Al Capone, one of the best-known Italian-American gangster, was a child of a struggling Italian immigrant family from the village of Castellmarre di Stabia, sixteen miles south of Naples. Capone took "the feudal Italian criminal society and fashioning it into a modern American criminal enterprise"(Bardsley). He was the "single greatest symbol of the collapse of law and order in the United States during the 1920's"("Al Capone"). There where a few major points in …showed first 75 words of 1127 total…

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