Uncle Al Capone - The Untold Story from Inside His Family - Softcover

Capone, Deirdre Marie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982845103 ISBN 13: 9780982845103

Publisher: Recaplodge LLC, 2010

Synopsis

This is the revised edition, March 2015. The untold story from inside his family. Dramatic, unyielding, and provocative, Uncle Al Capone by Deirdre Marie Capone, Al Capone's grandniece, is a fascinating memoir and engaging biography. This moving, highly readable portrait of the Capone family and its mob trade examines what it has meant to survive the storied legacy of the family's forbearers. As Capone traces the arc of regret and what fuels the Capone myth, she finds redemption and a way to coexist with her legacy. In seventeen chapters with titles like "The Making of the Mafioso," "Trading the Chicago Outfit for the Chicago Cubs," and "The Saint Valentine's Day Truth," Capone outlines organized crime in Chicago and offers vignettes of American history during the early and mid-twentieth century. Using years of research and exhaustive interviews with her aunts, uncles, and cousins, she weaves an engaging anecdotal narrative of what it meant to be a Capone, what it meant to lose her father to suicide, and what it meant to have a mother who lived in constant fear. She offers compelling evidence that Al Capone was specifically targeted for prosecution by law enforcement agencies assisted by the media, which made gross exaggerations of her uncle's exploits and fueled a phenomenon of half-truths and utter falsehoods. From the family's roots in Angri, Italy to the author's ongoing investigations today, this debut offers a comprehensive and moving portrait of an iconic American family and one woman's efforts to make peace with the past.

About this title

About the Author

I am a Capone. My grandfather was Ralph Capone listed in 1930 as Public Enemy #1 by the Chicago Crime Commission. That makes me the Grand Niece of his partner and younger brother, Public Enemy #1, Al Capone.
I was recently on  the Today Show. Follow this link to view it. bing.com/videos/watch/video/meet-the-real-al-capone/6ize2nx

From the Back Cover

For much of my life, this was not information that I readily volunteered, in fact, I made every effort to hide the fact that I was a Capone, a name that had brought endless heartache to so many members of my family. In 1972, when I was in my early thirties, I left Chicago and my family history far behind me, reinventing myself in Minnesota and making sure that no one in my life other than my husband Bob knew my ancestry. I succeeded...--an excerpt from Uncle Al Capone.

From the Inside Flap

For Deirdre Capone there came a time to confess to her children, grandchildren and even herself that, yes, they were members of the storied Capone crime family. From her ancestral roots in Angri, Italy to the family's move to Brooklyn and later Chicago, Deirdre Marie Capone offers the portriat of an American family and her favorite Uncle, endlessly depicted as the iconic mastermind behind some of the century's most brutal killings.

Edition details

• Publisher: Recaplodge LLC
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0982845103
• ISBN 13: 9780982845103
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232