Johnny Torrio

Author : Carl Sifakis
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0816069891
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mafia Encyclopedia written by Carl Sifakis and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 500 alphabetical entries provide information on the people, places and events associated with the Mafia.

Author : John J. McPhaul
Publisher : New Rochelle, N.Y : Arlington House
ISBN 13 : 9780870000966
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Johnny Torrio written by John J. McPhaul and published by New Rochelle, N.Y : Arlington House. This book was released on 1970 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joe Torrence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781777095604
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poison Of Money written by Joe Torrence and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poison Of Money book addresses a struggle that virtually anyone can identify with: Our obsession with and awe of the rich and powerful vs. spiritual teachings that warn against the Seven Deadly Sins including Greed and the Pleasures of the Flesh. This book exposes the far-reaching repercussions of money and its deadly venom. Money. Society's barometer for success. Your ticket to a life of luxury, power and the pleasures of the flesh. How could money possibly have a poisonous side? To tell this story, we are transported back in time to a place where few have ever been allowed entry: For the first time ever, a family member takes us behind the scenes and into the personal life of one of the most powerful men of the 20th century, Johnny Torrio. Joseph, a typical teenager living in Montréal, is captivated by the American Dream of riches and power. Yet, he struggles with repeated warnings from his parents and his religion about money's evil side. He inadvertently discovers a newspaper clipping that reveals a dark family secret. To Joseph's astonishment, Johnny Torrio, once Al Capone's boss, was his great uncle. This mind-boggling find ignites an obsession for the truth. Was his great uncle an incredible success story or one of America's worst criminals? Stonewalled by his parents' silence, Joseph's quest leads him to Tina, an elderly aunt. A fact-finding mission becomes an epic family journey that spans decades and crosses continents. He comes of age when faced with disturbing insights into how the Poison of Money has spread throughout the veins of society. The poison is not only in society at large, but has hit closer to home. He also discovers Torrio's lifelong obsession to reunite with his only blood sister, Marietta (Joseph's Grandmother). This story introduces Torrio's sister to the world. Greed blocks this reunion. Unimaginable curses plague the family. Joseph makes the eerie analogy to the curses of the Pharaoh in "The Ten Commandments." Except that there are only nine curses in the Torrio saga. This is where the story should end with a grown-up Joseph reflecting on the relevance between the 9 curses that plagued the Torrios and The Poison of Money. Except there is a 10th curse... Don't be shocked if The Poison of Money takes root in your family tree...

Author : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439128456
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capone written by Laurence Bergreen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant history of Prohibition and its most notorious gangster, acclaimed biographer Laurence Bergreen takes us to the gritty streets of Chicago where Al Capone forged his sinister empire. Bergreen shows the seedy and glamorous sides of the age, the rise of Prohibition, the illicit liquor trade, the battlefield that was Chicago. Delving beyond the Capone mythology. Bergreen finds a paradox: a coldblooded killer, thief, pimp, and racketeer who was also a devoted son and father; a self-styled Robin Hood who rose to the top of organized crime. Capone is a masterful portrait of an extraordinary time and of the one man who reigned supreme over it all, Al Capone.

Author : William A. Cook
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786436522
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King of the Bootleggers written by William A. Cook and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-05-07 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a pharmacist turned lawyer turned master prohibition era bootlegger, George Remus is now remembered as one of the most notorious figures of the American prohibition. Even though he was a lifelong teetotaler, Remus built one of the nation's largest illegal liquor empires with little regard to disguises or secrecy. This biography tells the complete story of Remus' private life and public persona, focusing especially on the turbulent rise and fall of his bootlegging kingdom. It begins with an overview of Remus' early life and careers in pharmacy and law, and covers his bootlegging career, including his overwhelmingly successful early business ventures, his 1922 bootlegging conviction, his murder of wife Imogene (after she had a well-publicized affair with prohibition agent Franklin Dodge), and Remus' subsequent trial for her murder.

Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2208 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 2208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1756 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 1756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1760 pages
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Download or read book Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce: pt. 1-1A. Florida written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leonardo Guisieppi
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483450422
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's First and Only King written by Leonardo Guisieppi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centuries ago the fledgling United States of America broke away from England because they did not want to be ruled by a king. Centuries later with the advent of prohibition they got one anyway: his name was Al Capone. Al became a king because he was able to succeed where other gangsters could not. By thinking and acting outside the box, he owed this to his father. Whereas other gangsters were motherland exclusive; Germans with Germans, Irish with Irish, and Italians with Italians. The lessons that Al learned was that every man, men of all walks of life needed and wanted haircuts. That greed was pretty much Universal, Universal indeed. The kind of money Al was generating at his enterprises per brewery would be very respectable, more than respectable these days. Growing up in a poor neighborhood you would see no doctors, no lawyers, no business executives but you did see gangsters being the role models of the young people. Gangsters wearing hi

Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447238915
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maestro written by John Gardner and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Passau is America’s greatest living orchestral conductor, a legendary, world-acclaimed artist whose ninetieth birthday will be marked by a glittering celebratory concert at New York’s Lincoln Center. But a double shadow hangs over the event: Passau has recently been accused of spying for Hitler and, worse, the British Secret Intelligence Service have now linked his name to KGB clandestine operations in the USA during the Cold War. The Maestro agrees to be interrogated, but only after the concert. British Intelligence call in Big Herbie Kruger to question the Maestro, and thanks to the once-famous agent-runner Passau survives an assassination attempt in his moment of glory. Still a target, he now insists on dealing only with Kruger, who desperately seeks a safe-house to conduct the debriefing. As he grapples with the elusive truth about the conductor – from the man’s first memories of his Bavarian village, to his adventures as a young immigrant in New York, his experiences in Capone’s Chicago and his ruthless rise to fame and fortune – Herbie Kruger finds himself ensnared in the Maestro’s dangerous secrets and deceits.