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Books & Videos About Gangsters
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"The Business of Crime: Italians and Syndicate Crime In The United States" [1976] by Humbert S. Nelli Univ Chicago Press 8¼x5½ pb [4/81] for $29.00 Oxford Univ Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [8/76] out of print/used |
 | "The Mafia Encyclopedia" [orig 1987; 3rd edition 2005] by Carl Sifakis Checkmark 11x8½ pb [6/2005] for $14.93 Checkmark 11¼x8½ hardcover [6/2005] for $65.00 |
 | "Mafia: The History of The Mob In America" miniseries [A&E 1993]
A&E Home Video VHS [4/2001] 4 tapes for $13.49 A&E Home Video DVD [4/2001] 2 disks - out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb |
 | "Inventing The Public Enemy: The Gangster In American Culture, 1918-1934" [1996] by David E. Ruth Univ Chicago Press 9x6 pb [4/96] for $20.00 Univ Chicago Press hardcover [4/96] for $47.50 |
 | "Lords of The Mafia" 6-episode miniseries [PBS May 2000] Co-produced, co-written & directed by Dan Goldman Koch Vision color DVD [6/2003] out of prodn/used Koch Vision VHS box set [9/2001] 7 tapes - out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb |
 | "The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld In The Shaping of Modern America" [2002] by Gus Russo Bloomsbury USA 8.4x5½ pb [4/2003] for $13.97 Bloomsbury USA 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2002] for $24.50 |
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"Gangland International: The Mafia & Other Mobs" [2002] by James Morton Little, Brown pb [8/2002] for $9.95 |
 | "Mobsters and Gangsters: Organized Crime In America From Al Capone To Tony Soprano" [2002] Edited by Life Magazine
TimeLife 11¼x9¼ hardcover 11/2002] for $13.97 |
 | "When The Mob Ran Vegas: Stories of Money, Mayhem & Murder" [2005] by Steve Fischer Berkline Press 9x6 pb [7/2005] for $13.57 |
 | "Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires" [2005] by Selwyn Raab Journalist Raab examines the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese crime families from their Sicilian origins to their decline in the 1980s and 1990s to the present, concluding that the F.B.I.'s post-9/11 concentration on external threats has allowed the Mafia to expand once more. Kindle Edition from Thomas Dunne Books [4/2010] for $9.99 St. Martin's Griffin 9¼x6¼ pb [9/2006] for $13.17 Thomas Dunne Books 9½x5¾ hardcover [8/2005] out of print/used |
 | "Mobsters, Unions and Feds: The Mafia & The American Labor Movement" [2006] by James B. Jacobs NY Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [1/2006] for $20.76 |
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"Prohibition On The North Jersey Shore: Gangsters On Vacation" [2010] by Matthew R. Linderoth The History Press 8¾x6 pb [12/2010] for $14.99 |
The Bad Guys
Bonnie & Clyde
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker [1910-1934]
Clyde Chestnut (or Champion) Barrow [1909-1934]
joint page at Wikipedia
Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde [] by Jeff Guinn
"Bonnie & Clyde" movie [1967] starring Faye Dunaway & Warren Beatty
"Bonnie and Clyde" [Sony TV/Lifetime 2013?]
