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Author:

Lieberman, Paul, 1949-

Title:

Gangster squad : covert cops, the mob, and the battle for Los Angeles / Paul Lieberman.

Edition:

Large print ed.

Publisher:

Thorndike Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

643 p. (large print), [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Cohen, Mickey,--1914-1976.
Los Angeles (Calif.).--Police Dept.--History--20th century.
Gangsters--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
Organized crime--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

Summary:

A full decade before J. Edgar Hoover's FBI even acknowledged the existence of the Mafia, the Los Angeles Police Department launched the real-life Gangster Squad - eight men who met covertly and slept with Tommy guns while combating what city fathers saw as an "invasion of undesirables." But for two cops, Sgt. Jack O'Mara and Sgt. Jerry Wooters, all that mattered was nailing one strutting little gangster named Mickey Cohen.

ISBN:

1410453448 (hbk.)
9781410453440 (hbk.)

LCCN:

2012034542

Locations:

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)