GET CAPONE
THE SECRET PLOT THAT CAPTURED AMERICA'S MOST WANTED GANGSTER
By Jonathan Eig
Simon & Schuster, $28
Al Capone, when he's thought of at all in Chicago these days, is reduced to caricature.
He's the mobster every tourist has heard of but knows little about, as they gawk out the windows of a gangster bus tour of the city. He's Robert De Niro, hair thinned back, belly bulging out, hammering the head of an underling with a Louisville slugger in "The Untouchables." He's the pathetic punch line of a Geraldo Rivera television special -- where the mobster's vaunted vault turns out to be full of nothing but junk.
Capone the cartoon is half …
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