduced his life shorter than need be. Bair’s writing is so grand; I can be in the story for hours, without realising, that I am reading this life. She writes on four levels: Family history as truly recovered as can be (she is the first biographer, invited by the family to have inner access); Crime history of the USA and Chicago in particular; Trial story and history of the law, including alcohol prohibition; and finally a dense and enlightening metalogue, to them loose ends.  With a beautiful language, this prolific writer, succinctly depicts family experience and immigration, puts a description of the horrific crime activities and delivers a tremendous analysis of her findings from within the family and the social cultural legends round Al. Finally The Legacy Chapter, is densely illuminating, about the various intricacies, which she had to deal with, while researching this seventh book of hers. She weaves this tapestry of family relationships - true, fancied and hilariously lied about - into a coherent whole. Once again, Deirdre Bair has shown us what a formidable writer artist she is, and the fact that Nan A. Talese publishes this championed writer, is like a knighthood she deserves.Theodor Itten: Psychotherapist, Sankt Gallen Switzerland

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    An Emphasis on Al Capone and His Family
  

*by B***M on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 5, 2016*

My first thought when I saw this book was what is this one going to say about Al Capone that several others have not.  This is not a biography of Al Capone's life with an emphasis on crime.  If you're looking for added information about the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the rub out of Dean O'Banion or numerous others you won't find it in this book.  One exception I noted was the attempt by Albert Anselmi, John Scalise, and  "The Dancing Torpedo" himself namely Joseph "Hop Toad" Guinta and their attempt to turn on Capone and take over his empire.  I have previously read that this pre-murder "party" was held in a roadhouse near Hammond, Indiana, while author Bair states that it may have taken place at the Hawthorne Hotel in Cicero.Instead author Deirdre Bair has dealt primarily with the private life of Al Capone with an emphasis son his relationship with numerous other members of his his family such as his mother Teresa, wife Mae, his son Sonny, sister Mafalda, Ralph and son Ralphie, and other siblings.  Emphasis is placed on how this devoted family man and friend of the downtrodden could be such a murderous thug.Finally the author places a lot of emphasis on Capone's final years when his body and brain were wracked by syphilis causing him to have the mentality of a seven to fourteen year old.  The author states the grave marker of the Capone family is hidden by bushes.  It was previously but a few years ago the bushes were removed with the name prominently displayed.The book contains eight pages of photographs several of which I have never seen previously.

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    A great read
  

*by M***C on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 29, 2022*

A written book about one of Americas must notorious outlaws; highly suggest it.

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