A landmark of American historical fiction for the first time in a deluxe collector's edition Prohibition-Era Albany comes to life in a trilogy of novels of crime and corruption, hope and redemption Unfolding in Albany during Prohibition and the Depression, here are three intertwined tales of thwarted yearning, doomed ambition, and hard-won resilience that are now "among the most exuberant literary feats of the past half-century," as Colum McCann writes in this volume's Introduction. Legs (1975) brilliantly envisions the exploits of infamous gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond in the early 1930s. Mining the "truths and secret lies" of Legs's story, the novel delves deeply into our collective fascination with the underworld, casting Legs's criminal career as an alternative version of the American Dream--"the dream," Kennedy writes, "that you can grow up and shoot your way to fame...
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