Al Capone All-American: Torrio vs Colosimo

In this, the second episode of Outfit’s limited series "Al Capone All-American," Dan and Alana learn how the young Scarface, now on the cusp of adulthood, found himself drifting westward toward the city of destiny: Chicago. Under the influence of two underworld mentors with competing philosophies, who will Al Capone align himself with as Prohibition rears its head?

Sources

Historian Mario Gomes's excellent website, My Al Capone Museum (https://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/)

Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend by Deirdre Bair

Al Capone’s Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition by John Binder

The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America by Gus Russo

Gangland Chicago: Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City by Richard C. Lindberg

Prohibition Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation by Marc Mappen

The Wicked City: Chicago From Kenna to Capone by Curt Johnson with R. Craig Sautter

Mr. Capone: The Real - and Complete - Story of Al Capone, by Robert J. Schoenberg

Young Al Capone: The Untold Story of Scarface in New York, 1899-1925 by William and John Balsamo

Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone by John Kobler

Capone: The Man and the Era by Laurence Bergreen

Newspapers including The Brooklyn Daily Times, The New York Daily News, The New York Times, The New York Herald, The Chicago Daily News, The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Record-Herald, The Chicago Sun-Times.

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Executive Produced by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson

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Production Assistance by Franchesca Diaz and CJ Archerd

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