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    Al Capone: Chicago's King of Crime

    By Nate Hendley

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    Crime writer Nate Hendley examines the life and crimes of Al Capone, the world’s most famous gangster, during his brief reign over corrupt, Prohibition-era Chicago. A fresh, personal look at this iconic figure.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFive Rivers Publishing
    Release dateJun 21, 2010
    ISBN9780986642319
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    Al Capone: Chicago's King of Crime
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    Nate Hendley

    Nate Hendley is a journalist and author of several books, primarily on crime-related subjects. His book, The Beatle Bandit (about a murderous 1964 bank heist) won the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence for Non-Fiction 2022. He lives in Toronto.

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    • 5/5
      "AL CAPONE" BY NATE HENDLEYI have always been somewhat fascinated by the mob life. This book read as a documentary in part and was extremely informative. I have always heard about Al Capone and read other historical articles about him but this book went above and beyond.It was fluidly written and a quick and easy read. Anyone interested in learning more about the infamous Al Capone should definitely pick up this book!-Kitty Bullard / Great Minds Think Aloud Book Club
    • 5/5
      "AL CAPONE" BY NATE HENDLEYI have always been somewhat fascinated by the mob life. This book read as a documentary in part and was extremely informative. I have always heard about Al Capone and read other historical articles about him but this book went above and beyond.It was fluidly written and a quick and easy read. Anyone interested in learning more about the infamous Al Capone should definitely pick up this book!-Kitty Bullard / Great Minds Think Aloud Book Club
    • 3/5
      While not a huge fan of nonfiction, I do normally enjoy a good true crime novel so I requested this book when it was made available on a free give-away. The information about Al Capone's life and crimes that is presented in this novel seems to be very thoroughly researched and accurately presented. My problems with this book is that is about all that I got out of it...information. A successful true crime book to me presents the reader with accurate information about the subject, but do so in a way that is engaging and entertaining; weaving a story instead of just presenting information. This is where this book fails in my opinion. I got a lot of information about Al Capone, but I was pretty bored most of the time while reading it.
    • 4/5
      This book was a very quick read and I liked the fact that there was a lot of information in there that I had no idea about Al Capone. The author certainly did his homework in the history of Al Capone and growing up in Brooklyn, his rise to a mobster in Chicago, and his troubles with Elliot Ness. It blew me away that Capone suffered from Syphilis and this is essentially what killed him. I won this book thru Library Thing.
    • 3/5
      While I found the information within this book interesting, the writing, for me, was dry and somewhat dull. The book reads like a factual timeline, stating only the facts without any insight or life to the words. I felt like I was reading a long newspaper article.