Al Capone’s name has become synonymous with Prohibition-era gang violence. Like many outlaws of the era, he is today romanticized as a mob legend, Capone’s actual climb to the top in 1920s ...

That Boess had to ask tells you plenty about how well it was working. When the Prohibition era in the United States began on January 19, 1920, a few sage observers predicted it would not go well.