Muscling In 1931 Fred D Pasley ~ chronicle of racketeering in Chicago & New York ~ organized crime ~ Al Capone ~ gangsters ~ Prohibition era
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Title: Muscling In
Author: Fred D. Pasley
Description: First Edition. Boards in black cloth with red lettering. Spine rolled; shows general handling and shelf-wear. Interior is unmarked; pages show some scattered soiling and dogears. 261 pages.
An detailed chronicle of Prohibition-era racketeering, corruption, and organized crime in Chicago and New York, primarily in the years 1929-1931.
The author, Fred D. Pasley (1883-1951), a well-known crime reporter in Chicago with The Herald-Examiner and The Tribune, was also the author of two other books: Al Capone: Biography of a Self-Made Man (1930) and Not guilty! The story of Samuel S. Leibowitz (1933). In 1931, he was hired by Howard Hughes to help write the screenplay for the Al Capone-inspired gangster film Scarface. In the early 1940s, he worked as a White House correspondent for The News (NYC), and in 1943 was elected secretary-treasurer of the White House Correspondents Association.
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None
Publisher: Ives Washburn
Place: [New York]
Year: 1931
Keywords: Prohibition, crime, organized crime, racketeering, history, Chicago, New York, gangsters, true crime, Al Capone, Wickersham Commission,
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