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The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago’s Jewish Gangsters Audiobook, by Joe Kraus Play Audiobook Sample

The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago’s Jewish Gangsters Audiobook

The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago’s Jewish Gangsters Audiobook, by Joe Kraus Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Peter Berkrot Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 4.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.50 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: October 2019 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781094051291

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

47

Longest Chapter Length:

16:33 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

02:08 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

09:04 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

The Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago’s Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers, and conflicts of Benjamin “Zukie the Bookie” Zuckerman, last of the independent West Side Jewish bosses, and Lenny Patrick, eventual head of the Syndicate’s “Jewish wing.”

These two men linked the early Jewish gangsters of the neighborhoods of Maxwell Street and Lawndale to the notorious Chicago Outfit that emerged from Al Capone’s criminal confederation. Focusing on the murder of Zuckerman by Patrick, Kraus introduces us to the different models of organized crime they represented, a raft of largely forgotten Jewish gangsters, and the changing nature of Chicago’s political corruption. Hard-to-believe anecdotes of corrupt politicians, seasoned killers, and in-over-their-heads criminal operators spotlight the magnitude and importance of Jewish gangsters to the story of Windy City mob rule.

With an eye for the dramatic, The Kosher Capones takes us deep inside a hidden society and offers glimpses of the men who ran the Jewish criminal community in Chicago for more than sixty years.

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“An engaging story about the history of Jewish gangsters in Chicago.”

— Elizabeth Dale, author of The Chicago Trunk Murder

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About Joe Kraus

Joe Kraus is Chair of the Department of English and Theatre at the University of Scranton. He is coauthor of An Accidental Anarchist, and his scholarly and creative work has appeared widely. He lives in Shavertown, Pennsylvania, with his wife and three sons.

About Peter Berkrot

Peter Berkrot, winner of Audie and Earphones Awards for narration, is a stage, screen, and television actor and acting coach. He has narrated over 450 works that span a range of genres, including fiction, nonfiction, thriller, and children’s titles. His audiobook credits include works of Alan Glynn, Eric Van Lustbader, Nora Roberts and Dean Koontz. In film and television, he appeared in Caddyshack, America’s Most Wanted, and Unsolved Mysteries. He performs in regional and New York theaters and directs the New Voices acting school.