Gunmen And Gangsters

Author : Michael Schlossheimer
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476635463
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gunmen and Gangsters written by Michael Schlossheimer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gangsters such as Al Capone and Lucky Luciano were considered by many people to be the most exciting personalities of the 1920s and 1930s. The public was hungry for press coverage about these mysterious and dangerous men. Most reports about them were sketchy, as the reporters did not want to get on the bad side of the racket bosses. Hollywood’s response to the public’s fascination was to portray the lives of gangsters on the movie screen, using actors such as Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, and Edward G. Robinson. Perhaps surprisingly, these men received not-so-favorable reviews from the Academy Award voters, and as their popularity grew with the public, censorship dictated other actors be brought in to play the roles. That’s what this book is about—the personal and professional lives of William Bendix, Charles Bickford, Ward Bond, Broderick Crawford, Brian Donlevy, Paul Douglas, William Gargan, Barton MacLane, and Lloyd Nolan, second-string actors who replaced the big names and did a memorable job. A filmography is supplied for each actor.

Author : Ray Black
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 9780751535884
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gangsters and Gunmen written by Ray Black and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2004-03-04 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Gangland crime throughout the world featuring, prohibition, gambling, vice, drugs and above all, murder.

Author : Ben Black
Publisher : Milo Books Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shooters written by Ben Black and published by Milo Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last days of the 20th Century saw a major crackdown on Manchester's warring gangs. But soon new groups emerged, with names like the Young Gooch Crew, the Moss Side Bloods, the Old Trafford Crips, the Longsight Street Soldiers and the Fallowfield Mad Dogs. Younger and even more violent than their predecessors, they baited their rivals with explicit grime tracks and internet videos and unleashed a wave of bloodshed. SHOOTERS tells the story of these gangs and their various alliances, feuds and crimes. Using detailed court testimony and inside accounts, it gives a rare insight into the lethal conflict between the Pitt Bulls and the Longsight Crew; tells how two underworld armourers dubbed Bobby the Gun and the Merchant of Death supplied the gunmen with reactivated weapons; chronicles the infamous bloodbath at the Brass Handles pub in Salford, when two would-be assassins were themselves executed; and reveals the inner workings of the drug-dealing L$$ posse. It also recounts the story of Gooch leaders Colin Joyce and Stephen Amos, whose arrest for murder led to one of Britain’s biggest-ever trials; pieces together the events behind the notorious killings of teenagers such as Jessie James, Giuseppe Gregory and Louis Brathwaite; examines the methods of the audacious armed robbers of Salford; and describes the rise of lethal Asian gangs and their influence in the neighbouring towns of Bolton and Oldham. SHOOTERS is a powerful account of one city’s ongoing struggle with the law of the gun.

Author : United States. Commission on Industrial Relations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1212 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Industrial Relations written by United States. Commission on Industrial Relations and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rose Keefe
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1620452626
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guns and Roses written by Rose Keefe and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on information compiled from police and court documents, contemporary news accounts, and interviews with O'Banion's friends and associates, Guns and Roses traces O'Banion's rise from Illinois farm boy to the most powerful gang boss ...

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 964 pages
Book Rating : 4.K7/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court written by and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Salvatore Lupo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113749137X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Two Mafias written by Salvatore Lupo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A realistic understanding of the mafia must avoid depictions both of a monolithic organization and of localized, isolated groups. Here, renowned historian Salvatore Lupo analyzes the mafia as a network of varied relationships and institutions, the result of a complex cultural and social encounter that was shaped by multiple, diverse environments.

Author : Gregory A. Fournier
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1627877150
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elusive Purple Gang written by Gregory A. Fournier and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Elusive Purple Gang: Detroit's Kosher Nostra is a concise history of one of America's most notorious Prohibition gangs. The Burnstein brothers and their associates were the only Jewish gang in the United States to dominate the rackets of a major American city. From their meteoric rise to the top of Detroit's underworld to their ultimate demise, this is an episodic account of the Purple Gang's corrosive pursuit of power and wealth and their inevitable plunge towards self-destruction.

Author : Thomas Hunt
Publisher : Thomas Hunt
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gangsters of NYC's Lower East Side written by Thomas Hunt and published by Thomas Hunt. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalists Craig Thompson and Allen Raymond in 1940 wrote that “...the lower East Side of Manhattan in the first twenty years of the twentieth century was the greatest breeding ground for gunmen and racketeers, since risen to eminence, that this country has ever seen...” Conditions in the pre-Prohibition twentieth century Lower East Side certainly fueled an explosion in gangs and racketeering. Such underworld giants as Meyer Lansky, Louis “Lepke” Buchalter and Salvatore “Charlie Luciano” Lucania were products of that overcrowded and hard environment. But that was just a small part of the area’s underworld history. In this issue, Informer presents a collection of articles representing the seedy and bloody gangland history of the Lower East Side. Material spans many decades of Manhattan’s history. Related article subjects: ∙ End of the Whyos gang. ∙ Historic Photo: Bandits' Roost. ∙ John H. McGurk and Bowery's "Suicide Hall." ∙ The death and life of hoodlum/hero Monk Eastman. ∙ NYC's first Mafia boss? ∙ Italian gang chief with an Irish name: Paul Kelly. ∙ Sai Wing Mock and the New York "Tong Wars." ∙ Frank Lanza's New York firms may have been Mafia fronts. ∙ In search of "Johnny Spanish." ∙ Racketeering future was molded in young Meyer Lansky's neighborhood. ∙ "Death Avenue": Second Avenue, 1910-1924. ∙ 1964 narcotics report included mobster bios. In addition, the issue includes these articles: ∙ New facts about 1928 Mafia conventioneers. ∙ "Bill the Butcher" wasn't from the Five Points. ∙ New and recent true crime book releases. ∙ Looking back from 2023: 150, 100, 75, 50, 5 years ago. Contributors to this issue: Thomas Hunt, Justin Cascio, Patrick Downey, Michael O'Haire, Steve Turner, Matt Ghiglieri.

Author : David E. Ruth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226732176
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing the Public Enemy written by David E. Ruth and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly detailed account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone and other "invented" gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. The subject of innumerable newspaper and magazine articles, scores of novels, and hundreds of Hollywood movies, the gangster was a compelling figure for Americans preoccupied with crime and the social turmoil it symbolized. Ruth shows that the media gangster was less a reflection of reality than a projection created from Americans' values, concerns, and ideas about what would sell. We see efficient criminal executives demonstrating the multifarious uses of organization; dapper, big-spending gangsters highlighting the promises and perils of the emerging consumer society; and gunmen and molls guiding an uncertain public through the shifting terrain of modern gender roles. In this fascinating study, Ruth reveals how the public enemy provides a far-ranging critique of modern culture.