An edition of Tough Jews (1998)

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1st Vintage Books ed.
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An edition of Tough Jews (1998)

Tough Jews

1st Vintage Books ed.
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Back in the twenties and thirties in Brooklyn, there lived a breed of men who now exist only in legend and in the memories of a few old-timers. These men were Jewish gangsters, fearless thugs who worked for their nicknames: Buggsy Goldstein, Kid Twist Reles, Pittsburgh Phil Strauss. Growing up in Brownsville, they made their way from street fights to underworld power, becoming the execution squad for a national crime syndicate.

They were known as Murder Inc., a corporation dealing in death, which did for organized crime what Henry Ford did for the automobile. Tough Jews is the first in-depth portrait of these men, a glimpse of street-level thugs, the muscle that made possible the success of gangster statesmen such as Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, and Lucky Luciano.

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Vintage Books
Language
English
Pages
275

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Cover of: Tough Jews
Tough Jews
1999, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage Books ed.
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Tough Jews
1998, Simon & Schuster
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-272) and index.
Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1998. With new afterword.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
364.3/492407471
Library of Congress
HV6194.J4 C64 1999, HV6194.J4C64 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
275 p. :
Number of pages
275

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Open Library
OL379285M
Internet Archive
toughjews00cohe
ISBN 10
0375705473
LCCN
98041410
Library Thing
51099
Goodreads
73370

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