Mob Murder Of America S Greatest Gambler
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Mob Murder Of America S Greatest Gambler
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Author : Herbert Marynell
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2013-03-11
Mob Murder Of America S Greatest Gambler written by Herbert Marynell and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-11 with Businessmen categories.
Chronicles the rags-to-riches story of Ray Ryan, the Evansville, Ind., oil millionaire, who went on to gamble with H.L. Hunt and other high rollers, hobnob with celebrities in his El Mirador Hotel in Palm Springs, develop the Mount Kenya Safari Club with actor William Holden and a Swiss banker, only to fall victim to a car bomb on a beautiful fall day in 1970s Evansville.
Lions In Our Garden
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Author : Pamela Goodman
language : en
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Release Date : 2022-09-02
Lions In Our Garden written by Pamela Goodman and has been published by Dorrance Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Lions in Our Garden: A Biographical Report of the Adventures and Thrilling Life of Pamela Goodman By: Pamela Goodman This book is Ms. Goodman’s memoir. She hopes that it will appeal to a diverse audience. This work details her experiences with travel, various culture, romance, and adventure. It involves sadness and joy, verbal and physical abuse, and her life living and visiting twenty different countries. Most of all, she hopes her book will illustrate the wonder of beautiful Africa and its people.
Vegas And The Mob
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Author : Al W Moe
language : en
Publisher: Al W Moe
Release Date : 2017-02-16
Vegas And The Mob written by Al W Moe and has been published by Al W Moe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-16 with History categories.
Las Vegas was the Mob's greatest venture and most spectacular success, and through 40 years of frenzy, murder, deceit, scams, and skimming, the FBI listened on phone taps and did virtually nothing to stop the fun. This is the truth about the Mob's control of the casinos in Vegas like you've never heard it before, from start to finish. Two of the nation's most powerful crime family bosses went to prison in the 1930's: Al Capone and Lucky Luciano. Frank Nitti took over the Chicago Outfit, while Frank Costello ran things for the Luciano Family. Both men were influenced by their bosses from prison, and both sent enough gangsters into the streets to influence loan sharking, extortion, union control, and drug sales. Bugsy Siegel worked for both groups, handling a string of murders and opening up gaming on the west coast, and that included Las Vegas, an oasis of sin in the middle of the desert - and it was legal. Most of it. The FBI watched as the Mob took control of casino after casino, killed off the competition, and stole enough money to bribe their way to respectability back home. By the 1950's, nearly every major crime family had a stake in a Las Vegas casino. Some did better than others. Casino owners watched-over their profits while competing crime families eyed each other's success like jealous lovers. Murder often followed.
Casino
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Author : Nicholas Pileggi
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2016-10-18
Casino written by Nicholas Pileggi and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-18 with True Crime categories.
The true story behind the Martin Scorsese film: A “riveting . . . account of how organized crime looted the casinos they controlled” (Kirkus Reviews). Focusing on Chicago bookie Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal and his partner, Anthony Spilotro, and drawing on extensive, in-depth interviews, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Mafia classic Wiseguy—basis for the film Goodfellas—Nicholas Pileggi reveals how the pair worked together to oversee Las Vegas casino operations for the mob. He unearths how Teamster pension funds were used to take control of the Stardust and Tropicana and how Spilotro simultaneously ran a crew of jewel thieves nicknamed the “Hole in the Wall Gang.” For years, these gangsters kept a stranglehold on Sin City’s brightly lit nightspots, skimming millions in cash for their bosses. But the elaborate scheme began to crumble when Rosenthal’s disproportionate ambitions drove him to make mistakes. Spilotro made an error of his own, falling for his partner’s wife, a troubled showgirl named Geri. It would all lead to betrayal, a wide-ranging FBI investigation, multiple convictions, and the end of the Mafia’s longstanding grip on the multibillion-dollar gaming oasis in the midst of the Nevada desert. Casino is a journey into 1970s Las Vegas and a riveting nonfiction account of the world portrayed in the Martin Scorsese film of the same name, starring Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, and Sharon Stone. A story of adultery, murder, infighting, and revenge, this “fascinating true-crime Mob history” is a high-stakes page-turner (Booklist).
