The Elusive Purple Gang

Detroit's Kosher Nostra

• Author(s): Gregory A. Fournier,
• Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
• Pages: 250
• ISBN_10: 1627877150
  ISBN_13: 9781627877152
  
• Language: en
• Categories: True Crime / Organized Crime , History / United States / 20th Century ,

Description:... 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.