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The Rackets

Author : Thomas Kelly
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453247343
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Rackets written by Thomas Kelly and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVFired from the mayor’s office, a political flack ends up in his old neighborhood, with a newly dangerous mission/div DIVJimmy Dolan should have known better than to shove Frankie Keefe. Keefe may be scum—a corrupt teamster president who’s looking forward to crushing Jimmy’s father in the next union election—but Jimmy is the mayor’s right hand man, and kowtowing to scum is his job. After hearing one too many cracks about his father, Jimmy shoves the union boss onto the floor, in full view of some of the city’s most powerful people. In a flash, Jimmy’s career is finished./divDIV /divDIVHe returns to Inwood, in the wilds of north Manhattan, to pick up the pieces. But when his father is murdered, Jimmy takes up the old man’s campaign against Frankie Keefe. It may be suicide, but he’s got nothing else to lose. After years in City Hall, Jimmy Dolan is about to learn how ugly New York politics can get./div

Reds or Rackets?

Author : Howard Kimeldorf
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520912779
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Reds or Rackets? written by Howard Kimeldorf and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988-11-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is the American working class different? For generations, scholars and activists alike have wrestled with this question, with an eye to explaining why workers in the United States are not more like their radicalized European counterparts. Approaching the question from a different angle, Reds or Rackets? provides a fascinating examination of the American labor movement from the inside out, as it were, by analyzing the divergent sources of radicalism and conservatism within it. Kimeldorf focuses on the political contrast between East and West Coast longshoremen from World War I through the early years of the Cold War, when the difference between the two unions was greatest. He explores the politics of the West Coast union that developed into a hot bed of working class insurgency and contrasts it with the conservative and racket-ridden East Coast longshoreman's union. Two unions, based in the same industry—as different as night and day. The question posed by Kimeldorf is, why? Why "reds" on one coast and racketeers on the other? To answer this question Kimeldorf provides a systematic comparison of the two unions, illuminating the political consequences of occupational recruitment, industry structure, mobilization strategies, and industrial conflict during this period. In doing so, Reds orRackets? sheds new light on the structural and historical bases of radical and conservative unionism. More than a comparative study of two unions, Reds or Rackets? is an exploration of the dynamics of trade unionism, sources of membership loyalty, and neglected aspects of working class consciousness. It is an incisive and valuable study that will appeal to historians, social scientists, and anyone interested in understanding the political trajectory of twentieth-century American labor.

The Rackets

Author : Thomas Kelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780297847304
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Rackets written by Thomas Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Dolan, onetime roughneck construction worker, is now an Ivy League-educated advance man for New York City's mayor. When he strikes out against a corrupt union boss at a power breakfast, he is fired. Meanwhile, Jimmy's father is running for president of the Teamsters. He is brutally muscled out of the race, so Jimmy must risk his life and return to the working-class world he left behind. Set in the union halls, taverns and half-built skyscrapers of a Manhattan, populated by Irish racketeers, Italian mobsters and Russian killers, THE RACKETS is a fast-paced literary thriller that paints a vivid portrait of an urban underworld rarely seen in fiction.

War is a Racket

Author : Smedley Butler
Publisher : Jovian Press
ISBN 13 : 1537820796
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book War is a Racket written by Smedley Butler and published by Jovian Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler frankly discusses how business interests commercially benefit (including war profiteering) from warfare. He had been appointed commanding officer of the Gendarmerie during the United States occupation of Haiti, which lasted from 1915 to 1934.

When the Rackets Reigned

Author : Ed Taggert
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9780595612109
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book When the Rackets Reigned written by Ed Taggert and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-06-15 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Kefauver Committee hearings in the U.S. Senate in 1951, it was revealed that organized crime was extending its tentacles into Reading, PA. Five years later, after a new Democratic administration took over in the city, the IRS launched a campaign to collect taxes from gambling machine operators. Two years after that the federal Alcohol and Tax Unit raided a huge still and IRS agents completed investigations of two large numbers banks. After President Kennedy signed into law interstate gambling legislation in 1961, J. Edgar Hoover sent 100 FBI agents into Reading to arrest more than 100 gamblers in a large craps casino. Year after year local law enforcement looked the other way as racketeers took over the city. A bookie working for the Philadelphia Mafia was murdered in Reading before testifying at a grand jury hearing. The local mob kingpin, Abe Minker, was eventually convicted and imprisoned, as was Mayor John Kubacki. The war raged for six years before organized crime lost its control of vice in Reading.

Racquet

Author : David Shaftel
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1913462021
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Racquet written by David Shaftel and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best writing on tennis from the best tennis writers in the business. Racquet was founded in 2016 to be the voice of a new tennis boom. When the popularity of tennis peaked in the late '70s and early '80s, the sport was populated by buccaneering talents with outsize personas, such as Borg, Evert, McEnroe, Navratilova, Gerulaitis, Austin, King, and Connors. The game was played in every park, and tennis clothes became appropriate attire for cocktails as well as for a match. With success, however, came polish, and tennis--if not the game itself, then how it came to be represented in the culture--got boring. Having a big personality was no longer a virtue. Tennis went back to being a bastion of the elite. Racquet is a place for those who knew all along that the spirit of the tennis boom was alive. Tennis has always been present in the arts, in the popular culture, in the skateboarding, hip-hop, and fashion worlds. That side of tennis was--and is--obscured by the tightly controlled messaging of the athletes, the corporate glean of the major tournaments, and the all-white attire of the country-club scene. Racquet was launched to represent the latent, diverse, and large constituency of tennis that has not been embraced by the sport writ large. Featuring the work of some of today's finest writers, the quarterly independent magazine highlights the art, culture, and style that are adjacent to the sport--and just enough of the pro game to keep the diehards satisfied. This collection features some of the best writing from the first four years of Racquet and tackles such immediate topics as: How should tennis smell? What's the deal with Andre Agassi's private jet? What can a professional tennis player learn from Philip Roth? Why is tennis important in Lolita? How was Arthur Ashe like Muhammad Ali? And, crucially, what lessons have we learned from the implosion of that first tennis boom?

