Nocturno De La Habana Como La Mafia Se Hizo Con Cuba Y La Acabo Perdiendo En La Revolucion
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| Author | : T.J. English |
| Publisher | : DEBATE |
| Total Pages | : 397 |
| Release | : 2012-04-26 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 8499921876 |
El primer libro que analiza en profundidad el fenómeno de la mafia en Cuba. En Nocturno de La Habana, T.J. English nos ofrece un relato fascinante sobre el crimen organizado, la corrupción política, la bulliciosa vida nocturna, la revolución y el conflicto internacional en que se entretejen las historias de la mafia y la revolución cubana que terminará con ella. En la década de los cincuenta, mientras el pueblo cubano se encuentra sometido a un régimen represivo y violento, los jefes mafiosos Meyer Lansky y Lucky Luciano fijaron sus ojos en Cuba. Para ellos era un sueño dorado, la última esperanza para la mafia tras la bonanza de la Ley Seca. Lansky, el mafioso judío, ganó la partida y se hizo con el control de la isla tras haber cultivado estrechos lazos con el dictador Fulgencio Batista. En poco tiempo y con el corrupto gobierno en el bolsillo, Lansky y sus hombres se hicieron con los mayores hoteles y casinos de la ciudad, convirtiéndola en un centro de turismo sin precedentes: las fiestas más lujosas, los famosos de más relumbrón, las mujeres más hermosas, juegos de azar y apuestas sin límite. Pero no contaban con la llegada de Fidel Castro y Ernesto Guevara, empeñados en derrocar al gobierno corrupto y sus aliados extranjeros en una épica batalla que English capta en toda su belleza, gloria y decadencia. Reseñas: «Por fin, el libro definitivo sobre los años dorados de la Mafia en Cuba.» Sam Giancana «Dedicado a los fans de El Padrino II, pero con giros que ni siquiera ellos pueden prever.» Kirkus Reviews
| Author | : T. J. English |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Cuba |
| ISBN | : 9781606711989 |
An award-winning journalist and historian offers the story of how the Mob infiltrated Havana in the 1950s, made a fortune--and lost it all to Fidel Castro.
| Author | : T. J. English |
| Publisher | : William Morrow Paperbacks |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 2009-06-09 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 9780061712746 |
To underworld kingpins Meyer Lansky and Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Cuba was the greatest hope for the future of American organized crime in the post-Prohibition years. In the 1950s, the Mob—with the corrupt, repressive government of brutal Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in its pocket—owned Havana's biggest luxury hotels and casinos, launching an unprecedented tourism boom complete with the most lavish entertainment, top-drawer celebrities, gorgeous women, and gambling galore. But Mob dreams collided with those of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and others who would lead an uprising of the country's disenfranchised against Batista's hated government and its foreign partners—an epic cultural battle that bestselling author T. J. English captures here in all its sexy, decadent, ugly glory.
| Author | : T J English |
| Publisher | : William Morrow |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016-06-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780062155238 |
An award-winning journalist and historian offers the complete story of how the Mob infiltrated Havana in the 1950s, made a fortune--and lost it all to Fidel Castro. 16-page b&w photo insert.
| Author | : T. J. English |
| Publisher | : Mainstream Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2008-09-04 |
| Genre | : Cuba |
| ISBN | : 9781845962234 |
Throughout the 1950s, as the Cuban people laboured under a violently repressive regime, the Mob-financed revelry in Havana never stopped. Tourists from around the world flooded in to gamble, go to the racetrack, see an elaborate floorshow at the Tropicana, hear some of the hottest music around and perhaps partake in the sexual activities that flourished on the fringe of the most colourful nightlife scene of the twentieth century. It may have seemed like fun and games, but for the Havana Mob it was a serious business. Led by Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano - and with the full compliance of President Fulgencio Batista - the Mob set out to create a financial empire that would rival the 'glory days' of Prohibition in the US. For a time, the plan seemed to be a runaway success, but they were sowing the seeds of their own demise. Behind the scenes, Fidel Castro was building opposition to what he portrayed as the debauchery and corruption of capitalism run amok in Havana - the result was revolution. The Havana Mob captures a unique and exotic chapter not only in the history of organised crime but also in the history of the United States, and for the first time the story is told through interviews and the first-hand accounts of those who were actually there.
| Author | : T. J. English |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 784 |
| Release | : 2018-03-20 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 0062568973 |
“A mob saga that has it all—brotherhood and betrayal, swaggering power and glittering success, and a Godfather whose reach seems utterly unrivaled. What a relentless, irresistible read.” —Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author of The Border A fascinating, cinematic, multigenerational history of the Cuban mob in the US from "America’s top chronicler of organized crime"* and New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne. By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become an ethnic polyglot; one of the most powerful illicit organizations was none other than the Cuban mob. Known on both sides of the law as "the Corporation," the Cuban mob’s power stemmed from a criminal culture embedded in south Florida’s exile community—those who had been chased from the island by Castro’s revolution and planned to overthrow the Marxist dictator and reclaim their nation. An epic story of gangsters, drugs, violence, sex, and murder rooted in the streets, The Corporation reveals how an entire generation of political exiles, refugees, racketeers, corrupt cops, hitmen, and their wives and girlfriends became caught up in an American saga of desperation and empire building. T. J. English interweaves the voices of insiders speaking openly for the first time with a trove of investigative material he has gathered over many decades to tell the story of this successful criminal enterprise, setting it against the larger backdrop of revolution, exile, and ethnicity that makes it one of the great American gangster stories that has been overlooked—until now. Drawing on the detailed reporting and impressive volume of evidence that drive his bestselling works, English offers a riveting, in-depth look at this powerful and sordid crime organization and its hold in the US.
