Jersey Boy

Author : Adeyinka Makinde
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781450206389
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jersey Boy written by Adeyinka Makinde and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALLY, THE TRUE STORY of the Mafia’s execution of Jersey City legend Frankie DePaula can be told: -Was his world title bout with Bob Foster fixed by the Mob? -Did the Mob kill Pat Amato, his first manager, in order to pave the way for him to sign with their front man Gary Garafola? -How did he come to be involved in a notorious heist of $80,000 worth of electrolytic copper? -Was his dalliance with the step-daughter of a high-ranking mobster the reason for his shooting? -Or did the Mob kill him for giving up information on their involvement in the copper theft? Although Frankie appeared to some to be a true life exemplar of a character from Dead End; a wild and unreconstructed deviant headed for disaster, his life is set against the backdrop of the oftentimes dysfunctional environs of Jersey City, for long the seat of power of an administration dominated for decades by Mayoral potentate Frank Hague and maligned by the corruption of local politicians and the increasing influence of organized crime. PRAISE FOR JERSEY BOY “The author tells it like it was...Anyone who was around boxing in those days or has any knowledge of what the sport was like in the 1960s and early 1970s should read this book. It’s worth every penny.” ---J. Russell Peltz, IBHOF inductee and noted Boxing Historian & Archivist "A brilliant biography...Makinde brings it all to life through meticulous research, painstaking chapter notes and a smooth, lyrical writing style." ---Murray Greig, The Edmonton Sun "It's a cracking read" ---Steve Bunce, BBC Radio London Boxing Hour Show "Makinde writes in elegant yet precise prose" ---eastsideboxing.com "A book worthy of a Hollywood encore" ---maxboxing.com

Author : Frankie Valli
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 148032325X
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jersey Boys (Songbook) written by Frankie Valli and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Easy Piano Vocal Selections). Easy piano arrangements of 15 tracks from the hit Broadway musical, including: Big Girls Don't Cry * Can't Take My Eyes off of You * December 1963 (Oh, What a Night) * My Boyfriend's Back * Rag Doll * Sherry * Walk like a Man * Working My Way Back to You * and more.

Author : Bob Gaudio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jersey Boys written by Bob Gaudio and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 20 vocal selections from the Broadway musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons. This is the story of how a group of blue-collar boys became the biggest American pop sensations of all time, selling over 175 million records worldwide.

Author : Thomas Giacomaro
Publisher : BenBella Books
ISBN 13 : 1944648038
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The King of Con written by Thomas Giacomaro and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Jersey boy with a knack for numbers, a gift for making people trust him, and an all-consuming hunger to rule the business world, Tom Giacomaro could convince anyone of anything. As a teenager, Tom Giacomaro began working in the mob-laden New Jersey trucking industry. A charming, brash-talking salesman with a genius-level IQ, he climbed the ranks and let his lust for money and relationships with New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Chicago crime families send him spiraling into a world of drugs and violence. And that's only the beginning. In The King of Con, Tom details how he hashes out a deal with the FBI, agreeing to become a crime informant in an effort to avoid jail time—only, he continues his high-finance, white-collar scheming, luring celebrities and other high-profile contacts to invest multimillions in his new business ventures. When it all comes crashing down, Tom is thrown in prison for over a decade, yet, even behind bars, he's able to get what he wants from anyone . . . and he eventually finds a way to get released early. Cowritten by journalist Natasha Stoynoff, The King of Con is the unforgettable true story about a man who became hooked on living life to thrilling and dangerous excess, until he was humbled by the FBI, by the US Attorney, and by life itself. Now, Tom is back in his old New Jersey neighborhood. His old business cronies and mob contacts are calling, his palms are itching to make billions again, and the US Attorney's office is watching. Will he stay on the straight and narrow, or will he steal back his crown of crime as the King of Con?

Author : Fred Berinato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781943401789
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I'm Just a Jersey Boy written by Fred Berinato and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoir of a baby boomer who grew up in New Jersey

Author : Sally Mott Freeman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501104144
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jersey Brothers written by Sally Mott Freeman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "They are three brothers, all navy men, who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter of three of World War II's most crucial moments. Bill is tapped by Franklin D. Roosevelt to run the first Map Room in Washington. Benny is the gunnery and antiaircraft officer on the USS Enterprise, one of the only ships to escape Pearl Harbor and, by the end of 1942, the last aircraft carrier left in the Pacific to defend against the Japanese. Barton, the youngest, gets a plum commission in the Navy Supply Corps because his mother wants him out of harm's way. But this protection plan backfires when Barton is sent to the Philippines and listed as missing-in-action after a Japanese attack. Now it is up to Bill and Benny to rescue him. Based on ten years of research drawn from archives around the world, interviews with fellow shipmates and POWs, and letters half-forgotten in basements, The Jersey Brothers whisks readers from America's front porches to Roosevelt's White House, from Pearl Harbor to Midway and Bataan, and from the Pacific battlefronts to the stately home of a fierce New Jersey mother. At its heart The Jersey Brothers is a family story, written by one of its own in intimate, novelistic detail. It is a remarkable tale of agony and triumph; of an ordinary young man who shows extraordinary courage as the enemy does everything short of killing him; and of brotherly love tested under the tortures of war."--Jacket.

Author : Robert Rudolph
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813521541
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boys from New Jersey written by Robert Rudolph and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive examination of how the federal government failed to successfully prosecute the Lucchese crime family.

Author : David Coté
Publisher : Broadway
ISBN 13 : 9780767927581
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jersey Boys written by David Coté and published by Broadway. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The companion to the musical "Jersey Boys" presents the story of four high-school dropouts from New Jersey who became one of the biggest American pop music phenomena of all time, and describes the evolution of the musical based on their lives.

Author : Marshall Brickman
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1458433145
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Addams Family (Songbook) written by Marshall Brickman and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Vocal Selections). The creepy and kooky Addams Family hit Broadway in April 2010 with this musical adaptation of the characters created by cartoonist Charles Addams in his single-panel gag cartoons for The New Yorker starting in 1938. This songbook features piano/vocal arrangements (with the melody in the piano part) for 14 musical numbers from the Tony Award-nominated show: The Addams Family Theme * Crazier Than You * Happy/Sad * In the Arms * Just Around the Corner * Let's Not Talk About Anything Else but Love * Live Before We Die * The Moon and Me * Morticia * One Normal Night * Pulled * Waiting * What If * When You're an Addams.

Author : Gerald Tomlinson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813520780
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murdered in Jersey written by Gerald Tomlinson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lindbergh kidnapping, the Dutch Schultz murder, the Hurricane Carter case, the Edgard Smith affair involving William F. Buckley, Jr., the slaying of the List family, the shooting of Trooper Philip Lamonaco, the contract killing of Maria Marshall, and the kidnapping and murder of Exxon executive Sidney Reso-all America followed with fascination these terrible crimes committed in New Jersey. These famous New Jersey cases--and fifty-two others, all front-page news in their day--are presented colorfully and concisely in Gerald Tomlinson's Murdered in Jersey, an illustrated look at homicide in the Garden State. For all true crime buffs in and out of New Jersey.