
No crime figure of our time influenced the course of modern American culture the way Owen Madden did. Starting as the leader of the Gophers, the most violent Irish street gang in Hell's Kitchen, the immigrant Madden rose to prominence as the leading brewer and bootlegger in Prohibition...

A fictionalized memoir of Owen Owney Madden, one of the most colorful and influential Irish mobsters of the twentieth century, recalls his rise from leader of a violent Irish street gang in Hell's Kitchen to the leading bootlegger in Prohibition New York, lover of Mae West, proprietor...