The Frank Costello Story
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The Frank Costello Story
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Author : Bill Brennan (Reporter)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
The Frank Costello Story written by Bill Brennan (Reporter) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with categories.
Top Hoodlum
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Author : Anthony M. DeStefano
language : en
Publisher: Citadel Press
Release Date : 2018-06-26
Top Hoodlum written by Anthony M. DeStefano and has been published by Citadel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-26 with True Crime categories.
The definitive book on the ultimate mob boss—featuring new FBI revelations, rare family photos, and never-before-published material. To authorities, Frank Costello was “The Prime Minister of the Underworld” and “one of the most powerful and influential Mafia leaders in the U.S.” To friends and associates, he was simply “Uncle Frank.” Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Anthony M. DeStefano sets out to answer who Frank Costello really was in this definitive portrait of one of the most fascinating figures in the annals of American crime . . . Using newly released FBI files, eyewitness accounts, and family mementos, Top Hoodlum takes you inside the Mafia that Frank Costello helped build from the ground up. These are the riveting stories and stunning revelations that have inspired American crime classics like The Godfather, Casino, Goodfellas, and The Sopranos. This is the man who made the Mafia such a powerful force in our nation’s history. The man who refused to admit his crimes long after he retired. This is Top Hoodlum. Praise for Anthony M. DeStefano and his books on the Mafia “Thrilling American crime writing.” —Jimmy Breslin on King of the Godfatherss “Terrific . . . A fitting end to the murderous story of the 1978 Lufthansa heist.” —Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy on The Big Heist “The best and last word on the subject . . . DeStefano brings the story to life.” —Jerry Capeci, creator of the website GangLandNews “DeStefano tells Costello’s story well.” —Kirkus Reviews “A master at cutting through the secrecy of the Mafia.” —Publishers Weekly
The Luciano Story
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Author : Sid Feder
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2016-10-21
The Luciano Story written by Sid Feder and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-21 with True Crime categories.
No gangster has ever been more powerful than Charles “Lucky” Luciano (1897-1962). By the mid-1920s, he had taken over the New York bordellos and was making more than a million dollars a year. In 1931 he engineered the murders of the two reigning New York crime bosses, Joe Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano, and quickly took over the entire New York crime racket. The Luciano Story is the definitive biography of this legendary gangster, based on years of research and dozens of interviews with Luciano himself and among other first-hand accounts. First published in 1954, this book authenticated, for the first time, the far-reaching and sinister operations of the international crime syndicate and its direction by the keenest criminal mastermind in American history.
The Lucky Luciano Story
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Author : Ovid Demaris
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2016-10-21
The Lucky Luciano Story written by Ovid Demaris and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-21 with True Crime categories.
CHARLES “LUCKY” LUCIANO was an Organization Man with a difference. The organization he belonged to was The Mafia—a natural setup for a vicious thug with unlimited ambition and a heart of ice. Murder by murder, rape by rape, he established the biggest chair of brothels ever seen in New York. Everything—everyone—he touched turned rotten. He knew he had it made when he had more cops on his payroll prostitutes. Pal of Al Capone, Frank Costello Buggsy Siegel, Albert Anastasia, Lucky became the absolute ruler of a private empire built on vice, corruption and murder. This is the Lucky Luciano story—brutal, shocking, with nothing left out.
Frank Costello
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Author : Ronald K. Fried
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2022-12-01
Frank Costello written by Ronald K. Fried and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-01 with Fiction categories.
As Frank Costello looks back over his life as head of the most powerful crime family in America, he doesn't focus on the triumphs of his bootlegging empire, his nationwide gambling network, or his de facto control of Tammany Hall. Instead, Costello—the politically connected "Prime Minister of the Underworld"—remembers the lies he's told, the mistakes he's made, and his fateful decision to testify before the televised Kefauver hearings investigating organized crime in America. The novel reaches its climax as Costello—in a naïve attempt to preserve the patina of respectability he's spent his life creating—tries to defend himself before senators out to expose the full extent of the Mafia's reach. The result is a humiliating, very public lesson about who holds the real power in America. This is an historically accurate work of fiction told in Costello's imagined, bitter, street-wise voice.
