This interview was originally broadcast on Aug. 9, 2010. 'Get Capone' is now available in paperback. In Get Capone, writer Jonathan Eig takes us back to the roaring '20s in Chicago, when cops and ...
The very able author Jonathan Eig, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, who has written books on baseball legends Jackie Robinson and Lou Gehrig , has now written about another type of legend, and a ...
Own Al Capone: The Chicago gangster’s favorite gun, diamond jewelry, bear-shaped humidor, family photos and more to be sold by his granddaughters at auction ...
Jan. 25 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1533, Henry VIII of England secretly married Anne Boleyn, his second wife. In 1858, Mendelssohn's "The Wedding March" was played at the marriage of ...
In many ways, the entire gangster genre in film and even literature has Al Capone to thank for its existence. While there isn't anything else to thank Al Capone for, his public image, antics and flair ...
The McSwiggin murder was the kind of story that editors once thought sold newspapers. The Tribune laid out the initial facts in a front-page story on April 28, 1926: “William H. McSwiggin, youthful ...
He noted that he is "setting records" for his historic indictments. Trump has previously compared his legal troubles to the infamous mobster's. Former President Donald Trump joked that he had been ...
Al Capone charts the rise of the legendary American gangster in a theatrical biopic complete with live music, running at ...
Jonathan Eig's book Get Capone reveals new insights about the famous Chicago gangster — including how freely he spoke to reporters, the time he... The Rise And Fall Of Gangster Al Capone This ...
Jan. 25 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1533, Henry VIII of England secretly married Anne Boleyn, his second wife. In 1858, Mendelssohn's "The Wedding March" was played at the marriage of ...