Little Man : Meyer Lansky & the Gangster Life / SIGNED / Robert Lacey Hardcover

Description: Condition: Good. SIGNED! Not personalized (See Photos)! Inscribed. Packed in a BOX with cardboard backing and padding. (See Photos!) Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free. Dust Jacket: clean, bright, bumping to edges. Same or next day shipping (weekdays and Saturdays)! Ships from California. ABOUT THIS: They called him the Godfather of the Godfathers, the Chairman of the Board of the National Crime Syndicate, the Mafia's banker. They credited him with a personal fortune of $300 million, with having said "We're bigger than U.S. Steel." he was portrayed on the screen in The Godfather, Part 11 as Hyman Roth, dividing up Cuba with his fellow gangsters. If, in the mythology of organized crime, Al Capone symbolized the crude menace of the machine gun and the baseball bat, Meyer Lansky stood for the brains, the sophistication, the hot money, the sheer cleverness of it all. And yet, when it came down to it, no law enforcement official in sixty years could find much to pin on the supposed boss of bosses, and within a few years of Lansky's death, his crippled son was living on welfare. Little Man is a book about organized crime unlike any other yet written. In this brilliant biography and social history, Robert Lacey separates the strands of fact and legend in Meyer Lansky's career, revealing a truth about the gangster life in America that is far more fascinating and dramatic than fiction. A Jewish immigrant from Russia, Lansky broke into a life of crime running crap games and acting as a shtarke, a strong-arm man for Jewish and Italian gamblers on the Lower Last Side of New York. Teaming up with his pals Lucky Luciano and Bugsy Siegel, he graduated to bootlegging. Clever Meyer became the master of the "share-out," keeping all the figures

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