Condemnation — The Story of an Azorean Gangster in America
In the 1920s, the United States of America implements Prohibition. In Al Capone's shadow, gangs proliferate that dominate the trafficking of distilled beverages and that seek new blood to recruit.
Coming from an Azorean community in Massachusetts that produces aguardente in illegal stills, young Salvador Silver will learn the rigid laws of delinquency with the rogue Arthur Trato and will get involved with the Morellis, a mafia family. Later, he will commit serious crimes that place him alongside the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, who would be famously tried and sentenced to the electric chair. However, was it Salvador Silver who was truly responsible for the crimes that led to the end of the lives of those two Italians?
In this story based on facts documented by the American press of the time, the author Pedro Almeida Maia brings to light the path of an uncounted Portuguese man, who was, for a century, overshadowed by the media coverage of one of the most studied cases in the American courts.
Publisher: Culture
ISBN: 9789895774043
Binding: capa mole
Pages: 328
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