Karen Abbott is one of those writers I’ve always meant to get around to reading. She writes about fun pop-history stuff like the Chicago underworld at the turn of the 20th century and female spies who operated during the Civil War. It makes sense she would turn her scholarly attentions to notorious bootlegger George Remus and his wife Imogene.   I would argue that while Al Capone is likely the most famous figure to emerge from prohibition, George Remus has the more interesting story. A […]