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Mobsters and Gangsters: Organized Crime in America, from Al Capone to Tony Soprano | 
 enlarge | Author: Editors Of Life Magazine
Publisher: Life
Category: Book
Buy New: $53.59
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 782138
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 128
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 9.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 1929049846
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.1060973
EAN: 9781929049844
ASIN: 1929049846
Publication Date: November 13, 2002
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Product Description
Gangsters. The Mob. The Mafia. John Dillinger. Lucky Lucchese. Al Capone. The Untouchables. John Gotti. The Chin. Don Corleone. Tony Soprano. In real life, in literature, in movies and television, no saga has so gripped the American consciousness and imagination as gangsters and the war on crime. On the streets and on the big and small screens, the mob world has made for vivid pictures and unimaginable stories, and for nearly 70 years, LIFE has been there to chronicle all the action and mayhem. From the all-too-real Naked City photography of the legendary Weegee to the brilliant depictions of Francis Ford Coppola's films, the story of the Mafia will be revealed in this exciting, gripping book. Note the infamous photographs from inside the speakeasies, from inside the cells, from inside the government's investigations and from the backlots of productions ranging from Cagney's "Public Enemy" to HBO's "Sopranos". LIFE takes on the mafia and brings it to you in this stunning pictorial hardcover as no other publisher can.
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 I Love Mobster Stuff October 27, 2005
Cheryl Drefs (Sacramento, CA USA)
Even though I haven't read this book in it's entirety yet, I'm fascinated by it. I've always had a sick fascination with the mobster world. It's a thoroughly comprehensive book.
 A book of errors with pictures February 4, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I bought this book for a research project for school, and ended up having to redo my research. This book provides nice prohibition era photos and other such pictures, but the information is purely faulty. First off, when they were talking about Capone, they were totally off. Capone had a stand-in son who he took out in public, he never killed "thousands of people", and the St. Valentine's day massacre was headed by Jack McGurn, (not Jake), and involved 4 men (not 5). The rest of the magazine was the same. Also, i sensed a very biased few, they worshipped Eliot Ness and called Capone basically a brute. Maybe Life should have researched this a little before printing, eh?
 Fun to Browse November 10, 2002
Rick "Mad Dog" Mattix (Iowa)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
What we have here is a typical Time-Life pop-history book. Poorly researched, strewn with errors and superficial commentary but tons of great photos. The picture of the James gang is bogus, however. It's fun to look at but little more.
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