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Author : Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781017536355
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (363 download)
Download or read book The Menace of the Mob written by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Haddad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684337200
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Paradise Palms written by Paul Haddad and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is October 1957. A time of Eisenhower conformity, police and mob strongholds, and Red Scare paranoia. A relic of Hollywood's Golden Age, the aging Paradise Palms Hotel is on the brink of change. David Shapiro-eldest son of recently widowed Max Shapiro-has assumed a leadership role. But the more he digs into the hotel's business, the more he questions who his father is. It's not just the tenuous ties to gangster Mickey Cohen, who is trying to commandeer "the Palms," but also the sudden appearance of a mysterious African American guest named Rae Lynn, who improbably rises in stature. As long-buried secrets come to light, David's battle to keep the family intact takes a tragic turn. His actions mirror an America lurching from the surface simplicity of the '50s to the turmoil of the 1960s in this riveting neo-noir family saga.
Author : Paul Lieberman
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250020166
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Gangster Squad written by Paul Lieberman and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Read this man's book." --James Ellroy Gangster Squad presents a harrowing, edge-of-your-seat narrative of murder and secrets, revenge and heroism in the City of Angels—the real events behind the blockbuster Warner Brothers film starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. GANGSTER SQUAD chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. In 1946, the LAPD launched the Gangster Squad with eight men who met covertly on street corners and slept with Tommy guns under their beds. But for two cops, all that mattered was nailing the strutting gangster Mickey Cohen. Sgt. Jack O'Mara was a square-jawed church usher, Sgt. Jerry Wooters a cynical maverick. About all they had in common was their obsession. So O'Mara set a trap to prove Mickey was a killer. And Wooters formed an alliance with Mickey's budding rival, Jack "The Enforcer" Whalen. Two cops -- two hoodlums. Their fates collided in the closing days of the 1950s, when late one night "The Enforcer" confronted Mickey and his crew. The aftermath would shake both LA's mob and police department, and signal the end of a defining era in the city's history. Warner Brothers developed the film Gangster Squad based on the research award-winning journalist Paul Lieberman conducted for this book, which reveals the unbelievable true stories behind the film. He spent more than a decade tracking down and interviewing surviving members of the real police unit as well as families and associates of the mobsters they pursued. Gangster Squad is a tour-de-force narrative reminiscent of LA Confidential.
Author : Joe Griffin
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615924027
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)
Download or read book Mob Nemesis written by Joe Griffin and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While J. Edgar Hoover was denying that there was such a thing as organized crime, in the forties, fifties, and sixties the mob was busy forming powerful syndicates in many northeastern cities. This book tells the fascinating, first-hand story of how FBI Special Agent Joe Griffin, with the help of a team of courageous professionals, succeeded through dogged determination and uncanny street smarts to convict major La Cosa Nostra leaders in Buffalo, Cleveland, Rochester, and Youngstown. Forget Hollywood''s version of the mafia; this is the real inside story from a man who observed the day-by-day behavior of these "instinctual killers" and for whom "it was a matter of principle to destroy them." FBI Medal of Valor recipient Joe Griffin, with the help of writer/researcher Don DeNevi, provides intimate details of mob intrigue, drug deals, gambling rings, hits, bloody gangland wars, and even a plot to plant a "mole" in the Cleveland FBI office. All the more fascinating because it''s true, Mob Nemesis is an engrossing story of the underworld from a man who took them on and won.
Author : Lee Grieveson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813535579
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Mob Culture written by Lee Grieveson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mob Culture offers a long-awaited, fresh look at the American gangster film, exposing its hidden histories from the Black Hand gangs of the early twentieth century to The Sopranos. Departing from traditional approaches that have typically focused on the "nature" of the gangster, the editors have collected essays that engage the larger question of how the meaning of criminality has changed over time. Grouped into three thematic sections, the essays examine gangster films through the lens of social, gender, and racial/ethnic issues.
