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020 _a1451642873 (hardcover)
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020 _a9781451642872 (hardcover)
020 _a9781451643169 (mass market pbk.)
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092 _a364.1092
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100 1 _aPolisi, Salvatore,
_d1945-
_9213887
245 1 4 _aThe Sinatra Club :
_bmy life inside the New York Mafia /
_cSal Polisi and Steve Dougherty.
250 _a1st Gallery Books hardcover ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bGallery Books,
_cc2012.
300 _axiv, 386 p., [8] p. of plates :
_bill. ;
_c25 cm.
520 _aThe 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.--From publisher description.
600 1 0 _aPolisi, Salvatore,
_d1945-
_9213887
650 0 _aGambling and crime
_zNew York (State)
_zNew York
_vBiography.
_9213888
650 0 _aMafia
_zNew York (State)
_zNew York
_vBiography.
_9213889
650 0 _aOrganized crime
_zNew York (State)
_zNew York
_vBiography.
_9213890
700 1 _aDougherty, Steve,
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