The Encyclopedia of Gangsters: A Worldwide Guide to Organized Crime
- ISBN-10
- 1568583486
- ISBN-13
- 9781568583488
- Category
- True Crime
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Running PressBook Pub
- Author
- Michael Newton
Description
A visual survey of the world's most notorious crime organizations and gangsters throughout history is chronologically and geographically arranged and includes coverage of such figures as Al Capone, Carlo Gambino, and John Gotti. Original.
Get the book
Similar books
-
The Mafia Encyclopedia
By Carl SifakisIn The Mafia Encyclopedia, Third Edition, Carl Sifakis once again provides a fascinating survey of the mob s most influential perpetrators and personalities, including their hangouts and hideaways, their plays for power, their schemes and ...
-
Encyclopedia of Gangs
By David Brotherton, Louis KontosExamines gangs throughout the United States in over eighty entries covering topics such as history, the wide range of communities where gangs form, and their increasingly complex lifestyle.
-
Gangsters Encylopedia: The World's Most Notorious Mobs, Gangs and Villains
By Michael Newton"The book is arranged in chapters geographically showing the history of organized crime in different territories around the world, the legendary figures, the famous heists and busts and the power these organizations still exert today"- ...
-
American Gangsters, Then and Now: An Encyclopedia
By Nate HendleyAmerican Gangsters, Then and Now tells the stories of a number of famous gangsters and gangs--Jesse James and Billy the Kid, the Black Hand, Al Capone, Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels, the Mafia, Crips and Bloods, and more.
-
Gangland: An Encyclopedia of Gang Life from Cradle to Grave [2 volumes]
By Laura L. FinleyRetrieved April 28, 2018, from http://people.com/archive/gang-violence-color-it-real-vol-29-no-17 Ebert, R. (1988, ... Two South Central Los Angeles high school students, Raymond Washington and Stanley Williams, formed what became the ...
-
World Encyclopedia Of Organized Crime
By Jay Robert NashBrilliantly catalogued by the dean of American true-crime writers, Jay Robert Nash, this volume profiles the notorious gangsters, crime families, cartels, and gangland events that have shaped world history.Here are gangs such as the Dead ...
-
Encyclopedia of Organized Crime in the United States: From Capone's Chicago to the New Urban Underworld
By Robert J. KellyTypically, other reference works on organized crime in the United States focus primarily on the Mafia and La Cosa Nostra, and neglect the many new ethnic and racial criminal organizations...
-
American Gangsters, Then and Now: An Encyclopedia
By Nate HendleyAmerican Gangsters, Then and Now tells the stories of a number of famous gangsters and gangs—Jesse James and Billy the Kid, the Black Hand, Al Capone, Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels, the Mafia, Crips and Bloods, and more.
-
Prohibition Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation
By Marc MappenMaking use of FBI and other government files, trial transcripts, and the latest scholarship, the book provides a lively narrative of shootouts, car chases, courtroom clashes, wire tapping, and rub-outs in the roaring 1920s, the Depression ...
-
Bullets for Dead Hoods: An Encyclopedia of Chicago Mobsters, C. 1933
By John CorbettIn addition to the full-color manuscript, Bullets for Dead Hoods includes related documentary material, an introduction by John Corbett, a compilation of more than 400 locations referenced in the manuscript, and a pull-out map of Chicago ...