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Cargando... Historic Photos of Chicago Crime: The Capone Era (Historic Photos)por John Russick
Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) Dr_Jim_Moshinskie | Sep 3, 2017 |  This book is an interesting look at the not so glamorous era of the Chicago crime era. Though some photos were obviously posed, most were taken while the subjects of them were unaware. I have enjoyed all of the books in the "Historic Photographs" series which I have read. They are easily accessible to the casual reader and also bring something new to the table of the professional historian. This is most especially true of "Historic Photos of Chicago Crime". At least in this instance, the old adage about "a picture being worth a 100 words" holds-up. ( ) ThothJ | Dec 4, 2015 | This book is an interesting look at the not so glamorous era of the Chicago crime era. Though some photos were obviously posed, most were taken while the subjects of them were unaware. I have enjoyed all of the books in the "Historic Photographs" series which I have read. They are easily accessible to the casual reader and also bring something new to the table of the professional historian. This is most especially true of "Historic Photos of Chicago Crime". At least in this instance, the old adage about "a picture being worth a 100 words" holds-up. ( ) ThothJ | Dec 3, 2015 | This book is an interesting look at the not so glamorous era of the Chicago crime era. Though some photos were obviously posed, most were taken while the subjects of them were unaware. I have enjoyed all of the books in the "Historic Photographs" series which I have read. They are easily accessible to the casual reader and also bring something new to the table of the professional historian. This is most especially true of "Historic Photos of Chicago Crime". At least in this instance, the old adage about "a picture being worth a 100 words" holds-up. ( ) ThothJ | Dec 3, 2015 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Perhaps no city has a more fabled past than Chicago, home of legendary Al Capone. But that fabled past is often portrayed separate from the surrounding web of social realities, without which no event, no period in time can be understood. Historic Photos of Chicago Crime: The Capone Era addresses this problem by opening with a compelling look at Chicago's cityscape to include a broad range of cultural phenomena--from suffrage to jazz--essential to the contextualization of crime in the 1920s and 1930s. The history then proceeds as its title suggests--to a riveting overview of crime in Chicago, chock-full of images documenting notorious gangsters and gruesome gangland wars. Al Capone, John Torrio, Earl "Hymie" Weiss, George "Bugs" Moran, and a host of others are all here. Replete with insightful captions and penetrating chapter introductions by historian John Russick, these photos offer a unique view into Chicago and its nefarious past. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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