Authors: Albert Fried
ISBN-13: 9780231096836, ISBN-10: 0231096836
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date Published: January 1994
Edition: 2nd Edition
Albert Fried teaches American Studies at SUNY Purchase. He is the editor of Socialism in America: From the Shakers to the Third International, and edited with Ronald Sanders a revised edition of Socialist Thought: A Documentary History, both available from Columbia University Press.
This book tracks the rise and fall of an underworld culture that bred some of America's greatest racketeers, bootleggers, gamblers, and professional killers, examining the careers of such high-profile figures as Meyer Lansky and Benjamin Bugsy Siegel.
Reprint of the Holt, Rinehart, and Winston work originally published in 1980. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Introduction: Some Questions of Motive and Method | ||
1 | The Old Neighborhood | 1 |
2 | The Mugwumps and the Jews | 44 |
3 | Breaking Out | 89 |
4 | Lepke's Rise: The Chronicles of Labor | 129 |
5 | Lepke's Fall: The Chronicles of Thomas E. Dewey | 175 |
6 | The Worlds of Meyer Lansky | 229 |
Afterword to the Morningside Edition | 287 | |
Notes | 295 | |
Bibliography | 321 | |
Acknowledgments | 331 | |
Index | 333 |