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Author:
Russo, Gus.
Title:
Supermob : how Sidney Korshak and his criminal associates became America's hidden power brokers / Gus Russo.
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Publisher:
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck,
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck,
Copyright Date:
2006
Description:
xvi, 623 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Korshak, Sidney Roy,--1907-1996.
Lawyers--Chicago.--Chicago.--Biography.
Lawyers--California.--Biography.
Organized crime--United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [587]-598) and index.
Contents:
Cast of characters -- The lawyer from Lawndale -- From Lawndale to the Seneca to the underworld -- Birds of a feather -- Kaddish for California -- The future is in real estate -- "Hell, that's what you had to do in those days to get by." -- Scenes from Hollywood, part one -- Jimmy, Bobby and Sidney -- Years in the desert -- The kingmakers : Paul, Lew and Ronnie in California -- The new frontier -- Bistro days -- "He could never walk away from those people." -- Scenes from Hollywood, part two -- "A sunny place for shady people" -- Coming under attack -- From Hoffa to Hollywood -- From Dutch sandwiches to Dutch Reagan -- Airing dirty laundry and laundering dirty money -- Pursued by the Fourth Estate -- The true untouchables -- Legacies.
ISBN:
9781582343891
1582343896
OCLC:
(OCoLC)69104280
LCCN:
2006015747
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

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