Members of the Mafia, from real-life bosses like Al Capone to fictional gangsters like Tony Soprano, have captured the public imagination since the 1920s.
Starting in January 1920, the United States became a dry country. Prohibition banned the manufacture and sale of alcohol in an attempt to civilize unruly Americans (and some other reasons). The experiment had many unintended consequences, but most dangerously, it fostered the rise of organized crime and the American Mafia.
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