The Elusive Purple Gang: Detroit's Kosher Nostra

The Elusive Purple Gang: Detroit's Kosher Nostra is a concise history of one of America's most notorious Prohibition gangs. The Burnstein brothers and their associates were the only Jewish gang in the United States to dominate the rackets of a major American city. From their meteoric rise to the top of Detroit's underworld to their ultimate demise, this is an episodic account of the Purple Gang's corrosive pursuit of power and wealth and their inevitable plunge towards self-destruction.

• | Author: Gregory A. Fournier
• | Publisher: Wheatmark
• | Publication Date: November 14, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 250 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1627877142
• | ISBN-13: 9781627877145