Description
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.
Author: Albert Fried
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 03/01/1994
Pages: 351
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.95h x 6.00w x 0.89d
ISBN13: 9780231096836
ISBN10: 0231096836
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Criminology
- Social Science | Minority Studies
- History | United States | 20th Century
Author: Albert Fried
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 03/01/1994
Pages: 351
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.95h x 6.00w x 0.89d
ISBN13: 9780231096836
ISBN10: 0231096836
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Criminology
- Social Science | Minority Studies
- History | United States | 20th Century
About the Author
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.