The Wicked City: Chicago from Kenna to Capone Paperback - 1998
by Curt Johnson
"The Wicked City" presents an account of Chicago's vice, crime, capitalism, and corruption from Pierre the Mole, who sold whiskey to the Indians, through Johnny Torrio and Al Capone, who bootlegged a Great Lake's worth of booze during the Roaring Twenties. 36 illustrations.
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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 Johnny 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 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 almost poetic.
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- Title The Wicked City: Chicago from Kenna to Capone
- Author Curt Johnson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 406
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Da Capo Press, Reading, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-03-22
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780306808210 / 0306808218
- Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 8.87 x 5.84 x 0.99 in (22.53 x 14.83 x 2.51 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: Midwest
- Cultural Region: Upper Midwest
- Geographic Orientation: Illinois
- Locality: Chicago, Illinois
- Library of Congress subjects Chicago (Ill.) - History, Chicago (Ill.) - Biography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97036196
- Dewey Decimal Code 977.311
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