Mobsters And Thugs
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Author | : Olindo Romeo Chiocca |
Publisher | : Guernica Editions |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9781550711042 |
This is an intriguing and humorous book that compiles over 200 underworld quotes from over 60 different gangsters, their women, lawyers, victims, and the politicians they owned. From the early Black Hand to prohibition and onto the creation of the National Crime Syndicate and Murder Inc., each quote and its accompanying historical caption give a fascinating look at the men and women who were involved in creating one of the largest and most powerful revenue-generating organisations in North America.
Author | : Michael F. Rizzo |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2012-06-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 161423549X |
Take a tour of Buffalo, NY's mobster and mafia history. Local mob expert reveals gangsters' stories, hangouts and more. Buffalo has housed its fair share of thugs and mobsters. Besides common criminals and bank robbers, a powerful crime family headed by local boss Stefano Magaddino emerged in the 1920s. Close to Canada, Niagara Falls and Buffalo were perfect avenues through which to transport booze, and Magaddino and his Mafiosi maintained a stranglehold on the city until his death in 1974. Local mob expert Michael Rizzo takes a tour of Buffalo's mafia exploits everything from these brutal gangsters' favorite hangouts to secret underground tunnels to murder.
Author | : Sam Giancana |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 946 |
Release | : 2009-11-04 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 006198647X |
Some time in the early 1960s, during the golden age of organized crime in America—the era that would inspire The Godfather; Goodfellas, and even The Sopranos—federal investigators pulled every known piece of information on more than 800 Mafia members worldwide into a thick, phone-book-sized directory. From old-school gangsters like Lucky Luciano and Mickey Cohen to young turks like Paul Castellano and Vinny "The Chin" Gigante, the guide offered at-a-glance profiles of small-time thugs and major dons alike... and was allegedly the book Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy used to investigate the mob. Recently discovered, and published for the first time in this facsimile edition, Mafia is a treasure trove of info on the underworld in mid-century America—a revelatory artifact and an irresistible read.
Author | : Mark Galeotti |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300186827 |
The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia's much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western readers can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, a group that has survived and thrived amid the changes brought on by Stalinism, the Cold War, the Afghan War, and the end of the Soviet experiment. The vory--as the Russian mafia is also known--was born early in the twentieth century, largely in the Gulags and criminal camps, where they developed their unique culture. Identified by their signature tattoos, members abided by the thieves' code, a strict system that forbade all paid employment and cooperation with law enforcement and the state. Based on two decades of on-the-ground research, Galeotti's captivating study details the vory's journey to power from their early days to their adaptation to modern-day Russia's free-wheeling oligarchy and global opportunities beyond.
Author | : James B. Jacobs |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2007-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0814742947 |
The first book to document organized labor and the massive federal clean-up effort.
Author | : Peter Maas |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 1999-01-27 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 0060930969 |
Sammy the Bull Gravano is the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defeat. In telling Gravano's story, Peter Maas brings us as never before into the innermost sanctums of the Cosa Nostra as if we were there ourselves--a secret underworld of power, lust, greed, betrayal, and deception, with the specter of violent death always waiting in the wings.
Author | : Dennis N. Griffin |
Publisher | : Huntington Press Inc |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1935396382 |
What do you do when the law wants you behind bars and the New York crime families want you buried? Surviving the Mob is a cautionary tale of the harsh reality of a criminal, inmate, fugitive, and witness who -- so far -- has lived to tell the tale.
Author | : T. J. English |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 878 |
Release | : 2018-02-13 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1504051394 |
Enter a world where money, muscle, and murder reign with three true crime books from the New York Times–bestselling author and Edgar Award finalist. Whitey’s Payback: In this collection of sixteen stories culled from his journalism career, author T. J. English reveals the violent world of crime with in-depth pieces on everything from old-school mobsters to corrupt federal agents—including the most feared gangster in Boston history (and secret FBI informant), James “Whitey” Bulger, who vanished for sixteen years before finally being brought to justice. “Hard-hitting reporting.” —Anthony Bruno, author of The Iceman The Westies: They were the gang even the Mafia thought twice about fighting—a gang of young, wild Irishmen led by cold-blooded Jimmy Coonan and his loyal gunman Mickey Featherstone who ruled Hell’s Kitchen with a bloody fist. Their savagery gave them power, but their quick rise would eventually lead to betrayal and their ultimate downfall in this tale of vengeance, ambition, and the last of the Irish Mob in New York. “A harrowing account of big city crime.” —Library Journal Born to Kill: This Edgar Award finalist chronicles the rise and fall of the infamous Born to Kill gang, a group of young Vietnamese men raised in the wasteland left by American bombs and napalm who came to New York’s Chinatown to make a new life, but instead brought death in their wake. Told from the perspective of one gang member who wanted more than a life of bloodshed and testified against his brethren, Born to Kill is a shocking account of the American Dream gone nightmarishly wrong. “Hard-hitting . . .torrid and fascinating.” —The Austin Chronicle
Author | : Patrick Downey |
Publisher | : Barricade Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781569803615 |
This title chronicles virtually every widely known Mafioso, bootlegger, racketeer and thug who terrorised New York City in the early 20th century. The murders of some 600-plus gangsters are profiled in detail.
Author | : Nate Hendley |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 507 |
Release | : 2009-12-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
A detailed compendium of American gangsters and gangs from the end of the Civil War to the present day. American Gangsters, Then and Now: An Encyclopedia ranges from Western outlaws revered as Robin Hoods to the Depression's flamboyant bootleggers and bank robbers to the late 20th century's drug kingpins and "Dapper Dons." It is the first comprehensive resource on the gangster's historical evolution and unshakable grip on the American imagination. American Gangsters, Then and Now tells the stories of a number of famous gangsters and gangs—Jesse James and Billy the Kid, the Black Hand, Al Capone, Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels, the Mafia, Crips and Bloods, and more. Avoiding sensationalism, the straightforward entries include biographical portraits and historical background for each subject, as well as accounts of infamous robberies, killings, and other events, all well documented with both archival newspapers and extensive research into the files of the FBI. Readers will understand the families, the places, and the times that produced these monumental criminals, as well as the public mindset that often found them sympathetic and heroic.