LINCOLN'S COUNTERFEITERS: The Wisconsin Gang That Funded the Union and Started the Chicago Mob
To finance the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln turned to the nation's leading counterfeiters, including a band of enterprising criminals based in Monroe, Wisconsin. The Bonelatta Gang worked alongside the Kentucky Colony, which formed Chicago's corrupt Democratic Machine and nurtured the Levee Lords all the way down to Al Capone. Well illus.
Format: Paperbound
Pages: 188
Publisher: History Press
Publishing status: Current
ISBN: 9781467157087
Item #: 9256474