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1 online resource (xviii, 276 pages) : illustrations |
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Contents; Foreword xi; Acknowledgments xvii; Chapter One Little Caesar 1; Chapter Two Arrivals 15; Chapter Three Bootleg 29; Chapter Four Noble Experiment 39; Chapter Five Murder, Inc. 55; Chapter Six Clyde 71; Chapter Seven Checkers 97; Chapter Eight Pueblo 113; Chapter Nine Central City 127; Chapter Ten Rich and Famous 139; Chapter Eleven The Heights 153; Chapter Twelve 1953 167; Chapter Thirteen Double-crossed 183; Chapter Fourteen Chauncey, Paulie, and Eugene 197; Chapter Fifteen The Smaldone Women 211; Chapter Sixteen Recessional 229; Epilogue 241; Notes 256; Bibliography 264; Index 269 |
| Summary |
I never thought it would end.-Clyde Smaldone Started by Italian brothers from North Denver, the high-profile Smaldone crime syndicate began in the bootlegging days of the 1920s and flourished well into the late twentieth century. Connected to such notorious crime figures as Al Capone and Carlos Marcello, as well as to presidents and other politicians, charismatic Clyde Smaldone was the crime family's leader from the Prohibition era to the rise of gambling to the family's waning days. Uncovering the good and the bad, best-selling author Dick Kreck captures the complexity of Clyde, brother Check |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-268) and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Mafia -- United States -- Case studies
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Gangsters -- United States -- Biography
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Criminals -- United States -- Biography
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Organized crime -- United States -- Case studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Criminals
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Gangsters
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Mafia
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Organized crime
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United States
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Biographies
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Case studies
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Case studies.
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Biographies.
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Études de cas.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1555918298 |
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9781555918293 |
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1282468006 |
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9781282468009 |
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9786612468001 |
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6612468009 |
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