The Godfather Of Poker
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Author : Doyle Brunson
language : en
Publisher: Cardoza
Release Date : 2012-05-29
The Godfather Of Poker written by Doyle Brunson and has been published by Cardoza this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Fascinating true-life adventure of an American treasure, a man who bluffed death, survived the mean streets of Fort Worth and mob-run Las Vegas, and bet millions of dollars on everything from poker to golf, to become a two-time world champion poker player. The story of Doyle Brunson, an American treasure and the greatest poker player of all time, is one for the ages. It’s a story of guts and glory, of good luck and bad, of triumph and unspeakable tragedy, of courage and grace. He has survived whippings, gun fights, stabbings, mobsters (the real-life ones portrayed in the movie Casino), murderers, and a death sentence when, riddled with incurable cancer, he was given months to live by doctors who told him his hand was played out. Apparently, fate had never played poker with Brunson—he lived. Of a group of 32 men he played poker with in the tough alleys of Texas, just he and one other survived the treacherous perils of that life. A master of the bluff, his most outrageous bluff came after being pistol-whipped and told he’s going to die with a gunman pointing a pistol at his forehead. Again, he lived. He’s gambled for millions of dollars—and with his life against the real-life mobsters and killers made famous in the movie Casino—and was the biggest sports bettor in the world with a reputation of betting enormous sums of money on just about anything. Doyle has not only made more money at golf than anyone else until Tiger Woods came along, he once bet one million dollars on a single hole—that, when he was virtually wheelchair-bound and could barely stand. He’s been hard-up flat broke more times than he’s got fingers and has won millions of dollars just as many times. Brunson has seen it all: from the athletic dreams and a leg shattered by a freak injury which waylaid his path to the NBA (he was drafted by the Lakers), to the devastating death of his first-born daughter, to outrageous exploits like trying to discover Noah’s Ark and raise the Titanic. Doyle’s rollercoaster of a life defines the saying: Truth is stranger than fiction. Twice a winner of the prestigious World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, he's won millions and lost millions—sometimes in seconds—but decidedly more of the former than the latter. Brunson can still be found playing in the highest stakes poker games in the world, often with as much as one million dollars in front of him. To every one of the 250 million people worldwide who play poker each year, Doyle Brunson, is the legendary “Babe Ruth of Poker”—the greatest gambler and poker player who has ever lived.
Gangsters To Governors
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Author : David Clary
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2017-10-30
Gangsters To Governors written by David Clary and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-30 with Business & Economics categories.
Winner of the 2018 Current Events/Social Change Book Award from the Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner of the 2018 Bronze Current Events Book Award from the Independent Publisher Book Awards Generations ago, gambling in America was an illicit activity, dominated by gangsters like Benny Binion and Bugsy Siegel. Today, forty-eight out of fifty states permit some form of legal gambling, and America’s governors sit at the head of the gaming table. But have states become addicted to the revenue gambling can bring? And does the potential of increased revenue lead them to place risky bets on new casinos, lotteries, and online games? In Gangsters to Governors, journalist David Clary investigates the pros and cons of the shift toward state-run gambling. Unearthing the sordid history of America’s gaming underground, he demonstrates the problems with prohibiting gambling while revealing how today’s governors, all competing for a piece of the action, promise their citizens payouts that are rarely delivered. Clary introduces us to a rogue’s gallery of colorful characters, from John “Old Smoke” Morrissey, the Irish-born gangster who built Saratoga into a gambling haven in the nineteenth century, to Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino magnate who has furiously lobbied against online betting. By exploring the controversial histories of legal and illegal gambling in America, he offers a fresh perspective on current controversies, including bans on sports and online betting. Entertaining and thought-provoking, Gangsters to Governors considers the past, present, and future of our gambling nation. Author's website (http://www.davidclaryauthor.com)
Death Gamble
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Author : Guillermo Enrique Barahona Chinchilla
language : en
Publisher: Guillermo E. Barahona C.
Release Date : 2014-03-12
Death Gamble written by Guillermo Enrique Barahona Chinchilla and has been published by Guillermo E. Barahona C. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-12 with Fiction categories.
Lights, parties, gambling, sin. All describe to the average person the grand city of Las Vegas. But underneath all the glamour, a nameless evil roams freely with no hint of its existence. Enter FBI Special Agent Charles Greyson. A talented young detective that stumbles upon this evil while investigating the murder of a rising crooked accountant in Los Angeles. The case pits him against conspiracies, cold hearted killers, traitors, and much more as he goes “all in” when dealing with the criminal underworld on this Death Gamble.
Contract On America
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Author : David E. Scheim
language : en
Publisher: SP Books
Release Date : 1988
Contract On America written by David E. Scheim and has been published by SP Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
Presents evidence of long-suspected Mafia culpability in the murder of John F. Kennedy.
Hotel Employees Restaurant Employees International Union
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Hotel Employees Restaurant Employees International Union written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with categories.
Killing The Mob
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Author : Bill O'Reilly
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2021-05-04
Killing The Mob written by Bill O'Reilly and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-04 with History categories.
Instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller! In the tenth book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard take on their most controversial subject yet: The Mob. Killing the Mob is the tenth book in Bill O'Reilly's #1 New York Times bestselling series of popular narrative histories, with sales of nearly 18 million copies worldwide, and over 320 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. O’Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in the United States, and expertly plumb the history of this nation’s most notorious serial robbers, conmen, murderers, and especially, mob family bosses. Covering the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, O’Reilly and Dugard trace the prohibition-busting bank robbers of the Depression Era, such as John Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby-Face Nelson. In addition, the authors highlight the creation of the Mafia Commission, the power struggles within the “Five Families,” the growth of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, the mob battles to control Cuba, Las Vegas and Hollywood, as well as the personal war between the U.S. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and legendary Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. O’Reilly and Dugard turn these legendary criminals and their true-life escapades into a read that rivals the most riveting crime novel. With Killing the Mob, their hit series is primed for its greatest success yet.