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The Law That Built the Mob: How Prohibition Handed America to Gangsters
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When the Volstead Act banned alcohol in 1920, it didn't end drinking — it handed a vast, unregulated market to Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and a generation of organised crime bosses who grew rich enough to fund a presidential campaign. This is the chapter that explains how Prohibition built the modern American mob.
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Here's the question that sits at the center of this story. How did some of the most successful criminals in American history end up writing checks to a presidential campaign?
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