Al Capone and His American Boys: Memoirs of a Mobster's Wife - Softcover

Helmer, William J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253009693 ISBN 13: 9780253009692

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2012

Synopsis

When her husband was murdered on the orders of Chicago mobster Frank Nitti, Georgette Winkeler―wife of one of Al Capone's "American Boys"―set out to expose the Chicago Syndicate. After an attempt to publish her story was squelched by the mob, she offered it to the FBI in the mistaken belief that they had the authority to strike at the racketeers who had killed her husband Gus. Discovered 60 years later in FBI files, the manuscript describes the couple’s life on the run, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre (Gus was one of the shooters), and other headline crimes of that period. Prepared for publication by mob expert William J. Helmer, Al Capone and His American Boys is a compelling contemporary account of the heyday of Chicago crime by a woman who found herself married to the mob.

About this title

Book Description:

Silver Medal, True Crime category, 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards2012 AAUP Public and Secondary School Library Selection

About the Author:

William J. Helmer is author (with G. Russell Girardin) of Dillinger: The Untold Story (IUP, 1994) and The Gun That Made the Twenties Roar as well as other books on the gangland era.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0253009693
• ISBN 13: 9780253009692
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400