Jonathan Eig on Al Capone

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Uploaded by on Dec 5, 2010

Jonathan Eig, author of the book "Get Capone", reflected on his work during an interview at Chautauqua Institution in August 2010.

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  • Read the book, why don't you? The possibility that William White may have arranged the shooting as retribution for the accidental killing of his cousin during a botched robbery by the idiot Gusenberg brothers (of the Bugs Moran gang) makes a lot more sense than the facile theory of "Capone is a bad guy, so everything that went wrong in Chicago back then must have been his fault."

    And: Mr. Eig merely said Capone was "not as bad a guy as people made him out to be", i.e. not a psychopath.

  • Not responsible for the massacre????? Ha! What a bloody fool you are! You're just making a buck plain and simple. Not such a bad guy?? Too bad he didn't have someone killed in your family. Trust me your take on that bum would be very different.

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