Dead Man’s Blues – Bibliography
For my research I don’t only read non-fiction, but also lots of fiction and poetry that are related to the setting, so that’s why there are these kinds of books in the list below. The list isn’t complete — there were lots of newspapers, magazines, archival material, primary sources and websites I read in addition to what’s below, and there are probably a few books I read which I’ve forgotten to put on the list.
Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism – Thomas Brothers
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong – Terry Teachout
Chicago Jazz – William Howland Kenney
Chicago: A Biography – Dominic A. Pacyga
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream – Thomas Dyja
Capone: The Man and the Era – Laurence Bergreen
Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America’s Most Wanted Gangster – Jonathan Eig
Remembering Chicago: Crime in the Capone Era – John Russick
American Mafia: Chicago – William Griffith
American Mafia: A History of Its Rise to Power – Thomas Repetto
Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties – Michael Lesy
City of Scoundrels – Gary Krist
The Girls of Murder City – Douglas L. Perry
Len Small: Governors and Gangsters – Jim Ridings
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