Largely forgotten now, Frankie Yale was an early 20th century New York mobster whose protégés included future leaders of New York's five Mafia families and Chicago's outfit. In Chicago, he committed two of the city's most notorious underworld assassinations and waged a five-year war to wrest control of Brooklyn's docks from Irish rivals. His murder marked New York City's first gangland use of a Tommy gun, used again in Chicago's St. Valentine's Day massacre seven months later. Yale's passing destabilized Gotham's Mafia, paving the way for an upheaval that restructured American syndicated crime for the next six decades. This is the first biography to survey his life and career.
Largely forgotten now, Frankie Yale was an early 20th century New York mobster whose protégés included future leaders of New York's five Mafia families and Chicago's outfit. In Chicago, he committed two of the city's most notorious underworld assassinations and waged a five-year war to wrest control of Brooklyn's docks from Irish rivals. His murder marked New York City's first gangland use of a Tommy gun, used again in Chicago's St. Valentine's Day massacre seven months later. Yale's passing destabilized Gotham's Mafia, paving the way for an upheaval that restructured American syndicated crime for the next six decades. This is the first biography to survey his life and career.
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