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- 2012000610 abstract "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. Born in Brooklyn, Polisi was raised on a family legacy 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. He ran an after-hours gambling den, The Sinatra Club, a hangout for up-and-coming mobsters like the three wiseguys immortalized in Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas. For Polisi, the thrills of robbing banks, hijacking trucks, pulling daring heists--and getting away with it all, thanks to corrupt cops--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. Here, Polisi paints a never-before-seen picture of the inner workings of a once extensive and secret underworld that, thanks to guys like him, no longer exists.-- Source other than Library of Congress.".
- 2012000610 contributor B12427469.
- 2012000610 contributor B12427470.
- 2012000610 created "c2012.".
- 2012000610 date "2012".
- 2012000610 date "c2012.".
- 2012000610 dateCopyrighted "c2012.".
- 2012000610 description "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. Born in Brooklyn, Polisi was raised on a family legacy 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. He ran an after-hours gambling den, The Sinatra Club, a hangout for up-and-coming mobsters like the three wiseguys immortalized in Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas. For Polisi, the thrills of robbing banks, hijacking trucks, pulling daring heists--and getting away with it all, thanks to corrupt cops--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. Here, Polisi paints a never-before-seen picture of the inner workings of a once extensive and secret underworld that, thanks to guys like him, no longer exists.-- Source other than Library of Congress.".
- 2012000610 extent "xiv, 386 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- 2012000610 identifier "9781451642872 (hardcover)".
- 2012000610 identifier "9781451642919 (e-book)".
- 2012000610 identifier "9781451643169 (mass market pbk.)".
- 2012000610 issued "2012".
- 2012000610 issued "c2012.".
- 2012000610 language "eng".
- 2012000610 publisher "New York : Gallery Books,".
- 2012000610 spatial "New York (State) New York".
- 2012000610 subject "364.1092 B 23".
- 2012000610 subject "Gambling and crime New York (State) New York Biography.".
- 2012000610 subject "HV6452.N7 P65 2012".
- 2012000610 subject "Mafia New York (State) New York Biography.".
- 2012000610 subject "Organized crime New York (State) New York Biography.".
- 2012000610 subject "Polisi, Salvatore, 1945-".
- 2012000610 title "The Sinatra Club / by Sal Polisi and Steve Dougherty.".
- 2012000610 type "text".