1st Edition
Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition Gotham and the Age of Recklessness, 1920–1933
By Francesco Landolfi
Copyright 2023
428 Pages
45 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
428 Pages
45 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
428 Pages
45 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book aims to highlight the causes why the Prohibition Era led to an evolution of the New York mob from a rural, ethnic and small-scale to an urban, American and wide-scale crime.
The temperance project, advocated by the WASP elite since the early nineteenth century, turned into prohibition only after the end of WWI with the enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment. By considering the success... Read more
Introduction
1. New York Between Alcohol and Prohibition (1784–1896)
2. Cops and Mobsters
3. Before the Eighteenth Amendment (1913–1919)
4. Years of Opposition (1920–1925)
5. Years of Carelessness (1926–1929)
6. The Lords of the Liquors
7. From Old Bandits to Modern Gangsters
8. Years of Crisis (1930–1933)
Conclusion
Biography
Francesco Landolfi holds a PhD in Historical Studies from the University of Florence, Italy. His research concerns the history of crime during the twentieth century, the rise of far-left/right terrorisms in Rome in the 1970s and the making of the Irish mob in Boston between the 1960s and 1990s.
