Meeting Luciano
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Meeting Luciano
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Author : Anna Esaki-Smith
language : en
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Release Date : 1999-04-01
Meeting Luciano written by Anna Esaki-Smith and has been published by Algonquin Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-04-01 with Fiction categories.
To Hanako Shimoda, recently divorced, Luciano Pavarotti is a god. To her daughter, Emily, this fixation on Pavarotti is a harmless fantasy, the byproduct of loneliness. Meeting Luciano is the story of what happens when Hanako acts on her fantasy and invites opera star Pavarotti to dinner in their Westchester County home. Emily, with no real career plan, has gone back after college to work at her old summer job - waiting tables at the local Japanese steakhouse. Even worse than wearing a fake kimono and obi is that she's living at home with her mother. At first, her mom seems pretty much her old self - still reliving her Japanese childhood; still affecting the airs of a European sophisticate; still brewing espresso, cooking Italian, and singing arias from Rigoletto while she cleans; still idolizing Luciano Pavarotti. But when Hanako hires Alex, a handsome Greek, to renovate the kitchen, Emily begins to worry. And when Alex, who seems to be getting very cozy with her mother, spills the secret that the renovation is in preparation for a visit from Pavarotti, Emily is thrown into a wonderfully familiar quandary: how to deal with a parent who might be losing it. First-time novelist Anna Esaki-Smith has a wry, understated approach to the themes of assimilation, growing up, striking out on shaky ground, finding yourself - and loving your mother. Like a reflecting pool in a Japanese garden, Meeting Luciano gradually reveals the beauty of its subtle design.
Lucky Luciano
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Author : Tim Newark
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-01-31
Lucky Luciano written by Tim Newark and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-31 with Social Science categories.
Charles 'Lucky' Luciano was a vicious mobster who rose to become the multimillionaire king of the New York underworld. He was a legend - but also a fake master criminal without real power, his reputation manipulated and maintained by the government agents who had put him behind bars. Drawing on secret government documents from archives in America and Europe, this myth-busting biography tells Luciano's real story, from his early days as a top hit man for the mob to his exploits running sex and narcotics empires and revelations about his trip to Nazi Germany to set up a drugs importing racket. His career abruptly halted by imprisonment, Luciano's reputation was enhanced by rumours that he was helping to win the Second World War for the Allies in Sicily and the Mediterranean. Through painstaking research, Newark exposes the truth about what Luciano really did during the war. Expelled from the US in 1946, Luciano returned to Italy, where he was reputed to head a massive transatlantic narcotics network. In a complex conspiracy, he became a victim of the far greater powers around him, and Newark provides evidence that, at one time, he was even working as a Cold War agent, helping the US government fight Communism in Sicily. Lucky Luciano: Mafia Murderer and Secret Agent turns accepted Mafia history on its head with an extraordinary story that has never been told before.
Hearings
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Author : United States. Congress Senate
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with categories.
Investigation Of Improper Activities In The Labor Or Management Field
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957
Investigation Of Improper Activities In The Labor Or Management Field written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with categories.
Hearings
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957
Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with categories.
Organized Crime In America
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Organized Crime In America written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Organized crime categories.
Offshore Vegas
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Author : Peter Russo
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2007-04
Offshore Vegas written by Peter Russo and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04 with Business & Economics categories.
Most people have heard of Fidel Castro, but what was Cuba like before Castro? Who was Fulgencio Batista? How did he gain control of the country and why did he need to be replaced? What created the conditions under which someone like Castro was able to gain - and maintain the support of the people? This book offers a surprising answer: The mob. Inside this book, you will discover how Batista's friendship with Meyer Lansky allowed the Mafia to become dollar for dollar partners with the Cuban government in the casino hotel industry. This industry came to dominate the Cuban economy in the 1950's, and sowed the seeds of revolution. Finally, you will learn what life was like for Cubans who lived through these times as they explain in their own words how events caused them to either flee - or join the revolution.
Memories Of Angela Aguilar De Mascorro And Sketches Of The Friends Mexican Mission
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Author : Samuel Alexander Purdié
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
Memories Of Angela Aguilar De Mascorro And Sketches Of The Friends Mexican Mission written by Samuel Alexander Purdié and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Church history categories.
Borgata
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Author : Louis Ferrante
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2024-01-02
Borgata written by Louis Ferrante and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-02 with True Crime categories.
A riveting history of the Mafia from 1860s Sicily to 1960s America—as narrated by a former heist expert and Gambino family mobster. The mafia has long held a powerful sway over our collective cultural imagination. But how many of us truly understand how a clandestine Sicilian criminal organization came to exert its influence over nearly every level of American society? In Borgata: Rise of Empire, former mobster Louis Ferrante pulls back the curtain on the criminal organization that transformed America. From the potent political cauldron of nineteenth-century Sicily to New Orleans, New York and the gangster paradise of Las Vegas, Ferrante traces the social, economic, and political forces that powered the mafia’s unstoppable rise. Ferrante’s vivid portrayal of early American mobsters—Lucky Luciano, Vito Genovese, Frank Costello, and Meyer Lansky—fills in crucial gaps of the mafia narrative to deliver the most comprehensive account yet of the world’s most famous criminal fraternity. Borgata: Rise of Empire—the first in a three-volume epic history—is a groundbreaking achievement from a man who has seen it all from the inside. In this masterful accomplishment, Ferrante takes the reader from the mafia’s inauspicious beginnings to the height of their power as the most influential criminal network in the country.
Gangland Gotham
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Author : Allan R. May
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2009-08-12
Gangland Gotham written by Allan R. May and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Organized crime and the mob figures who run it have long captured the imagination of the American public, appearing since the early twentieth century as characters in a host of popular books, movies, and television programs. But often what the public knew of such figures and their criminal careers was as much myth as fact. This book offers highly readable, carefully researched biographies that dispel the the myths but preserve the fascination surrounding 10 infamous New York mob leaders of the twentieth century. Each in-depth biography will help interested readers understand how and why each of these men achieved special notariety within the world of organized crime. Each biography describes the early years of each man, assessing how he came to a criminal career; his rise to prominence within the mob, providing reaction from those who knew him and witnessed his actions; and the last years of his career, assessing why it ended as it did. Each biography is illustrated with a picture of its subject and concludes with a listing of additional information resources, both print and electronic. A detailed subject index provides further access to the large amount of information contained in each biography. A timeline allows readers to quickly and easily track the birth, death, and important events in the life of each mobster.