Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America

Name: Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America
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ISBN: 9780030213717

ISBN-10: 0030213711

ISBN-13: 9780030213717

Edition: N/A

Authors: Albert Fried

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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.

Book details

Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.650
Language: English

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.



Introduction: Some Questions of Motive and Method


The Old Neighborhood


The Mugwumps and the Jews


Breaking Out


Lepke's Rise: The Chronicles of Labor


Lepke's Fall: The Chronicles of Thomas E. Dewey


The Worlds of Meyer Lansky


Afterword to the Morningside Edition


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index