Meyer Lansky
โ Scribed by Robert Lacey
- Publisher
- Apostrophe Books Ltd
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 801 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1910167843
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โฆ Synopsis
First published in 1991 as Little Man: The Gangster Life of Meyer Lansky, the original text has been revised and updated for this edition by Robert Lacey, and much bonus material added.
"Daring and well written ... it would be criminal not to read it." People magazine
They called Meyer Lansky 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 II as Hyman Roth, dividing up Cuba with his fellow gangsters, and more recently in Boardwalk Empire as himself, played by Anatol Yusef.
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...
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