The Man Who Got Away: The Bugs Moran Story: A Biography Contributor(s): Keefe, Rose (Author) |
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ISBN: 1581824432 ISBN-13: 9781581824438 Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing OUR PRICE: $30.59 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2005 Annotation: A critical and investigative biography of Buggs Moran. Author uses recently discovered information in this book to present a new view of Moran. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Criminals & Outlaws |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2005005378 |
Physical Information: 1.37" H x 6.08" W x 9.26" (1.70 lbs) 400 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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Publisher Description: George Bugs Moran was the last of Chicago's spectacular North Side gang leaders, a colorful and violent dynasty that began with Dean O'Banion in 1920. In The Man That Got Away, author Rose Keefe provides the first in-depth look at the enigmatic gangster's charmed and wacky life from his Minnesota childhood to his early years as a horse thief. She chronicles his two marriages, his rise and fall in Chicago's Prohibition-era underworld, his life as an independent outlaw in the 1930s and '40s, and his last days in Leavenworth Penitentiary. In the process of telling Moran's story, some of the twentieth century's most fascinating and bewildering gangland figures are revisited: Al Capone, Johnny Torrio, Dean O'Banion, Vincent the Schemer Drucci, Earl Hymie Weiss, showboating Chicago Mayor Big Bill Thompson, the gang-hating but oddly pro-Moran Judge John H. Lyle, Virgil Summers, and Albert Fouts. History did not record the details of Moran's Last confession, but the public record and Rose Keefe's interviews with Moran's former associates now allow us to form an educated guess. |