Get Capone Audiobook by Jonathan Eig

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/27/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Get Capone Subtitle: The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster Author: Jonathan Eig Narrator: Dick Hill Format: Unabridged Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins Language: English Release date: 04-30-10 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 152 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Criminals Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed journalist and best-selling author Jonathan Eig blows the lid off the Al Capone story. Based on never-before-seen government documents and newly discovered letters written by Al Capone himself, Get Capone presents America's greatest gangster as youve never seen him before. In addition to IRS files, Eig got hold of the personal papers of the U.S. attorney in Chicago who prosecuted Capone. He even found family members who would share stories about their notorious relative. The author, a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, brings his uncompromising standards for research and his superb knack for storytelling to one of the most thrilling stories in American history. This eye-opening biography reveals that Capone was the target of one of the most intense criminal investigations in American history - with orders coming directly from the White House. Capone flaunted his criminal success so openly that President Hoover insisted the gangster be stopped. And, despite his many misdeeds, Capone may have been the victim of a rigged trial. Get Capone also offers a bold new theory to explain the Valentine's Day Massacre and sheds new light on Capone's connection - or lack thereof - to the crime. Editorial Reviews: Get Capone by Jonathan Eig, an atmospheric biography of the iconic gangster is subtitled, somewhat misleadingly, The Secret Plot to Get Americas Most Wanted Gangster. The books true focus is not the endgame of Capones criminal saga, but the glory days of his career in Prohibition Chicago. Narrator Dick Hill sounds like a Chicago wise guy who saw the whole thing unfolding from a corner bar; his flat accent and hearty delivery convey Capone and companys style and swagger. Eig charts the kingpins rise, beginning with his 1923 arrival from Brooklyn, following mentor Johnny Torrid, but he and Hill are in no rush. There are countless stops to smell the coffee or Mama Capones cooking. (Eigs description of the matriarch making braciole, the Italian beef dish, is reason enough to whip some up.) In depicting the characters in Capones world, from rival Diamond Jim (James Colosimo) to club doorman, we are likely to be told the shape of ones facial features, the color of anothers tie. Hill, like a veteran of the jaded city to a tourist, relates the backdrop of Chicago politics and the post-WWI Roaring Twenties hedonism that Prohibition sought to temper but only stoked. He is at his best when he robustly gives us Capone in the gangsters words. We are able to perceive, beyond his brute acumen in bootlegging and mob management, Capones mastery of the media that made him an international celebrity, the inspiration for countless Hollywood movies, and the archetypal gangster you hate to love. Extolling family values and the pleasure of an innocent glass of beer, hed tell the press, Im just a businessmanAll l do is satisfy a public demand. Hill conveys, by playing it straight, the irony in Capones statements praising those honest judges and prosecutors out to get him in contrast to the myriad officials he is able to bribe or threaten. Federal and local authorities finally succeed in putting Capone away for tax evasion. But by the time of his release, Eig shows us graphically the advance of syphilis that would kill him at age 48 has set in.