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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781451642872
- Book Title
- Sinatra Club : My Life inside the New York Mafia
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publisher
- Gallery Books
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, True Crime
- Topic
- Personal Memoirs, General, Organized Crime, Criminals & Outlaws
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Item Weight
- 21.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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In the bestselling tradition of Wiseguy comes a mobster's behind-the-scenes look at how drugs and greed and the decline of traditional family values brought down an American institution--the New York Mafia. The Mob was the biggest, richest business in America--too dangerous and too deadly to fail. Until it was destroyed from within by drugs, greed, and the decline of its traditional crime Family values. And by guys like Sal Polisi. He was born in Brooklyn--the same place that spawned Murder, Inc., Al Capone, and John Gotti, the future Mob godfather who became his friend. Polisi was raised on a family legacy that led him into the life he loved as a member of the Colombos, one of the New York Mob's feared Five Families, and came of age when the Mafia was at the height of its vast wealth and power. Known by his Mob name, Sally Ubatz ("Crazy Sally"), he ran an illegal after-hours gambling den, The Sinatra Club, that was a magic kingdom of crime and a hangout for up-and-coming mobsters like Gotti and the three wiseguys immortalized in Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas--Henry Hill, Jimmy Burke, and Tommy DeSimone. For Polisi, the nonstop thrills of glory days spent robbing banks, hijacking trucks, pulling daring heists--and getting away with it all, thanks to cops and public servants corrupted by Mob money--were fleeting. When he was busted for drug trafficking, and already sickened by the bloodbath that engulfed the Mob as it teetered toward extinction, he flipped and became one of a breed he had loathed all his life--a rat. In this riveting, pulse-pounding, and, at times, darkly hilarious first-person chronicle of his brazen crimes, wild sexual escapades, and personal tragedies, Polisi tells his story of life inside the New York Mob in a voice straight from the streets. With shocking candor, he draws on a hard-won knowledge of Mob history to paint a neverbefore- seen picture of the inner workings of the Mob and the larger-than-life characters who populated a once extensive and secret underworld that, thanks to guys like him, no longer exists. *** I was always a street guy. I was into robbing and stealing and gambling and loan sharking. I wasn't involved in the bigmoney sit-downs, the labor racketeering and construction company shakedowns, the Garment District and garbage and cement company kickbacks. . . . For guys like me and Fox, my blood brother and crime partner, the thing we loved about being in that life was the action, the excitement. . . .We were in it for the money, sure. But it was the danger, the thrills that made the life of crime something special. A guy like John Gotti was different. He was far more ambitious than me and Fox. He wasn't just in it for the rush and the riches. He wanted the power and the glory. John Gotti's tragedy, if you can call it that, was that he was born too late for the old-school gangster crown that he craved. He began his rise as the Mob was beginning to crumb≤ by the time he got to the top, the bottom had dropped out. From the beginning, John was charismatic and smart. He just wasn't cut out to be godfather. Once he became boss, he drove the bus right off the bridge. Or maybe it was the bus that drove him. Either way, I watched him go. Here's how it all happened.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Gallery Books
ISBN-10
1451642873
ISBN-13
9781451642872
eBay Product ID (ePID)
120743079
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sinatra Club : My Life inside the New York Mafia
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, General, Organized Crime, Criminals & Outlaws
Publication Year
2012
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, True Crime
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hv6452.N7p65 2012
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Content Package
Reviews
"Fascinating….In addition to an exhilarating trip though Italian-American Mafia history, Polisi's text doubles as a heartfelt memoir, wherein he candidly expounds on the pain of neglecting his family and the devastating losses that eventually impelled him to leave "The Life" behind and testify against his former colleagues." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Brassy….Evocative….An audacious memoir unveiling the machinations of the mob." - Kirkus Reviews, "Fascinating....In addition to an exhilarating trip though Italian-American Mafia history, Polisi's text doubles as a heartfelt memoir, wherein he candidly expounds on the pain of neglecting his family and the devastating losses that eventually impelled him to leave "The Life" behind and testify against his former colleagues." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Brassy....Evocative....An audacious memoir unveiling the machinations of the mob." -- Kirkus Reviews, Mafia memoirs are well-trod ground, but Polisi's personal focus will engage readers….like Henry Hill, the famous subject of the genre classic Wiseguy , he has a sort of disreputably-likable quality about him. For fans of inside-organized-crime books, this one's a definite must-read., "Mafia memoirs are well-trod ground, but Polisi's personal focus will engage readers….like Henry Hill, the famous subject of the genre classic Wiseguy , he has a sort of disreputably-likable quality about him. For fans of inside-organized-crime books, this one's a definite must-read." - Booklist, "Fascinating....In addition to an exhilarating trip though Italian-American Mafia history, Polisi's text doubles as a heartfelt memoir, wherein he candidly expounds on the pain of neglecting his family and the devastating losses that eventually impelled him to leave "The Life" behind and testify against his former colleagues." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Brassy....Evocative....An audacious memoir unveiling the machinations of the mob." - Kirkus Reviews, Mafia memoirs are well-trod ground, but Polisis personal focus will engage readers.like Henry Hill, the famous subject of the genre classic Wiseguy , he has a sort of disreputably-likable quality about him. For fans of inside-organized-crime books, this ones a definite must-read. Booklist, Fascinating.In addition to an exhilarating trip though Italian-American Mafia history, Polisi's text doubles as a heartfelt memoir, wherein he candidly expounds on the pain of neglecting his family and the devastating losses that eventually impelled him to leave "The Life" behind and testify against his former colleagues. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Brassy.Evocative.An audacious memoir unveiling the machinations of the mob. Kirkus Reviews, "Fascinating….In addition to an exhilarating trip though Italian-American Mafia history, Polisi's text doubles as a heartfelt memoir, wherein he candidly expounds on the pain of neglecting his family and the devastating losses that eventually impelled him to leave "The Life" behind and testify against his former colleagues.", "Fascinating....In addition to an exhilarating trip though Italian-American Mafia history, Polisi's text doubles as a heartfelt memoir, wherein he candidly expounds on the pain of neglecting his family and the devastating losses that eventually impelled him to leave "The Life" behind and testify against his former colleagues." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Brassy....Evocative....An audacious memoir unveiling the machinations of the mob." -- Kirkus Reviews, Mafia memoirs are well-trod ground, but Polisi's personal focus will engage readers….like Henry Hill, the famous subject of the genre classic Wiseguy , he has a sort of disreputably-likable quality about him. For fans of inside-organized-crime books, this one's a definite must-read. - Booklist, "Mafia memoirs are well-trod ground, but Polisi's personal focus will engage readers....like Henry Hill, the famous subject of the genre classic Wiseguy , he has a sort of disreputably-likable quality about him. For fans of inside-organized-crime books, this one's a definite must-read." -- Booklist, Fascinating….In addition to an exhilarating trip though Italian-American Mafia history, Polisi's text doubles as a heartfelt memoir, wherein he candidly expounds on the pain of neglecting his family and the devastating losses that eventually impelled him to leave "The Life" behind and testify against his former colleagues. - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Brassy….Evocative….An audacious memoir unveiling the machinations of the mob. - Kirkus Reviews, "Mafia memoirs are well-trod ground, but Polisi's personal focus will engage readers....like Henry Hill, the famous subject of the genre classic Wiseguy , he has a sort of disreputably-likable quality about him. For fans of inside-organized-crime books, this one's a definite must-read." - Booklist
Copyright Date
2012
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2012-000610
Dewey Decimal
364.1092 B
Dewey Edition
23
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