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" Supermob : "
Gus Russo.
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BL
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853715
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Russo, Gus.
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| Title & Author
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Supermob : : how Sidney Korshak and his criminal associates became America's hidden power brokers /\ Gus Russo.
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1st U.S. ed.
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New York :: Bloomsbury :: Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck,, 2006.
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xvi, 623 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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1582343896
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: 9781582343891
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-598) and index.
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| Contents
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Cast of characters -- The lawyer from Lawndale -- From Lawndale to the Seneca to the underworld -- Birds of a feather -- Kaddish for California -- The future is in real estate -- "Hell, that's what you had to do in those days to get by" -- Scenes from Hollywood, part one -- Jimmy, Bobby and Sidney -- Forty years in the desert -- The kingmakers: Paul, Lew and Ronnie in California -- The new frontier -- Bistro days -- "He could never walk away from those people" -- Scenes from Hollywood, part two -- "A sunny place for shady people" -- Coming under attack -- From Hoffa to Hollywood -- From Dutch sandwiches to Dutch Reagan -- Airing dirty laundry and laundering dirty money -- Pursued by the Fourth Estate -- The true untouchables -- Legacies -- Appendices : A. Supermob investments -- B. Pritzker holdings ; C. Ziffren-Greenberg-Genis documents.
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Investigative reporter Russo tells the remarkable story of the "Supermob"--A cadre of men who, over the course of decades, secretly influenced nearly every aspect of American society. Presenting new revelations about such famous members as Jules Stein, Joe Glaser, Ronald Reagan, Lew Wasserman, David Bazelon, and John Jacob Factor--as well as infamous, scrupulously low-profile members--Russo pulls the lid off of a half-century of criminal infiltration into American business, politics, and society. At the heart of it all is Sidney "The Fixer" Korshak, who from the 1940s until his death in the 1990s was not only the most powerful lawyer in the world, according to the FBI, but the enigmatic player behind countless 20th century power mergers, political deals, and organized crime chicaneries. As the underworld's primary link to the corporate upperworld, Korshak's backroom dominance and talent for anonymity will likely never be equaled.--From publisher description.
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Korshak, Sidney Roy,1907-1996.
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Korshak, Sidney Roy,1907-1996.
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Lawyers-- California, Biography.
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Lawyers-- Illinois-- Chicago, Biography.
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Organized crime-- United States.
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Lawyers.
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Organized crime.
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California.
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Illinois, Chicago.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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364.1092
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B
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KF373.K67R87 2006
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