| Author | : T. J. English |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 516 |
| Release | : 2011-03-15 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 0061824550 |
In the early 1960s, uncertainty and menace gripped New York, crystallizing in a poisonous divide between a deeply corrupt, cynical, and racist police force, and an African American community buffeted by economic distress, brutality, and narcotics. On August 28, 1963—the day Martin Luther King Jr. declared "I have a dream" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial—two young white women were murdered in their Manhattan apartment. Dubbed the Career Girls Murders case, the crime sent ripples of fear throughout the city, as police scrambled fruitlessly for months to find the killer. But it also marked the start of a ten-year saga of fear, racial violence, and turmoil in the city—an era that took in events from the Harlem Riots of the mid-1960s to the Panther Twenty-One trials and Knapp Commission police corruption hearings of the early 1970s. The Savage City explores this pivotal and traumatic decade through the stories of three very different men: George Whitmore Jr., the near-blind, destitute nineteen-year-old black man who was coerced into confessing to the Career Girls Murders and several other crimes. Whitmore, an innocent man, would spend the decade in and out of the justice system, becoming a scapegoat for the NYPD—and a symbol of the inequities of the system. Bill Phillips, a brazenly crooked NYPD officer who spent years plundering the system before being caught in a corruption sting—and turning jaybird to create the largest scandal in the department's history. Dhoruba bin Wahad, a son of the Bronx and founding member of New York's Black Panther Party, whose militant activism would make him a target of local and federal law enforcement as conflicts between the Panthers and the police gradually devolved into open warfare. Animated by the voices of the three participants—all three of whom spent years in prison, and are still alive today—The Savage City emerges as an epic narrative of injustice and defiance, revealing for the first time the gripping story of how a great city, marred by fear and hatred, struggled for its soul in a time of sweeping social, political, and economic change.
| Author | : T. J. English |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 429 |
| Release | : 2015-09-15 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 0062291009 |
The New York Times bestselling author of The Westies and Paddy Whacked offers a front-row seat at the trial of Whitey Bulger, and an intimate view of the world of organized crime—and law enforcement—that made him the defining Irish American gangster. For sixteen years, Whitey Bulger eluded the long reach of the law. For decades one of the most dangerous men in America, Bulger—the brother of influential Massachusetts senator Billy Bulger—was often romanticized as a Robin Hood-like thief and protector. While he was functioning as the de facto mob boss of New England, Bulger was also serving as a Top Echelon informant for the FBI, covertly feeding local prosecutors information about other mob figures—while using their cover to cleverly eliminate his rivals, reinforce his own power, and protect himself from prosecution. Then, in 2011, he was arrested in southern California and returned to Boston, where he was tried and convicted of racketeering and murder. Our greatest chronicler of the Irish mob in America, T. J. English covered the trial at close range—by day in the courtroom, but also, on nights and weekends, interviewing Bulger’s associates as well as lawyers, former federal agents, and even members of the jury in the backyards and barrooms of Whitey’s world. In Where the Bodies Were Buried, he offers a startlingly revisionist account of Bulger’s story—and of the decades-long culture of collusion between the Feds and the Irish and Italian mob factions that have ruled New England since the 1970s, when a fateful deal left the FBI fatally compromised. English offers an authoritative look at Bulger’s own understanding of his relationship with the FBI and his alleged immunity deal, and illuminates how gangsterism, politics, and law enforcement have continued to be intertwined in Boston. As complex, harrowing, and human as a Scorsese film, Where the Bodies Were Buried is the last word on a reign of terror that many feared would never end.
| Author | : Terry Eagleton |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 1976-08-16 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780520032439 |
"Far and away the best short introduction to Marxist criticism (both history and problems) which I have seen."--Fredric R. Jameson "Terry Eagleton is that rare bird among literary critics--a real writer."--Colin McCabe, The Guardian
| Author | : T. J. English |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2011-11-15 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 1453234276 |
The “riveting” true story of the Vietnamese gang that terrorized Manhattan’s Chinatown, from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Westies (Newsday). They are children of the Vietnam War. Born and raised in the wasteland left by American bombs and napalm, these young men know a particular brand of cruelty—which they are about to export to the United States. When the Vietnamese gangs come to Chinatown, they adopt a name remembered from GI’s helmets: “Born to Kill.” And kill they do, in a frenzy of violence that shocks even the old-school Chinese gangsters who once ran Canal Street. Killing brings them turf, money, and power, but also draws the government’s eye. Even as Born to Kill reaches its height, it is marked for destruction. This story is told from the perspective of Tinh Ngo, a young gang member who eventually grows disenchanted with murder and death. When he decides to inform on his brothers to the police, he enters a shadow world far more dangerous than any gangland.
