From a National Book Award-winning biographer, the first complete life of legendary gangster Al Capone to be produced with the cooperation of his family, who provided the author with exclusive access to personal testimony and archival documents.
Deirdre Bairreceived the National Book Award forSamuel Beckett- A
Biography. Her biographies of Simone de Beauvoir and Carl Jung were
finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Simone de
Beauvoir biography was chosen byThe New York Timesas a Best Book of
the Year. Her biography of Anais Nin and her most recent book,Saul
Steinberg- A Biography,were bothNew York TimesNotable Books.
www.deirdrebairauthor.com
“An engaging biography that debunks many, many myths.” —San
Francisco Chronicle
“Offers a new history of Capone, and separates fact from fiction in
the process. . . . Bair’s Capone is powerfully human.”
—Smithsonian
“Compelling reading.” —Chicago Tribune
“Bair discovers a rich trove of legends. . . . [She] is a wise and
often iconoclastic guide through Capone mythology.” —The New York
Times Book Review
“Al Capone provides tremendous insight into the man who,
decades after his death, may be the best-known Chicagoan of all
time.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Dispel[s] many of the myths that have long swirled around Al
‘Scarface’ Capone.” —The New York Post
“[Bair] has succeeded in giving the real ‘Scarface’ the literary
legacy his life and story richly deserve.” —Houston Press
“An intimate, psychologically astute, and richly embroidered
biography of the most famous criminal in American history.” —Dick
Lehr, coauthor of Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a
Devil’s Deal
“Beautifully researched and immensely readable . . . Reveal[s] a
consistently surprising and exquisitely complex portrait of the man
behind the legend.”
—Karen Abbott, author of Sin in the Second City: Madams,
Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul
“A complete and engrossing picture of Capone’s life and times.”
—Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia
Family and screenwriter
of Goodfellas and Casino
“Enticing . . . knocks it out of the park. In the hands of a master
life-storyteller, Al Capone’s brief, explosive career seems as
all-American as apple pie and sawed-off shotguns.” —Marion Meade,
author of Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in
the Twenties
“A definitive biography of 'Public Enemy #1’. . . . Bair has
written perhaps the last word on Capone. Highly recommended.”
—Library Journal
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