Announced 9/2012: Lifetime and the History Channel and producers Craig Zadan & Neil Meron are planning a new four-hour "Bonnie and Clyde" biopic
miniseries; Miley Cyrus declined the starring role; added 4/2013: filming in Baton Rouge, Louisiana area; directed by Bruce Beresford; Holliday Grainger
is Bonnie, Emile Hirsch is Clyde, William Hurt Hurt is Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, Holly Hunter is Bonnie's mother latest info at IMDb
Al Capone [1899-1947]
MG's online 'Al Capone Museum'
Capone webpages at Dark Horse Crime Library
Al Capone entry at Wikipedia
Mickey Cohen & Jack Dragna
 | "The King of The Sunset Strip: Hangin' With Mickey Cohen & The Hollywood Mob" [2006] by Steve Stevens & Craig Lockwood Cumberland House 9x6½ pb [4/2006] for $16.47 |
Spirit of America Bookstore's
John Dillinger [1903-34] Page
Charles 'Lucky' Luciano [1897-1962]
Owney Madden [1891-1965]
entry at Wikipedia
 | "Hot Springs: A Novel [2000] by Stephen Hunter The tale of 'Owney Maddox', the former New York City mobster who opened the Hotel Arkansas in Hot Springs in 1935. After World War II, an ambitious county prosecutor asks for the help of war hero Earl Swagger in bringing Maddox and corrupt local officials to justice. Pocket mass pb [5/2001] for $7.99 S&S 9½x6½ hardcover [6/2000] out of print/many, many used |
Frank Nitti [1886-1943]
Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel [1906-1947]
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"Bugsy" [Baltimore/TriStar Dec 1991]
Directed by Barry Levinson; starring Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould, Joe Mantegna & Richard C. Sarafian; nominated for 10 Oscars including Best Picture, won for Best Art Direction, Best Costumes Columbia/TriStar widescreen DVD [5/2001] for $13.46 Columbia/TriStar VHS [5/2001] for $9.95 full credits from IMDb 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99 |
 | real-life Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel portrait 22"x34" poster no longer available at AllPosters.com |
The Good Guys
free online episodes of "Gangbusters" radio program
"Gangbusters" radio program [1935-57] 65 episodes on CD
Eliot Ness & The Untouchables
Federal agent Elliott Ness assembled a team to battle Chicago gang boss Al Capone.
Eliot Ness [1903-57] entry at Wikipedia
"The Untouchables" [1929-31] entry at Wikipedia
 | "The Untouchables" [Messner 1957] by Elliott Ness, with Oscar Fraley Pocket pb [5/93] out of print/used Amereon hardcover [6/76] for $21.95 Buccaneer 9x6 hardcover [2/96] for $27.95 |
 | "The Scarface Mob" 2-part pilot for the TV series [Desilu April 1959] Paramount b&w VHS [4/86] out of prodn.used full credits from IMDb Starring Robert Stack as Eliot Ness, Bruce Gordon as Frank Nitti, |
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"Untouchables" TV series [Desilu; 118 1-hour episodes 1959-63]
full credits from IMDb episode details at epguides.com Season 1, Volume 1 (pilot + 14 episodes): Paramount b&w DVD set [4/2007] 4 disks for $9.98 Season 1, Volume 2 (14 episodes): Paramount b&w DVD set [9/2007] 4 disks for $26.39 Complete Season 1 (29 episodes): Paramount b&w DVD set [9/2007] 8 disks for $34.92 Season 2, Volume 1 (16 episodes): Paramount b&w DVD set [3/2008] 4 disks for $28.49 Season 2, Volume 2 (16 episodes): Paramount b&w DVD set [8/2008] 4 disks for $27.99 Season 3, Volume 1 (16 episodes): Paramount b&w DVD set [8/2009] 4 disks for $29.99 Season 3, Volume 2 (12 episodes): Paramount b&w DVD set [11/2009] 4 disks for $22.99 Season 4, Volume 1 (15 episodes): Paramount b&w DVD set [7/2012] 4 disks for $21.80 Season 4, Volume 2 (15 episodes): Paramount b&w DVD set [7/2012] 4 disks for $25.90 Complete Series on DVD: Paramount b&w DVD set [7/2012] 31 disks for $166.61 |
"The Untouchables" feature film [Paramount June 1987]
  | Directed by Brian De Palma; starring Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Robert De Niro & Billy Drago