Uncle Frank
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Author : Leonard Katz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Uncle Frank written by Leonard Katz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Mafia categories.
Under The Clock
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Author : William Balsamo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Under The Clock written by William Balsamo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Black Hand (United States) categories.
This is the real story of the beginnings of the Mafia in the United States. It tells for the first time what actually happened as the control of the rackets - extortion, protection, carting and hauling, the cement industry, beer and liquor distributorships - and of the New York waterfront was wrested away from the Irish racketeers by the gang of Italian immigrants who called themselves."The Black Hand" and were under the total domination of Battista Balsamo, the original "Godfather". He appeared an honorable, reasonable, and just man. He was the vicious head of the Mob. Filled with rare photographs and documents, peopled with an extraordinary gallery of men and women of the infamous underground, written on ten years of solid research, Under the Clock recounts in painful detail the monumental gangland war that raged for five bloody years,punctuated by poison,knives, and guns, between the Irish "White Hand" and the Italian "Black Hand.". Here is the true story of the resultant Mafia empire - including its emperor, Al Capone - which was ultimately penetrated by the you, dedicated, ambitious New York D.A. - Tom Dewey.
Loyalty And Betrayal
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Author : Sidney Zion
language : en
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
Release Date : 1994
Loyalty And Betrayal written by Sidney Zion and has been published by Harper San Francisco this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Social Science categories.
From immigrant origins to absolute power, from Al Capone to John Gotti, this book explores a level of Mob influence that has touched every aspect of American life--at work, at home, at play, and in politics. It goes beyond the glamour of the casinos and horse racing to tell the controversial, compelling history. Companion to the four hour documentary to air on the Fox Network in August. 200 photos.
Frank Costello
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Author : George Wolf
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Frank Costello written by George Wolf and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Crime and criminals categories.
The Deadly Don
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Author : Anthony M. DeStefano
language : en
Publisher: Citadel Press
Release Date : 2021-05-25
The Deadly Don written by Anthony M. DeStefano and has been published by Citadel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Pulizter Prize-winning journalist Anthony M. DeStefano’s latest in-depth history of organized crime exposes the truth behind the mafia crew that took down John Gotti. THE BOSS OF BOSSES Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony M. DeStefano exposes the rise and fall of Vito Genovese in this first comprehensive biography of the legendary mafioso—from his childhood in Naples, Italy, and the beginnings of his bullet-ridden criminal career on lower Manhattan’s mean streets, through his self-exile in the mid-1930s back to his homeland where he ran a black market operation under the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini, and his return to New York where Genovese made a fortune as the head of an illegal narcotics empire. As a member of Giuseppe “Joe the Boss” Masseria’s gang in New York City, Genovese ran rackets before joining forces with Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky, and Bugsy Siegel as bootleggers during Prohibition. He helped orchestrate Masseria’s slaughter on behalf of Brooklyn crime lord Salvatore Maranzano, consolidating his position and power before ensuring Maranzano, too, was knocked off. For the next three decades, Vito Genovese—shrewd, merciless, and utterly savage—killed countless gangsters in his bid to become the capo di tutti i capi—boss of bosses—in the American Mafia. Don Vito would betray some of the mafia’s most notorious bosses, including Albert Anastasia and Frank Costello, to eventually seize control of the Luciano crime family, one that still bears the Genovese name today. Praise for Anthony M. DeStefano’s Gotti’s Boys “DeStefano explores John Gotti’s rise to the head of the Gambino family . . . Aficionados are sure to relish the finer, exhaustively researched details.” —Publishers Weekly “A thrilling ride . . . DeStefano has written another excellent biography of a memorable group of gangsters and an excellent addition to the history of the Teflon Don.” —Booklist