Al Capone

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Born in Brooklyn, New York in January 1899, Alphonse Gabriel Capone would go on to become perhaps the most infamous gangster in American history. During the Roaring Twenties, Al Capone ruled an empire of crime in the Windy City of Chicago: gambling, prostitution, bootlegging, bribery, narcotics, robbery, and many brutal acts of violence.

Jonathan Eig is a journalist, author and biographer dubbed by Ken Burns as a “master storyteller.” Jonathan joins Dan on the podcast to discuss Capone’s transition from young entrepreneur to notorious criminal, how the escalating Mob violence in Chicago culminated with the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre and the events which led to the end of his crime boss reign.

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0:40.0	Alphonse Capone. Finally, we get to Al Capone. Born in Brooklyn, the son of recent Italian immigrants in 1899.
0:50.0	By the time he was a teenager, he was getting in trouble. In his 20s, he would go on to become one of the most famous and recognizable celebrities, really, in America.
0:58.0	Gangster, who did not hide his nefarious activities, but boasted of them.
1:04.0	It was come a the hour, come a the man. He was perfectly placed as a petty mobster when the US government banned alcohol.
1:12.0	That drove one of the most lucrative industries in the country, underground, and him and his buddies were there to exploit it.
1:18.0	It is an astonishing story. And I've got one of the best telling us about it. Johnson Eyge, he was described by Ken Burns as a master storyteller.
1:26.0	Let me tell you, that's good enough for me. If Ken Burns is up to me, I was writing at CV, I write CV, Dan Snow, master storyteller of Ken Burns, end of CV, boom.
1:36.0	Email it to anyone who wants it. So, well done, Johnson Eyge for that. He's written three New York Times bestselling books.
1:42.0	He's an absolute legend. He's based in Chicago, so he's walking the mean streets, the alcohol and water. And he's ideally placed to talk to us all about this gangster.
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2:46.0	Jonathan, thank you very much for coming on the podcast.
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