Paramount widescreen color Blu-ray [6/2008] for $14.49 Paramount widescreen color DVD [8/2002] for $9.73 Paramount color VHS [12/92] for $1.88 {sic} A&M Records soundtrack CD [10/90] for $9.54 full credits from IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia 11"x17" poster {blue, at left} from Amazon for $9.99 watch 1987 official trailer [2:36] at YouTube |
"The Untouchables" video game [1991]
Super Nintendo video game [1991] out of stock/used
full credits from IMDb
"The Return of Elliott Ness" ['reunion movie' 90-min special Nov 1991]
Unapix color video out of prodn/used
full credits from IMDb
"The New Untouchables" tv series [1993-94] starring Tom Amendes as Ness
video/DVD not available
full credits from IMDb
episode details at epguides.com
 | "Eliot Ness and The Untouchables: The Historical Reality and The Film & Television Depictions" [2000] by Kenneth Tucker McFarland & Co. pb [7/2000] for $32.00 |
 | "The Real Untouchables: Eliot Ness" [2001] 3-part documentary that "examines Eliot Ness, Melvin Purvis & Thomas Dewey, three real-life heroes who battled organized crime between the two world wars" Directed by John Fothergill; written by Steve Longmuir; narrated by James Woods; featuring Bob Kaliebe, Dominic Capone, Tom Clarke Hill, Douglas Weidner, Michael Dailey, Todd Milliner & David Viggiano Goldhil VHS [10/2001] for $8.21 full credits at IMDb |
 | "The True Story of The Untouchables" [History Channel special 2002] A&E Home Video [5/2002] for $9.98 |
"The Untouchables: Capone Rising" 
[Paramount; delayed to 2012, in development 2015]
 | A prequel to the 1987 DePalma "Untouchables" film; Chicago police detective Malone battles minor gangster Capone by pushing the Irish mob against the Italian mob, ending with the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
Directed by Brian De Palma latest info from IMDb |
"Ness/Capone" [Relativity Media 2012, in development 2015]
hot script by Grant Pierce Myers that made the 2010 Black List of best unproduced screenplays
latest info from IMDb
Melvin Purvis of The F.B.I.
Melvin Horace Purvis, Jr. [1903-60] entry at Wikipedia
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"The Vendetta: Special Agent Melvin Purvis, John Dillinger, and Hoover's F.B.I. In The Age of Gangsters" [2005] by Alston Purvis & Alex Tresniowski
PublicAffairs 8x5½ pb [5/2009] for $11.30 hardcover [10/2005] out of print/100+ used |
J. Edgar Hoover & The F.B.I.
J. Edgar Hoover [1895-1972] entry at Wikipedia
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"The F.B.I.: Inside The World's Most Powerful Law Enforcement Agency" [1993] by Ronald Kessler Pocket pb [10/94] for $6.99 Pocket 9½x6½ hardcover [10/93] out of print/used Blackstone UNABR audio [8/97] 15 tapes for $95.95 |
 | "The Bureau: The Secret History of The F.B.I." [2002] by Ronald Kessler listed in 'L.A. Times 100 Best Books of 2002' St Martin 10x6 hardcover [5/2002] out of print/many used |
 | "The F.B.I.: A History" [2007] by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Yale Univ Press 9x6½ hardcover [9/2007] for $20.08 |
 | "Killers of The Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and The Birth of The F.B.I." [2017] by David Grann When oil was discovered on the Osage Indian Reservation in Oklahoma, the new millionaires used their wealth to build mansions and buy luxury cars and send their children to school in Europe. Then the newly-wealthy Native Americans began getting bumped off in mysterious ways. As the death toll climbed to more than twenty-four, the F.B.I. took up the case; it was one of their first major homicide investigations and they badly bungled the case. In desperation, young director J. Edgar Hoover turned to former Texas Ranger Tom White to unravel the mystery. Kindle Edition from Doubleday [4/2017] for $14.99 Random House 9¼x6 pb [4/2017] for $11.94 Doubleday 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2017] for $17.37 'Osage Indian Murders' entry at Wikipedia |
"J. Edgar" [Malpaso/Imagine Nov 2011]
Co-produced & directed by Clint Eastwood; script by Dustin Lance Black; starring Leonardo DiCaprio {as
F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover} DVD/Blu-ray not yet available
latest info at IMDb
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