02650nam 22004933 450 991069857490332120210901203216.00-698-15145-3(CKB)3710000000547721(MiAaPQ)EBC6048121(Au-PeEL)EBL6048121(OCoLC)1156012909(OCoLC)45715193(BIP)049710999(EXLCZ)99371000000054772120210901d2014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEliot Ness The Rise and Fall of an American HeroEast Rutherford :Penguin Publishing Group,2014.©2014.1 online resource (463 pages)Title from title screen (viewed on July 23, 2008)."6/3/98"--Alphabetical listings.Redacted.Eliot Ness was born April 19, 1903 in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Ness was popularly credited with the downfall of Chicago organized crime czar Alphonse Capone. The FBI information concerns the relationship between Mr. Ness and the FBI while he served as Director of Public Safety in Cleveland, Ohio during the 1930's and other law enforcement positions he later held.0-14-312628-8 The story of Eliot Ness, the legendary lawman who led the Untouchables, took on Al Capone, and saved a citys soulAs leader of an unprecedented crime-busting squad, twenty-eight-year-old Eliot Ness won fame for taking on notorious mobster Al Capone. But the Untouchables daring raids were only the beginning of Nesss unlikely story.This new biography grapples with the charismatic lawmans complicated, largely forgotten legacy. Perry chronicles Nesss days in Chicago as well as his spectacular second act in Cleveland, where he achieved his greatest success: purging the profoundly corrupt city and forging new practices that changed police work across the country. He also faced one of his greatest challenges: a mysterious serial killer known as the Torso Murderer. Capturing the first complete portrait of the real Eliot Ness, Perry brings to life an unorthodox man who believed in the integrity of law and the power of American justice.DetectivesUnited StatesBiography & AutobiographyPolitical Science363.25092Perry Douglas1351507MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910698574903321Eliot Ness3114207UNINA