Analysis Of John Kobler's Capone

General society called him Scarface; the FBI called him Public Enemy Number One; his partners called him Snorky. Yet, Capone is the name generally recall. Furthermore, John Kobler's Capone is the authoritative history of this most fierce and ostentatious of the underground lords—a private and emotional book that introduces a complete perspective of Al Capone and his pompous time. Here is Capone's story: his savage youth in Brooklyn, his lieutenancy to Johnny Torrio, his ascent in the positions of the underworld, the famous St. Valentine Massacre, his inevitable control of the whole city of Chicago, and his decrease amid his detainment in Alcatraz. Capone was a definitive hoodlum, and Capone is a definitive in criminal life stories—a great in