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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In a brief life that led to a violent end, Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel (1906-1947) rose from desperate poverty to ill-gotten riches, from an early-twentieth-century family of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side to a kingdom of his own making in Las Vegas. In this captivating portrait, author Michael Shnayerson sets out not to absolve Bugsy Siegel but rather to understand him in all his complexity. Through the 1920s, 1930s, and most of...
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In 1977, Wayne "Big Chuck" Bradshaw was Jersey tough. He was a member of the outlaw Pagans bike gang, a One Percenter, and had earned his colors in a world of boozing, bloody bar fights, and high-stakes crime. But after getting too close to extreme violence, Bradshaw made the life-threatening decision to change his path. The toughness Bradshaw used to survive the biker life led him to a distinguished and heroic career as an undercover narcotics officer...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Growing up in South Boston, Sean Scott Hicks was running jobs for the Irish mob before his voice changed. Mistreated by his drug-addled mother, Hicks found sanctuary with his adoptive family of felonious uncles -- known to law enforcement officials as the Winter Hill Gang. These crooks knew where all the bodies were buried -- because they'd done the burying -- but they also looked out for young Sean. Even the notorious gangster known worldwide as...
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