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By: Max Blomquist The book “Eliot Ness: the Rise and Fall of an American Hero” is a biography about a man who, with help of several others, took down Al Capone, one the most well known gangsters in America. Eliot Ness was a very serious and dedicated man, especially when it came to his job at the Bureau of Prohibition. He took this job very seriously and made it his life to enforce prohibition on any and all citizens. In his life he was the golden boy of the Bureau but he died a nobody. Without the headlines he was making every week the public quickly forgot about his large part in taking down the most well known criminals of the twenties. It wasn’t until he and Oscar Fraley worked together on his book “The Untouchables” that people started remembering his legacy. The book he wrote was largely exaggerated but that didn’t stop the public from taking a large notice to it. The Eighteenth Amendment prohibiting the sale and transportation of alcohol in the United States impowered criminals like Al Capone to take advantage of the American people. While doing so he gained power, money, and notoriety. Prohibition affected the lives of thousands ranging from alcohol related violence to death from drinking unregulated alcohol. In today’s society, after repealing the Eighteenth Amendment, we haven’t seen a criminal rise to such power and authority as Al Capone did.
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Jesse Martin
4/28/2018 04:31:56 pm
I agree with your connection on how the mafia has to do with the 8th ammendment
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Jesse Martin
4/28/2018 04:33:52 pm
I agree with your connection on how the mafia has to do with the 8th amendment and how it is not allowing the sale of alcohol accept for modern days when it got repealed.
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yasine souissi
4/29/2018 08:47:52 am
this is a very interesting topic but how does it relate to the society we live in today
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Max Blomquist
4/30/2018 07:35:46 am
@yasine i clearly stated that in todays society that we live in there is no modern gangsters as powerful and strong as Al Capone
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