Capone, Dillinger, Babe Ruth, George Gershwin. Why did the famous and infamous names of the early 20th century hang out here?

Few eras in few places are as exciting, outrageous and tragic as the period between the end of World War I and the hammer fall of the Great Depression, when Florida partied and passed out and woke up with one heck of a hangover.

Palm Beach Post staff writer Eliot Kleinberg has covered that era in historical features and in segments of his weekly “Post Time” column in Neighborhood Post.

Now, he’s gathered them into a book, Wicked Palm Beach: Lifestyles of the Rich and Heinous (History Press).

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