Gunmen and Gangsters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gunmen and Gangsters write by Michael Schlossheimer. This book was released on 2018-08-03. Gunmen and Gangsters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gangsters such as Al Capone and Lucky Luciano were considered by many people to be the most exciting personalities of the 1920s and 1930s. The public was hungry for press coverage about these mysterious and dangerous men. Most reports about them were sketchy, as the reporters did not want to get on the bad side of the racket bosses. Hollywood's response to the public's fascination was to portray the lives of gangsters on the movie screen, using actors such as Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, and Edward G. Robinson. Perhaps surprisingly, these men received not-so-favorable reviews from the Academy Award voters, and as their popularity grew with the public, censorship dictated other actors be brought in to play the roles. That's what this book is about--the personal and professional lives of William Bendix, Charles Bickford, Ward Bond, Broderick Crawford, Brian Donlevy, Paul Douglas, William Gargan, Barton MacLane, and Lloyd Nolan, second-string actors who replaced the big names and did a memorable job. A filmography is supplied for each actor.
Gangsters and Gunmen
Gangsters and Gunmen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gangsters and Gunmen write by Ray Black. This book was released on 2004-03-04. Gangsters and Gunmen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of Gangland crime throughout the world featuring, prohibition, gambling, vice, drugs and above all, murder.
Guns and Roses
Guns and Roses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guns and Roses write by Rose Keefe. This book was released on 2003-09-01. Guns and Roses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on information compiled from police and court documents, contemporary news accounts, and interviews with O'Banion's friends and associates, Guns and Roses traces O'Banion's rise from Illinois farm boy to the most powerful gang boss ...
Shooters
Shooters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shooters write by Ben Black. This book was released on 2012-05-01. Shooters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The last days of the 20th Century saw a major crackdown on Manchester's warring gangs. But soon new groups emerged, with names like the Young Gooch Crew, the Moss Side Bloods, the Old Trafford Crips, the Longsight Street Soldiers and the Fallowfield Mad Dogs. Younger and even more violent than their predecessors, they baited their rivals with explicit grime tracks and internet videos and unleashed a wave of bloodshed. SHOOTERS tells the story of these gangs and their various alliances, feuds and crimes. Using detailed court testimony and inside accounts, it gives a rare insight into the lethal conflict between the Pitt Bulls and the Longsight Crew; tells how two underworld armourers dubbed Bobby the Gun and the Merchant of Death supplied the gunmen with reactivated weapons; chronicles the infamous bloodbath at the Brass Handles pub in Salford, when two would-be assassins were themselves executed; and reveals the inner workings of the drug-dealing L$$ posse. It also recounts the story of Gooch leaders Colin Joyce and Stephen Amos, whose arrest for murder led to one of Britain’s biggest-ever trials; pieces together the events behind the notorious killings of teenagers such as Jessie James, Giuseppe Gregory and Louis Brathwaite; examines the methods of the audacious armed robbers of Salford; and describes the rise of lethal Asian gangs and their influence in the neighbouring towns of Bolton and Oldham. SHOOTERS is a powerful account of one city’s ongoing struggle with the law of the gun.
Inventing the Public Enemy
Inventing the Public Enemy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inventing the Public Enemy write by David E. Ruth. This book was released on 1996-04-15. Inventing the Public Enemy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this richly detailed account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone and other "invented" gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. The subject of innumerable newspaper and magazine articles, scores of novels, and hundreds of Hollywood movies, the gangster was a compelling figure for Americans preoccupied with crime and the social turmoil it symbolized. Ruth shows that the media gangster was less a reflection of reality than a projection created from Americans' values, concerns, and ideas about what would sell. We see efficient criminal executives demonstrating the multifarious uses of organization; dapper, big-spending gangsters highlighting the promises and perils of the emerging consumer society; and gunmen and molls guiding an uncertain public through the shifting terrain of modern gender roles. In this fascinating study, Ruth reveals how the public enemy provides a far-ranging critique of modern culture.
