Supermob How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America's Hidden Power Brokers,9781582343891

Supermob How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America's Hidden Power Brokers

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ISBN13: 9781582343891
ISBN10: 1582343896
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-09-05
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury USA
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Summary

"Supermob presents stunning revelations about national icons such as Ronald Reagan, Jules Stein, Lew Wasserman, Paul Ziffren, Abe Pritzker, and others. Although most of these men were meticulously low profile, Supermob pulls the lid off of their half-century infiltration into American business, politics, and society."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Gus Russo is the author of The Outfit: The Role of Chicago’s Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America and Live By the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK. He is an investigative reporter who has worked for various major television networks, including PBS, where he was a lead reporter for the award-winning Frontline series.

Table of Contents

Cast of Characters vii
Preface xv
1. The Lawyer from Lawndale
1(23)
2. From Lawndale to the Seneca...to the Underworld
24(32)
3. Birds of a Feather
56(18)
4. Kaddish for California
74(17)
5. The Future Is in Real Estate
91(25)
6. "Hell, That's What You Had to Do in Those Days to Get By"
116(31)
7. Scenes from Hollywood, Part One
147(15)
8. Jimmy, Bobby, and Sidney
162(33)
9. Forty Years in the Desert
195(32)
10. The Kingmakers: Paul, Lew, and Ronnie in California 227(19)
11. The New Frontier 246(29)
12. Bistro Days 275(21)
13. "He Could Never Walk Away from Those People" 296(32)
14. Scenes from Hollywood, Part Two 328(9)
15. "A Sunny Place for Shady People" 337(23)
16. Coming Under Attack 360(13)
17. From Hoffa to Hollywood 373(29)
18. From Dutch Sandwiches to Dutch Reagan 402(24)
19. Airing Dirty Laundry and Laundering Dirty Money 426(19)
20. Pursued by the Fourth Estate 445(28)
21. The True Untouchables 473(33)
22. Legacies 506(23)
Acknowledgments 529(4)
Appendix A: Supermob Investments 533(4)
Appendix B: Pritzker Holdings 537(8)
Appendix C: Ziffren-Greenberg-Genis Documents 545(4)
Notes 549(38)
Bibliography 587(12)
Index 599

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