How the Mob Actually Lived

The real history of America's gangsters, from Prohibition Chicago to the last of the old Mafia bosses, without the Hollywood gloss.

The movies gave you violin cases, tommy guns on every corner and bosses who never had a bad day. The truth is stranger. Al Capone handed out business cards saying he sold second-hand furniture. The St. Valentine's Day killers left their victims' cash on the garage floor. And a gangster shot 14 times told police, "Nobody shot me."

Here you'll find what mobsters actually carried, ate, earned and spent, the rules they lived by, the hitmen even the bosses feared, the cops and politicians they bought, and how it all ended. Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, the Chicago Outfit, the Five Families and the forgotten names in between.

Every script is written from scratch and checked fact by fact against historical sources. When the movies got it wrong, we'll show you what really happened.

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