I included the whole long subtitle there to show why I was intrigued by this book and why I thought it would be a fun book to listen to on our drive home from California. It turned out that it was only moderately interesting and really started to drag. The first few hours of the book were fascinating, about George Remus and his youth and how he got started as a bootlegger. He seemed like this larger-than-life character. However, once he got arrested and went to jail, the rest of the book seemed like a long repetition of him whining about his life and getting "brainstorms" and yelling at people. Karen Abbott really seemed proud of the fact that she was including all this real-life dialogue which was included from the actual court transcripts involving George Remus, but I feel like it would have been better if it had been a little shorter and didn't go into quite as much detail. It definitely went too long.
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