Mob: Two Hundred Years of Organized Crime in New York - Virgil Peterson - Paperback - REPRINT

This 545-page history details the way east-coast mobs have operated since their inception; through violence, corruption and bribery of politicians. Here is not only the entire chronology of New York organized crime, but also the stunning "rap sheets" on the hoods themselves; men such as Arthur Flegenheimer (Dutch Schultz), Abe (Bo) Weinberg, Owney Madden, Jack (legs) Diamond, Lepke Buchalter, lucky Luciano, Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky, Longy Zwillman, Waxey Gordon, Joe Adonis, Albert Anatastia, Arnold Rothstein, Willie Moretti, Bugsy Siegel, Tony Lucchese, Joe Bonanno, Carlo Gabino, Vito Genovese, Michael (Trigger Mike) Coppola, and a vast galaxy of other luminaries.You'll read the inside story of the famous barberchair murder of Albert Anastasia in 1957, and get the real story of the notorious Apalachin conference of top mobsters. And you'll also glimpse the shadowy, bloody, back-to-the-wall life of the present day mob families in and around New York.Peterson, Virgil is the author of 'Mob: Two Hundred Years of Organized Crime in New York - Virgil Peterson - Paperback - REPRINT' with ISBN 9780898031560 and ISBN 0898031567.