WGN Radio: Sunday Papers with Rick Kogan
Jonathan Eig discusses Get Capone with Rick Kogan. Click to listen to the podcast.
NPR: What You Didn’t Know About Gangster Al Capone
In Get Capone, writer Jonathan Eig takes us back to the roaring ’20s in Chicago, when cops and judges were on the take — and unsolved murders piled up by the dozens every year.
Eig’s new book chronicles the rise and fall of legendary gangster Al Capone. It’s based on newly acquired documents and interviews with some of Capone’s descendants. The book reveals a lot about Capone — how freely he spoke to reporters of his exploits, the time he shot himself in the groin, how little Eliot Ness had to do with putting him away, and how venereal disease eventually robbed him of his health and sanity.
NY Post: How Al Capone Was Untouchable
When Al Capone left Brooklyn, he was a 21-year-old nothing. When he turned 28, by then living in Chicago, he was one of the world’s most famous men, his face as recognizable as that of Babe Ruth or Lucky Lindbergh, his name a synonym for “gangster” in languages all over the earth.
Jonathan Eig Discusses Get Capone on the Daily Show
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Chicagoist Podcast: Get Capone
Chicagoist talks to Jonathan Eig about his iPhone app exploring Chicago’s gangland history as well as his new book.
Chicago magazine: The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre—Excerpt from “Get Capone”
Since February 14, 1929, when seven men were gunned down inside a Clark Street garage, the mastermind behind the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre has remained a mystery, though suspicions usually point to Al Capone. Now a new biographer has uncovered fresh information implicating a different suspect—a forgotten Chicago felon with a simple and timeless motive: revenge.
NY Times: Capone’s Legacy Endures, to Chicago’s Dismay
Though Chicago’s government tries to put its sordid gangster past behind it, demand for tours and tales of the Windy City’s dark underbelly seem to be growing.
Wall Street Journal: Becoming Al Capone: The First Excerpt
First came the roar of an engine and then a burst of fire from a Thompson submachine gun. The explosion lasted about five seconds, time enough for the Tommy to discharge more than one hundred rounds. Three men dove for cover. Three more dropped to the sidewalk, blood pouring like spilled paint from their bodies. Three fedoras and a set of horn-rimmed glasses tumbled to the sidewalk.
Reuters: Chicago police dust off murder linked to Al Capone
Jonathan Eig spoke before a Chicago commission about reopening an investigation into the murder of Edward J. O’Hare, a lawyer turned informant for the IRS as they were building a case against Capone.
O’Hare’s “contribution to the investigation of Al Capone ought to be put in proper perspective and that without his cooperation there never would have been a case against Capone,” said Chicago Alderman Edward Burke.
Check out more coverage at the Chicago Tribune and ABC News.
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