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The Purple Gang: Detroit's Mafia and the Bloodiest Battle for Prohibition's Deadliest River (True Crime History for Sleep)
Detroit, 1920s: a city separated from a legal Canadian whiskey supply by half a mile of river. For thirteen years, that narrow crossing called the Windsor-Detroit Funnel carried an estimated 75% of all the illegal liquor smuggled into the United States. And running it wasn't the Italian-American families most people picture when they think of Prohibition. It was the Purple Gang: a loose, ferociously violent syndicate of Jewish-American sons of Russian immigrants, many still in their teens, who rose out of a Detroit neighborhood called Little Jerusalem to control liquor, gambling, and…
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