Roaring Twenties: Organized Crime

Profiles famous cases solved by forensic firearm identification; including the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and the 2002 sniper attacks in Washington, D.C.; and explores the career of a firearm examiner.

Presents a biography of Al Capone, tracing the life of the infamous prohibition-era criminal from his youth in New York to his death at the age of forty-eight from complications of syphilis, and including a look at corruption in American society, a time line, and a bibliography.

Traces the history of the secretive organized crime cartel that began its reign in prohibition-era Chicago and went on to influence all of America's organized crime operations and impact almost every aspect of American history and society.

A fierce, larger-than-life depiction of the mob warlord who ruled Prohibition-era Chicago and the law enforcer who vowed to bring him down.

Examines what daily life was like for ordinary people in the U. S. in the 1920s and the 1930s, discussing the impact of automobiles, electricity, radio, cinema, conflict and crime, the standardization of culture, the Great Depression, and the New Deal on the lives of American citizens.

Contains approximately 160 primary sources on American history and culture from 1920 to 1929, featuring many different types of sources, arranged chronologically in twelve categories, including the arts, education, government and politics, media, medicine and health, religion, and sports.

Contains narrative essays and primary documents that provide information on political, social, military, moral, and cultural conflicts in American history from 1920 to 1945, and includes biographical profiles, a chronology, maps, and illustrations.

Examines the history of the United States from the Great War to the stock market crash of 1929 through biographical accounts of sixty Americans who had an influence on events of the period, each with portraits, photographs, and related primary documents.

Presents a collection of entries that provide information on the 1920s in the U.S., including the political, economic, technological, and social events during the decade, and provides full and excerpted documents that offer a range of perspectives the period. Includes sidebar boxes and illustrations.

It began with the best of intentions. Worried about the effects of alcohol on American families, mothers and civic leaders started a movement to outlaw drinking in public places. Over time, their protests, petitions, and activism paid off—when a Constitional Amendment banning the sale and consumption of alcohol was ratified, it was hailed as the end of public drunkenness, alcoholism, and a host of other social ills related to booze. Instead, it began a decade of lawlessness, whenchildren smuggled (and drank) illegal alcohol, the most upright citizens casually broke the law, and a host of notorious gangsters entered the public eye. Filled with period art and photographs, anecdotes, and portraits of unique characters from the era, this fascinating book looks at the rise and fall of the disastrous social experiment known as Prohibition.