Racket Sports Collectibles

Author : Robert T. Everitt
Publisher : Schiffer Book for Collectors
ISBN 13 : 9780764316470
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Racket Sports Collectibles written by Robert T. Everitt and published by Schiffer Book for Collectors. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful assortment of vintage items related to lawn tennis, squash, badminton, and table tennis, dating from the 1890s forward. Features books, magazines, tournament programs and tickets, playing cards, rackets and other equipment, photographs, artwork, postcards, ceramic figurines, trophies, jewelry, and more. Historical background, glossary, and price guide provided.

When the Rackets Reigned

Author : Ed Taggert
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059549689X
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book When the Rackets Reigned written by Ed Taggert and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Kefauver Committee hearings in the U.S. Senate in 1951, it was revealed that organized crime was extending its tentacles into Reading, PA. Five years later, after a new Democratic administration took over in the city, the IRS launched a campaign to collect taxes from gambling machine operators. Two years after that the federal Alcohol and Tax Unit raided a huge still and IRS agents completed investigations of two large numbers banks. After President Kennedy signed into law interstate gambling legislation in 1961, J. Edgar Hoover sent 100 FBI agents into Reading to arrest more than 100 gamblers in a large craps casino. Year after year local law enforcement looked the other way as racketeers took over the city. A bookie working for the Philadelphia Mafia was murdered in Reading before testifying at a grand jury hearing. The local mob kingpin, Abe Minker, was eventually convicted and imprisoned, as was Mayor John Kubacki. The war raged for six years before organized crime lost its control of vice in Reading.

The Politics of Protection Rackets in Post-New Order Indonesia

Author : Ian Douglas Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135042098
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Protection Rackets in Post-New Order Indonesia written by Ian Douglas Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gangs and militias have been a persistent feature of social and political life in Indonesia. During the authoritarian New Order regime they constituted part of a vast network of sub-contracted coercion and social control on behalf of the state. Indonesia’s subsequent democratisation has seen gangs adapt to and take advantage of the changed political context. New types of populist street based organisations have emerged that combine predatory rent-seeking with claims of representing marginalised social and economic groups. Based on extensive fieldwork in Jakarta this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the changing relationship between gangs, militias and political power and authority in post-New Order Indonesia. It argues that gangs and militias have manufactured various types of legitimacy in consolidating localised territorial monopolies and protection economies. As mediators between the informal politics of the street and the world of formal politics they have become often influential brokers in Indonesia’s decentralised electoral democracy. More than mere criminal extortion, it is argued that the protection racket as a social relation of coercion and domination remains a salient feature of Indonesia’s post-authoritarian political landscape. This ground-breaking study will be of interest to students and scholars of Indonesian and Southeast Asian politics, political violence, gangs and urban politics.

The Encyclopædia of Sport & Games: Rackets - Zebra

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopædia of Sport & Games: Rackets - Zebra written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Squash Racquets: the Khan Game

Author : Hashim Khan
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814314692
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Squash Racquets: the Khan Game written by Hashim Khan and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the player and his style of the game, given in his own words.

Rackets in Canada and the Montreal Racket Club

Author : Christopher G. Marks
Publisher : Christoper Marks
ISBN 13 : 9780969126270
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Rackets in Canada and the Montreal Racket Club written by Christopher G. Marks and published by Christoper Marks. This book was released on 1990 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Investigation of So-called "rackets". Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-third Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 74, a Resolution Authorizing an Investigation of the Matter of So-called "rackets" with a View to Their Suppression: pt. 1. Hearings, New York city, August 14 to 15, 1933. pt. 2. Hearing, Detroit, Mich., October 3, 1933. pt. 3. Hearings, Chicago, October 23 and 24, 1933. pt. 4. Hearings, New York city, November 23 and 24, 1933. pt. 5. Hearing, New York city, December 21, 1933. pt. 6. Index

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Investigation of So-called "rackets". Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-third Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 74, a Resolution Authorizing an Investigation of the Matter of So-called "rackets" with a View to Their Suppression: pt. 1. Hearings, New York city, August 14 to 15, 1933. pt. 2. Hearing, Detroit, Mich., October 3, 1933. pt. 3. Hearings, Chicago, October 23 and 24, 1933. pt. 4. Hearings, New York city, November 23 and 24, 1933. pt. 5. Hearing, New York city, December 21, 1933. pt. 6. Index written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wright and Ditson's Lawn Tennis Guide

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Wright and Ditson's Lawn Tennis Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Investigation of So-Called "Rackets"

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1042 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Investigation of So-Called "Rackets" written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also investigates the problem of crime prevention in general. Oct. 3, 1933 hearing was held in Detroit, Mich; Oct. 23, 24, 1933 hearings were held in Chicago, Ill.; Aug. 14, 15, Nov. 23, 24, Dec. 21, 1933 hearings were held in NYC, Jan,31, 1934 hearings were held in Washington.

New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.

Author : New York (State). Court of Appeals.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1434 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs. written by New York (State). Court of Appeals. and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 1434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume contains: (Cole v. Lord, Inc.)

Esquire

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Esquire written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: