A Bloody Business (Hard Case Crime): The Rise of Organized Crime in America

The real story, unvarnished and uncensored, of the Mob's rise to power during Prohibition.ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF PROHIBITION, LEARN WHAT REALLY HAPPENED. In 1919, the National Prohibition Act was passed, making it illegal across America to produce, distribute, or sell liquor.With this act, the U.S. Congress also created organized crime as we know it.Italian, Jewish, and Irish mobs sprang up to supply the suddenly illegal commodity to the millions of people still eager to drink it.Men like Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky, Dutch Schultz and Bugsy Siegel, Al Capone in Chicago and Nucky Johnson in Atlantic City, waged a brutal war for power in the streets and on the waterfronts.But if you think you already know this story...think again, since you've never seen it through the eyes of one of the mobsters who lived it. Called "one of the most significant organized crime figures in the United States" by the U.S.District Attorney, Vincent "Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo was just 15 years old when Pro