Author : Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN 13 : 161016413X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Menace of the Herd written by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on 1943 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Reppetto
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429952539
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Bringing Down the Mob written by Thomas Reppetto and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to American Mafia chronicles the fifty-year attack by the federal government that virtually extinguished the nation’s most powerful crime syndicate. In the critically acclaimed American Mafia, Thomas Reppetto narrated the ferocious ascendancy of organized crime in America. In this fascinating sequel, he follows the mob from its peak into a shadowy period of decline as the government, no longer able to deny its existence, made subduing the Mafia a matter of national priority. Reppetto draws on a lifetime of field experience to tell the stories of the Mafia’s twentieth-century leadership, showing how men such as Sam Giancana and John Gotti became household names. Crusaders like Robert Kennedy led concerted—if sometimes sporadic—attacks against organized crime. As the battles between the feds and the Mafia moved from the streets to the courtrooms, Reppetto describes how it came to resemble a conflict between sovereign powers. In direct, shoot-from-the-hip prose, Reppetto chronicles a turning point in American Mafia history, and offers the provocative theory that, given the right formula of connections and shrewd business, a new generation of multinational criminals may be poised to take up the Mafia’s mantle. “Reppetto . . . is one of the rare commentators on the contemporary Mafia who has been able to view the Mob’s power grabs and struggles from the inside . . . [an] exhaustive and fascinating study.” —Booklist
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Seamen's Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gus Russo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596918985
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)
Download or read book Supermob written by Gus Russo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-12 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is investigative reporter Gus Russo's most explosive book yet, the remarkable story of the "Supermob"-a cadre of men who, over the course of decades, secretly influenced nearly every aspect of American society. Presenting startling revelations about such famous members as Jules Stein, Joe Glaser, Ronald Reagan, Lew Wasserman, and John Jacob Factor-as well as infamous, low-profile members-Russo pulls the lid off of a half-century of criminal infiltration into American business, politics, and society. At the heart of it all is Sidney "The Fixer" Korshak, who from the 1940s until his death in the 1990s was not only the most powerful lawyer in the world, according to the FBI, but the enigmatic player behind countless twentieth-century power mergers, political deals, and organized crime chicaneries.
Author : James Weldon Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195076451
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays written by James Weldon Johnson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two volumes of writings represent Johnson's experiences as one of black America's premier civil rights statesmen, and leader, participant, and historian of the Black Literary Movement of the 1920s.
Author : George De Stefano
Publisher : Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus, Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780865479623
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (796 download)
Download or read book An Offer We Can't Refuse written by George De Stefano and published by Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus, Giroux. This book was released on 2007-01-23 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mafia has maintained an enduring hold on the American cultural imagination--even as it continues to wrongly color our real-life perception of Italian Americans. Journalist and cultural critic De Stefano takes a look at the origins and prevalence of the Mafia mythos in America. Beginning with a consideration of Italian emigration in the early twentieth century and the fear and prejudice--among both Americans and Italians--that informed our earliest conception of what was the largest immigrant group to enter the United States, De Stefano explores how these impressions laid the groundwork for the images so familiar to us today and uses them to illuminate and explore the variety and allure of Mafia stories. At the same time, he addresses the lingering power of the goodfella cliché, which makes it all but impossible to green-light a project about the Italian American experience not set in gangland.--From publisher description.
Author : W. Lawler Wilson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Menace of Socialism written by W. Lawler Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Florida State Bar Association
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of the Florida State Bar Association written by Florida State Bar Association and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marion Mills Miller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Great Debates in American History: Departments of government written by Marion Mills Miller and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Conservator written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul A. Gilje
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469608634
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The Road to Mobocracy written by Paul A. Gilje and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Road to Mobocracy is the first major study of public disorder in New York City from the Revolutionary period through the Jacksonian era. During that time, the mob lost its traditional, institutional role as corporate safety valve and social corrective, tolerated by public officials. It became autonomous, a violent menace to individual and public good expressing the discordant urges and fears of a pluralistic society. Indeed, it tested the premises of democratic government. Paul Gilje relates the practices of New York mobs to their American and European roots and uses both historical and anthropological methods to show how those mobs adapted to local conditions. He questions many of the traditional assumptions about the nature of the mob and scrutinizes explanations of its transformation: among them, the loss of a single-interest society, industrialization and changes in the workforce, increased immigration, and the rise of sub-classes in American society. Gilje's findings can be extended to other cities. The lucid narrative incorporates meticulous and exhaustive archival research that unearths hundreds of New York City disturbances -- about the Revolution, bawdy-houses, theaters, dogs and hogs, politics, elections, ethnic conflict, labor actions, religion. Illustrations recreate the turbulent atmosphere of the city; maps, graphs, and tables define the spacial and statistical dimensions of its ferment. The book is a major contribution to our understanding of social change in the early Republic as well as to the history of early New York, urban studies, and rioting.
Author : David Scott Witwer
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252076664
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Shadow of the Racketeer written by David Scott Witwer and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed account of labor corruption in the 1930s and the zealous journalist who railed against it
