Deirdre marie capone biography of abraham maslow

Available at Bookstores Nationwide including click any graphic to search for your local store :. He sees himself as an average, successful American businessman, even if his comment understates the whole picture. As the grand-niece of Al, Capone recounts how she hid her family name for years. When a school research project leads her to come clean to her kids, she begins recalling the rich family history she once knew.

In fact, their childhood is fairly normal, with Al finishing high school, and Ralph working odd jobs to help support the family.

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Everything changes when their father dies and Prohibition becomes law. Forced to earn a living for his family, Al, and eventually Ralph, head to Chicago and down the path to criminal celebrity. Throughout the book, Capone tries to reconcile what she knows about her family with recorded history. I cannot make him out to be a perfect man, or even a good man.

But what I want people to know is that he was a complex man. He was human and he had a heart.

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The author recalls how loving certain members of the Capone family were, particularly her great-aunt Maffie who helps the author to see good in the men. It brings a fresh perspective to the other Al Capone biographies, and finally gives the larger-than-life gangster the one thing that may have eluded him in life: to be seen as simply a human being.

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