The Luciano Story - Brossura

Feder, Sid

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0306805928 ISBN 13: 9780306805929

Casa editrice: Da Capo Press, 1994

Riassunto

No gangster has ever been more powerful than Charles "Lucky" Luciano (1897-1962). By the mid-1920s, he had taken over the New York bordellos and was making more than a million dollars a year. In 1931 he engineered the murders of the two reigning New York crime bosses, Joe Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano, and quickly took over the entire New York crime racket. Now Luciano was the Boss of Bosses, the undisputed leader of the National Crime Syndicate which he had established, along with Meyer Lansky, Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, Joe Adonis, and Frank Costello, in the early 1930s. His fall came in 1936, when he was indicted on ninety counts of extortion and direction of harlotry. But in 1945 he was released in return for his cooperation with the U.S. Navy during World War II. He spent the rest of his life in Italy, where he ran the International Crime Syndicate, shipping millions of dollars worth of heroin into the U.S. The Luciano Story is the definitive biography of this legendary gangster, based on years of research and dozens of interviews with Luciano himself and among other firsthand accounts. First published in 1954 but long out of print, this book authenticated, for the first time, the far-reaching and sinister operations of the international crime syndicate, International, and its direction by the keenest criminal mastermind in American history.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Sid Feder was a veteran journalist.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Da Capo Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0306805928
• ISBN 13: 9780306805929
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336