| #122027 in Books | Cohen, Rich | 1999-04-20 | 1999-04-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.98 x.62 x5.14l,.62 | File type: PDF | 304 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| My favorite book about Murder Inc|By Luna_Fae1985|This has become my favorite book about Murder Inc. I can hardly put it down. I like how the author humanizes the gangsters and shows aspects of their personalities that were not discussed in Turkus and Feder's book.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting Story|B|.com |When we think gangster, hood, or wiseguy, we often associate these characters with such names as Capone, Luciano, or even Corleone. However, when organized crime reared its ugly head in the late 1920s in Brooklyn, at the foundation were men like Meyer Lan
In an L.A. delicatessen, a group of Brooklyn natives gets together to discuss basketball, boxing, the weather back east, and the Jewish gangsters of yesteryear. Meyer Lansky. Bugsy Siegel. Louis Lepke, the self-effacing mastermind of Murder, Inc. Red Levine, the Orthodox hit man who refused to kill on the Sabbath. Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, who looked like a mama's boy but once buried a rival alive. These are just some of the vibrant, vicious characters Rich Cohen's father r...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Tough Jews : Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams | Rich Cohen. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
