The real Al Capone. From Brooklyn kid to Chicago crime boss, a new biography gives the whole story. This Jan. 19, 1931, file photo shows Chicago mobster Al Capone at a football game. (AP File) The ...

Go into any souvenir store on a touristy Chicago street and behold the man: Al Capone. His visage will adorn T-shirts, refrigerator magnets, coffee cups and countless tacky tchotchkes people buy to ...

Meet the author of a new book that looks at the private life of the notorious criminal. National Book Award winner Deidre Bair has written the first complete biography of Al Capone, with exclusive ...

Deirdre Bair is know for writing about artists and intellectuals, having earned a National Book Award for her biography of Samuel Beckett. So Bair’s publisher thought she was crazy when the author ...

Alphonse Gabriel Capone, sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the ...

National Book Award-winning biographer Bair (Samuel Beckett) interrogates the notion of the “real” Al Capone (1899–1947). Capone’s life has been well documented in countless books, articles, and ...

CHICAGO – In the pantheon of Chicago crime fighters, nobody has the worldwide reputation of Eliot Ness. He’s the Prohibition agent who brought down Al Capone, the principled lawman in a city awash in ...

In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed ...

Notorious mobster Al Capone was a larger than life bootlegger, racketeer, killer and organized crime boss in the first half of the 20th century, who has been portrayed on big-screen and small for ...

This program originally broadcast on October 27, 2016. The real Al Capone. From Brooklyn kid to Chicago crime boss, a new biography gives the whole story. This Jan. 19, 1931, file photo shows Chicago ...

In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed ...