Description: Visit our eBay store to see more signed keepsakes & sports memorabilia—Autograph Attic: https://www.ebay.com/str/autographattic Al Capone and the 1933 World’s Fair (by William Elliott Hazelgrove)Rowman & Littlefield2017 First Edition, First Printing Hardcover 9 ¼ inches height x 6 ¼ inches width 261 pages Signed— William Elliott Hazelgrove signed the title page with a blue pen. All items are hand-signed; we never sell copies or reproductions of any kind. From AmazonAl Capone and the 1933 World’s Fair: The End of the Gangster Era in Chicago is a historical look at Chicago during the darkest days of the Great Depression. The story of Chicago fighting the hold that organized crime had on the city to be able to put on The 1933 World's Fair. William Hazelgrove provides the exciting and sprawling history behind the 1933 World's Fair, the last of the golden age. He reveals the story of the six millionaire businessmen, dubbed The Secret Six, who beat Al Capone at his own game, ending the gangster era as prohibition was repealed. The story of an intriguing woman, Sally Rand, who embodied the World's Fair with her own rags to riches story and brought sex into the open. The story of Rufus and Charles Dawes who gave the fair a theme and then found financing in the worst economic times the country had ever experienced. The story of the most corrupt mayor of Chicago, William Thompson, who owed his election to Al Capone; and the mayor who followed him, Anton Cermak, who was murdered months before the fair opened by an assassin many said was hired by Al Capone. But most of all it’s the story about a city fighting for survival in the darkest of times; and a shining light of hope called A Century of Progress. Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend (by Deirdre Bair) Doubleday 2016 First Edition, Second Printing Hardcover 9 ¼ inches height x 6 ¼ inches width 395 pages Not Signed—nice companion piece to the signed copy of Al Capone and the 1933 World’s FairAll items are hand-signed; we never sell copies or reproductions of any kind. From AmazonAt the height of Prohibition, Al Capone loomed large as Public Enemy Number One: his multimillion-dollar Chicago Outfit dominated organized crime, and law enforcement was powerless to stop him. But then came the fall: a legal noose tightened by the FBI, a conviction on tax evasion, a stint in Alcatraz. After his release, he returned to his family in Miami a much diminished man, living quietly until the ravages of his neurosyphilis took their final toll. Our shared fascination with Capone endures in countless novels and movies, but the man behind the legend has remained a mystery. Now, through rigorous research and exclusive access to Capone’s family, National Book Award–winning biographer Deirdre Bair cuts through the mythology, uncovering a complex character who was flawed and cruel but also capable of nobility. At once intimate and iconoclastic, Al Capone gives us the definitive account of a quintessentially American figure.
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Inscribed: Yes
Type: Gangster Era in Chicago
Features: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Personalized: No
Age Level: Adults
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Modified Item: Yes
Country: USA
Original/Reproduction: Original
Object Type: Book
Intended Audience: Adults
Signed: Yes
Signed By: William Elliott Hazelgrove
Era: 1930s
Book Title: Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair : the End of the Gangster Era in Chicago
Item Length: 9.3in.
Item Height: 1in.
Item Width: 6.3in.
Author: William Elliott Hazelgrove
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, IL, In, Ks, MI, MN, MO, North Dakota, Ne, OH, Sd, Wi), Marketing / General, United States / 20th Century, United States / 19th Century, General, Organized Crime, Sociology / Urban
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2017
Genre: True Crime, Business & Economics, History, Social Science
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
