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Formato
Copertina rigida
Lingua
Tedesco
Pubblicato
Jan 1, 1996
Editore
Herbig
ISBN-10
3776619678
ISBN-13
9783776619676
Descrizione
Rich in detail, profuse in anecdote...a lost world of violence, greed and corruption - Ruth Rendell, THE TELEGRAPH
This book hurtles along like a Philip Marlowe detective novel...it is beautifully written, a real work of literature. Bergreen evokes the roaring twenties, makes you smell the sleaze and recoil from the noise of gunfire in language that makes you dizzy and breathless. - YORKSHIRE EVENING PRESS
AL CAPONE was a poor farm boy from an immigrant slum who created a bootlegging and racketeering empire that spread from New York to the western states. Flashy, amiable, ruthless, his reputation, even in his own lifetimes, became bloated with myths and pseudo-facts. In this brilliantly researched biography, Laurence Bergreen strips away the legend to reveal the real man. He portrays an era driven by greed, thirst and the ruthless pursuit of pleasure, dominated by the image of the man who symbolized it all - Al Capone.
A fascinating study of American society and culture...lays bare the origins of the drug-fuelled festival of crime. Highly readable, it charts the transformation of the American dream into the American nightmare, and the assessment of this grim period in US history feels remarkably fresh - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
Fine revisionist biography which peels away the myths that have for so long concealed the real Capone - MAIL ON SUNDAY
Engrossing, highly-spiced, persuasive and very well written...a big, bold effort, full to the brim with outsoze personalities and riveting in its account of the cocial histiry of the time... - Vincent Banville, IRISH TIMES
This book hurtles along like a Philip Marlowe detective novel...it is beautifully written, a real work of literature. Bergreen evokes the roaring twenties, makes you smell the sleaze and recoil from the noise of gunfire in language that makes you dizzy and breathless. - YORKSHIRE EVENING PRESS
AL CAPONE was a poor farm boy from an immigrant slum who created a bootlegging and racketeering empire that spread from New York to the western states. Flashy, amiable, ruthless, his reputation, even in his own lifetimes, became bloated with myths and pseudo-facts. In this brilliantly researched biography, Laurence Bergreen strips away the legend to reveal the real man. He portrays an era driven by greed, thirst and the ruthless pursuit of pleasure, dominated by the image of the man who symbolized it all - Al Capone.
A fascinating study of American society and culture...lays bare the origins of the drug-fuelled festival of crime. Highly readable, it charts the transformation of the American dream into the American nightmare, and the assessment of this grim period in US history feels remarkably fresh - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
Fine revisionist biography which peels away the myths that have for so long concealed the real Capone - MAIL ON SUNDAY
Engrossing, highly-spiced, persuasive and very well written...a big, bold effort, full to the brim with outsoze personalities and riveting in its account of the cocial histiry of the time... - Vincent Banville, IRISH TIMES
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