Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero [Kindle Edition] Author: Douglas Perry | Language: English | ISBN:
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Eliot Ness is famous for leading the Untouchables against the notorious mobster Al Capone. But it turns out that the legendary Prohibition Bureau squad’s daring raids were only the beginning. Ness’s true legacy reaches far beyond Big
Al and Chicago.
Eliot Ness follows the lawman through his days in Chicago and into his forgotten second act. As the public safety director of Cleveland, he achieved his greatest success: purging the city of corruption so deep that the mob and the police were often one and the same. And it was here, too, that he faced one of his greatest challenges: a brutal, serial killer known as the Torso Murderer, who terrorized the city for years.
Eliot Ness presents the first complete picture of the real Eliot Ness. Both fearless and shockingly shy, he inspired courage and loyalty in men twice his age, forged law-enforcement innovations that are still with us today, and earned acclaim and scandal from both his professional and personal lives. Through it all, he believed unwaveringly in the integrity of law and the basic goodness of his fellow Americans.
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- Print Length: 339 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0670025887
- Publisher: Viking Adult (February 20, 2014)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00DMCUZP8
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Eliot Ness, Al Capone’s nemesis and arguably the most famous G-Man of the Prohibition era; with his Untouchables, he cleaned out police corruption in Chicago, closed the Mob’s illegal breweries and speakeasies and sent Al “Scarface” Capone to prison. Or so the fiction went according to the ABC television series 1959-63 “The Untouchables”, starring Robert Stack as Ness and later (1987) reinforced by a big screen production by the same title, with Kevin Costner in the lead role. The heroic mythology of Eliot Ness was the product of a mostly hyperbolic fictional biography of Ness written in collaboration with sportswriter Oscar Fraley, about a year prior to his death from alcoholism.
In reality, Ness was never a G Man. He was an agent of the Bureau of Prohibition, where he was tasked to form a team of selected men to enforce prohibition in Chicago, in the late 1920s, that was known as “the Capone squad” and later dubbed as “The Untouchables”, by the local press. The squad achieved significant success in combating the Mob’s smuggling and illegal alcohol trade, smashing breweries and closing down speakeasies until the Repeal of Prohibition (accomplished with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment) on December 5, 1933.
Ness did not arrest Capone and probably never met him. Capone was jailed in 1931 on tax evasion charges. Also the unflinching dedication, incorruptibility and honesty of Ness were qualities not shared by some of his team, who were ‘touchable’ and open to bribery.
Ironically, Ness is not remembered for his outstanding work as Director of Public Safety in Cleveland, when he was hired in 1934, to clean out rampant crime and municipal government corruption.
I have a lifelong interest in CPD history. Chief of Police George J. Matowitz was my grandfather, and I have served as a trustee of the Cleveland Police Historical Society for years.
I have always wondered about the basis for Eliot Ness's glittering reputation.While he deserves credit for his reorganization of the department's operations, he seems to have been unable to recognize serious corruption when it was right under his nose. This is demonstrated by his relationship with Ernest Molnar in particular. It is sadly ironic that a man who made his reputation through his work as a prohibition agent should have had serious issues with alcohol himself.
It's also worth noting that his career in law enforcement was essentially over by the time he reached forty.
The book is marred by some pretty sloppy fact checking. The claim is made that Ness established the CPD Mounted Unit.
Since this happened in 1911, it is very unlikely that eight year old schoolboy Eliot Ness had anything to do with it. The same is true of the CPD Motorcycle Unit which was in operation long before Ness arrived in the city. Also, the author describes Ness consulting with a faculty member from Cuyahoga Community College, an impossibility since the the college wasn't established until years after Ness died.
I admit to a certain bias, but I was not at all impressed with the book's characterization of my grandfather. George Matowitz spent twenty five years rising through the ranks to become Cleveland Chief of Police on merit. He began his service as a law enforcement professional when Eliot Ness was two years old. I very much doubt that he was as inept and self serving as Mr. Perry apparently wishes us to believe.
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