{"title":"Rose Keefe","description":"\u003cp\u003eROSE KEEFE is a researcher and historian specializing in vintage American true crime and the author of three books on early American gangsters. Her recent books include \u003cem\u003eThe Starker: Big Jack Zelig, the Becker-Rosenthal Case, and the Advent of the Jewish Gangster\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Man Who Got Away: The Bugs Moran Story\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eGuns and Roses: The Untold Story of Dean O'Banion, Chicago’s Big Shot Before Al Capone\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeefe has been consulted as an expert on America’s criminal history by the History Channel and LucasFilm. Her books draw on primary sources including police and court records, FBI files, and interviews with surviving relatives and descendants of her subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRose lives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRose Keefe’s books are published by Cumberland House Publishing, an imprint of Turner Publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse more: \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/books-new-releases\"\u003eNew Releases\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/award-winning-books\"\u003eAward-Winning Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-man-who-got-away","title":"The Man Who Got Away: The Bugs Moran Story","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge \"Bugs\" Moran was the last of Chicago's spectacular North Side gang leaders, a colorful and violent dynasty that began with Dean O'Banion in 1920. In \u003cem\u003eThe Man That Got Away, \u003c\/em\u003eauthor Rose Keefe provides the first in-depth look at the enigmatic gangster's charmed and wacky life from his Minnesota childhood to his early years as a horse thief. She chronicles his two marriages, his rise and fall in Chicago's Prohibition-era underworld, his life as an independent outlaw in the 1930s and '40s, and his last days in Leavenworth Penitentiary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the process of telling Moran's story, some of the twentieth century's most fascinating and bewildering gangland figures are revisited: Al Capone, Johnny Torrio, Dean O'Banion, Vincent \"the Schemer\" Drucci, Earl \"Hymie\" Weiss, showboating Chicago Mayor \"Big Bill\" Thompson, the gang-hating but oddly pro-Moran Judge John H. Lyle, Virgil Summers, and Albert Fouts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHistory did not record the details of Moran's Last confession, but the public record and Rose Keefe's interviews with Moran's former associates now allow us to form an educated guess.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eWe earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1581824432\/ref=nosim?tag=tpcecomm-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Amazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003c!-- bookshop-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/book\/9781581824438\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Bookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/bookshop-buylink --\u003e","brand":"Rose Keefe","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43233323057368,"sku":"9781581824438","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/7786\/8475\/files\/9781581824438_FChigh_mockup_v2_1738780558_fc9aa1f3-de5f-40e3-af15-94ec00b8ded0.jpg?v=1791023127"},{"product_id":"the-starker","title":"The Starker: Big Jack Zelig, the Becker-Rosenthal Case, and the Advent of the Jewish Gangster","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eSelig Harry Lefkowitz, alias Big Jack Zelig, was New York's first great gangster boss. Like many of his pre-Volstead contemporaries, his historic impact has been overshadowed by Al Capone and Murder Inc. He is listed in today's crime anthologies primarily because four members of the gang, along with corrupt cop Charles Becker, died in the electric chair for the July 1912 murder of gambler Herman Rosenthal. In New York City from 1908 to 1912, however, Zelig inspired admiration and fear, and he was synonymous with the word 'gangster.'\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eNew York editor Herbert Bayard Swope recalled that \u003cem\u003eThe Starker\u003c\/em\u003e (Yiddish for 'Big Boss'), \"threw terror into the heart of the New York underworld like no one has before or since.\" Based on dozens of interviews and years of painstaking research, \u003cem\u003eThe Starker\u003c\/em\u003e introduces readers to a story from New York's criminal past that is dazzling in its audacity and criminal in the success of the people responsible for the murders in covering up their own crimes.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eWe earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1581826028\/ref=nosim?tag=tpcecomm-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Amazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003c!-- bookshop-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/book\/9781581826029\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Bookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/bookshop-buylink --\u003e","brand":"Rose Keefe","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43236420714712,"sku":"9781581826029","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/7786\/8475\/files\/9781581826029_FChigh_mockup_v2_1738775180_cf81f994-b363-48cc-b196-646d594fb4a4.jpg?v=1791024896"}],"url":"https:\/\/turnerpublishing.com\/collections\/author-rose-keefe.oembed","provider":"Turner Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}