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The Outfit : the role of Chicago's underworld in the shaping of modern America / Gus Russo.
Van Pelt Library HV6452.I32 O877 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Russo, Gus.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Outfit (Organization)--History.
- Outfit (Organization).
- History.
- Mafia--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Mafia.
- Chicago (Ill.)--History.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Chicago (Ill.)--Politics and government.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 550 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2001.
- Summary:
- With extensive research including recently released FBI files, a veteran journalist explores the Outfit, the secretive organized crime cartel that began its reign in prohibition-era Chicago before becoming the real puppet master of Hollywood, Las Vegas, and Washington, D.C. Photo insert.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [513]-522) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1582341761
- OCLC:
- 48620357
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