Frank Nitti: The True Story of Chicago's Notorious "Enforcer"
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Frank Nitti: The True Story of Chicago's Notorious "Enforcer"

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Frank The Enforcer Nitti is arguably the most glamorized gangster in history. He was an infamous Chicago wiseguy who eventually rose to command the city's premier underworld organization—The Outfit. Though he has been widely mentioned in fictional works, this is the first book to document Nitti's real-life criminal career alongside his pop culture persona, with special cha

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Hardcover, 399 pages
Published March 25th 2008 by Barricade Books
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J.C.
10/7/09 Well I gave it my best shot but couldn't pull it off. So tedious, so lame. Even the interesting moments (few and far between as they were) had no suspense, no entertainment. Reading a For Dummies book on the Mafia might have been more satisfying.

There are tangents about random individuals or events in every chapter that, though seemingly important, really in the end don't make a difference one way or the other.

Forget any sort of narrative. It is a mere coll...more
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