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This is the book’s own stage: Al Capone — from the frontispiece photograph of Pasley’s own book — stands on the stage, while Pasley’s 1930 biography is read aloud in Ryan’s voice: the empire at its height, the killing of Jake Lingle and its fallout, the Florida exile, and Pasley’s own ending, with Capone waiting, watching, wondering — and the labeled witnesses, Landesco and the era’s photographic record, speak in Alan’s voice, apart from the spine. The bookstore barcode rides every frame — scan any moment to come back to this bookstore.
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What’s Inside
- Pasley’s biography, Parts Five–Seven complete: Al Capone: The Biography of a Self-Made Man (1930) — the reign completed: the empire at its height, the killing of Jake Lingle, the Florida exile, and the story left “unfinished, like his life.”
- About 5 hours 12 minutes of narration — Ryan reads the spine aloud in English, page by page, in a reading room you can follow with your eyes, while Capone’s portrait stands on the stage; the labeled witnesses are read in Alan’s voice.
- The witnesses stand labeled — John Landesco of the Illinois Crime Survey on Torrio the overlord and on the rule of the underworld itself, and the era’s photographic record (Chicago Gang Wars in Pictures, 1930) on the Massacre’s aftermath. Pasley ends in 1930, at Capone’s height; the fall that followed belongs to the federal record, and no word of it has been slipped into a dead man’s mouth.
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These are the public-domain texts: Fred D. Pasley’s Al Capone (1930), John Landesco’s Organized Crime in Chicago (1929), and Chicago Gang Wars in Pictures (1930), presented as a talking hologram book. Every copy opens with an honest disclaimer that prints this book’s margin on its face: this house’s rule is to take an author’s words only when he has been dead a hundred years — Fred Pasley died in 1951, seventy-five years ago — and this one book proceeds on the copyright door, the 1930 biography being public domain in the United States by publication year. The narration is a synthesized English reading (Piper — Ryan, with Alan for the labeled witnesses) of these texts, made for this edition. Editor: Franklin Langston.
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