The Man Who Got Away: The Bugs Moran Story: A Biography

George Bugs Moran was the last of Chicagos spectacular North Side gang leaders a colorful and violent dynasty that began with Dean OBanion in 1920. In The Man That Got Away author Rose Keefe provides the first in-depth look at the enigmatic gangsters charmed and wacky life from his Minnesota childhood to his early years as a horse thief. She chronicles his two marriages his rise and fall in Chicagos Prohibition-era underworld his life as an independent outlaw in the 1930s and 40s and his last days in Leavenworth Penitentiary.In the process of telling Morans story some of the twentieth centurys most fascinating and bewildering gangland figures are revisited: Al Capone Johnny Torrio Dean OBanion Vincent the Schemer Drucci Earl Hymie Weiss showboating Chicago Mayor Big Bill Thompson the gang-hating but oddly pro-Moran Judge John H. Lyle Virgil Summers and Albert Fouts.History did not record the details of Morans Last confession but the public record and Rose Keefes interviews with Morans former associates now allow us to form an educated guess.