Gangsters During the Depression Share: Copy Link. William J. Helmer ... "Most of the top-flight hoodlums of the Middle West were 100-per-cent American boys with no foreign background whatsoever." ...

It reduces American diplomacy to a crude marketplace where alliances are auctioned off to the highest bidder. Foreign aid has never been perfect, and the U.S. has not always acted altruistically.

In his book, Government Gangsters, Patel seeks to expose the corruption of the “Deep State.” ... to ultimately return our agencies and departments to work for the American People.” ...

The mix of fear and allure that draws audiences to crime drama is also part of why movies and TV shows about gangsters are so ...

Gangsters deported from the U.S. to Italy usually suffer from acute nostalgia for the old easygoing, easy-taking American ways. Last week a deported Chicago hoodlum named Frank Frigenti remembered ...

Patel’s 2024 documentary Government Gangsters, a companion film to his 2023 book published under the same title, is a window into his thinking.The experience of watching Government Gangsters is ...