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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...