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Shocking Stories of the Cleveland Mob by Ted Schwarz (2010, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherArcadia Publishing
ISBN-101596299185
ISBN-139781596299184
eBay Product ID (ePID)117209723
Product Key Features
Book TitleShocking Stories of the Cleveland Mob
Number of Pages128 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicOrganized Crime, Criminals & Outlaws, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Sociology / Urban
Publication Year2010
IllustratorYes
GenreTrue Crime, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorTed Schwarz
Book SeriesTrue Crime Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight7.7 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2010-039765
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal3641..1/060977132
SynopsisHere celebrated national writer Ted Schwarz brings it home and focuses on Cleveland's extensive involvement in the mafia. With an irresistible writing style and a gift for storytelling, Schwarz chronicles the lives of Cleveland mobsters such as Moe Dalitz and their power, not just in Cleveland but on a national scale. In this book that touches on every essential bit of Cleveland mob history, Schwarz shows how the Cleveland area became a center for sophisticated (albeit illegal) nightclub entertainment with places such as the Mounds Club, the Pettibone, the Harvard Club, and the Theatrical. It tells of Meyer Lansky quietly established a post-Prohibition sugar operation in Cleveland and how the Teamsters Union Pension Fund became a resource for illicit investments including in Las Vegas. It covers the Kefauver Organized Crime Hearings and the men who learned how to create irresistible entertainment attractions in the area that made them illegal, then applied that knowledge to the anything goes world of the infant Las Vegas Strip. Dalitz, a man who murdered as part of business, was an honored elder in Las Vegas at the time of his death., They are the dirty little secrets of Cleveland's past, mob guys so good--or so bad--that you rarely hear their stories. Men such as Micky McBride turned newsboys into sluggers, gave bookies a run for suckers' losing bets and created the Cleveland Browns when football was still a sport the players knew how to win. There was the Jewish Navy, taking laundry trucks to Canada and bringing back barges filled with booze. Then there were the rug joints--the Harvard Club, the Beverly Hills Club, the Mounds Club--where Moe Dalitz mastered the art of taking your money and helped build Las Vegas, the best "man trap" in America. Join author Ted Schwarz as he tracks wanted killers through the Statler Hotel and navigates the secret history of the Cleveland mob.
LC Classification NumberHV6452.O3S39 2010
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