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Al Capone: The Iconic Gangster of the Roaring Twenties. This paper discusses how Capone was simultaneously a gangster and a hero of sorts. Though his public fortunes waxed and waned, he was, for a considerable time, held up as a swashbuckling type of hero as he did battle with the conservative forces who had robbed the populace of one its favorite pastimes, drinking. He was rich and successful in a raucously defiant way--much like the gunmen of the wild west-- and this endeared him to public of the 1920's. 5 pgs. 11 f/c. 8b.
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