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Organized Crime in the United States, 1865-1941 (Paperback)
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Organized Crime in the United States, 1865-1941 (Paperback)
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Looking at the accounts of the time, historian Kristofer Allerfeldt
provides a readable and informative analysis of how and why we
arrived at our present understanding of organized crime in the
Unites States. By going back to the original accounts of the events
that inform our understanding of much of the subject, this work
will question some of our most deeply held assumptions on crime and
its role in US society. In a series of thematic sections it will
examine how America alternately celebrated and condemned ambitious
gangsters and blood-thirsty hoodlums as well as equally ambitious
and corrupt law enforcers and politicians in this era of rapid
change. It will look at why we remember such figures as Al Capone,
but have largely forgotten his far more successful and innovative
precursor, Mike MacDonald. It will question why history has
condemned some public figures for connections with the mob, and yet
eulogized others who seem only to have covered their far muddier
tracks much better, or had the fortune to have commentators, then
and now, prove they paid off the right people.
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