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Gangsters vs. Nazis
- How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America
- Narrado por: Gabriel Vaughan
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
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The New England Mafia was a hugely powerful organization that survived by using violence to ruthlessly crush anyone that threatened it, or its lucrative gambling, loansharking, bootlegging, and other enterprises. From information based on newly declassified documents and the use of underworld sources, Boston Mob spans the gutters and alleyways of East Boston, Providence, and Charlestown to the halls of Congress in Washington, D.C., and Boston's Beacon Hill. Its players include governors and mayors, and the Mafia Commission of New York City.
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Entertaining
- De joeyg1963 en 12-07-19
De: Marc Songini
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Get Capone
- The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster
- De: Jonathan Eig
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 17 h y 17 m
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Acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Jonathan Eig blows the lid off the Al Capone story. Based on never-before-seen government documents and newly discovered letters written by Al Capone himself, Get Capone presents America's greatest gangster as you’ve never seen him before.
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Get this book
- De Jonathan en 05-13-10
De: Jonathan Eig
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The Mayor of Castro Street
- The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
- De: Randy Shilts
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 16 h y 10 m
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Known as The Mayor of Castro Street even before he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk's personal life, public career, and final assassination reflect the dramatic emergence of the gay community as a political power in America. It is a story full of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassinations at City Hall, massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice, and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope.
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Excellent historical perspective of an activist.
- De Chris en 04-14-15
De: Randy Shilts
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Paddy Whacked
- The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster
- De: T. J. English
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 21 h y 10 m
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In Paddy Whacked, best-selling author and organized crime expert T. J. English brings to life nearly two centuries of Irish American gangsterism, which spawned such unforgettable characters as Mike "King Mike" McDonald, Chicago's subterranean godfather; Big Bill Dwyer, New York's most notorious rumrunner during Prohibition; Mickey Featherstone, troubled Vietnam vet turned Westies gang leader; and James "Whitey" Bulger, the ruthless and seemingly untouchable Southie legend.
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First Half - 4 Stars - Second Half - 2 Stars
- De Lulu en 08-29-16
De: T. J. English
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Hellhound on His Trail
- The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
- De: Hampton Sides
- Narrado por: Hampton Sides
- Duración: 15 h y 9 m
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On April 23, 1967, Prisoner #416J, an inmate at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary, escaped in a breadbox. Fashioning himself Eric Galt, this nondescript thief and con man - whose real name was James Earl Ray -drifted through the South, into Mexico, and then Los Angeles, where he was galvanized by George Wallace's racist presidential campaign. With relentless storytelling drive, Sides follows Galt and King as they crisscross the country, one stalking the other, until the crushing moment at the Lorraine Motel.
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History Comes Alive
- De L. Lyter en 06-29-10
De: Hampton Sides
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War Against All Puerto Ricans
- Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
- De: Nelson A. Denis
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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In 1950, after over 50 years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island: Assassins were sent to kill President Harry Truman, gunfights roared in eight towns, police stations and post offices were burned down. In order to suppress this uprising, the US Army deployed thousands of troops and bombarded two towns.
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Great story, Mispronounced Spanish
- De ricardo en 08-18-16
De: Nelson A. Denis
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The Last Good Heist
- The Inside Story of the Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast
- De: Wayne Worcester, Randall Richard, Tim White
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
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On August 14, 1975, eight daring thieves ransacked 148 massive safe-deposit boxes at a secret bank used by organized crime, La Cosa Nostra, and its associates in Providence, Rhode Island. The crooks fled with duffel bags crammed full of cash, gold, silver, stamps, coins, jewels, and high-end jewelry. The true value of the loot has always been kept secret, partly because it was ill-gotten to begin with, and partly because there was plenty of incentive to keep its true worth out of the limelight.
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Interesting but not the greatest story.
- De Russell en 07-21-17
De: Wayne Worcester, y otros
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Animal
- The Bloody Rise and Fall of the Mob's Most Feared Assassin
- De: Casey Sherman
- Narrado por: Jim Goad
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
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Joe Barboza knew that there were two requirements for getting inducted into the Mafia. You had to be Sicilian. And you had to commit a contract killing. The New Bedford-born mobster was a proud Portuguese, not Sicilian, but his dream to be part of La Cosa Nostra proved so strong that he thought he could create a loophole. Barboza’s legacy, buried for years thanks to the murders or deaths of its participants, is finally coming to light and being told in its unvarnished brutality by one of America’s most respected true crime writers.
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Well done. 5 stars.
- De robert price en 03-03-19
De: Casey Sherman
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Terror in the City of Champions
- Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society That Shocked Depression-Era Detroit
- De: Tom Stanton
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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Detroit, mid-1930s: In a city abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, gun-loving baseball fan Dayton Dean became ensnared in the nefarious and deadly Black Legion. The secretive, Klan-like group was executing a wicked plan of terror, murdering enemies, flogging associates, and contemplating armed rebellion. The Legion boasted tens of thousands of members across the Midwest, among them politicians and prominent citizens - even, possibly, a beloved athlete.
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Interesting stories but oversold
- De Theron Schultz en 09-15-18
De: Tom Stanton
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Witness to the Revolution
- Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul
- De: Clara Bingham
- Narrado por: Jo Anna Perrin
- Duración: 18 h y 40 m
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As the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. From August 1969 to August 1970, the nation witnessed 9,000 protests and 84 acts of arson or bombings at schools across the country. It was the year of the My Lai massacre investigation, the Cambodia invasion, Woodstock, and the Moratorium to End the War. The American death toll in Vietnam was approaching 50,000, and the ascendant counterculture was challenging nearly every aspect of American society.
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great perspective on an era
- De james en 04-02-18
De: Clara Bingham
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The Savage City
- De: T. J. English
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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In the early 1960s, uncertainty and menace gripped New York, crystallizing in a poisonous divide between a deeply corrupt, cynical, and racist police force, and an African American community buffeted by economic distress, brutality, and narcotics. On August 28, 1963 - the day Martin Luther King Jr. declared "I have a dream" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial - two young white women were murdered in their Manhattan apartment. Dubbed the Career Girls Murders case, the crime sent ripples of fear throughout the city, as police scrambled fruitlessly for months to find the killer.
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I Highly Recommend This Book!
- De R en 05-15-13
De: T. J. English
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A Bright and Guilty Place
- Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age
- De: Richard Rayner
- Narrado por: Brett Barry
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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In A Bright and Guilty Place, an exhilarating tale of murder in L.A., Richard Rayner finds the source of the city's darkness in real-life events that unfolded in the 1920s, when the booming early years of L.A. started to shade into the Depression, and the city of sunshine revealed the hidden darkness and corruption at its heart.
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Didn't hold my interest
- De Hopesurvives en 11-03-17
De: Richard Rayner
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The Brothers Bulger
- How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century
- De: Howie Carr
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
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This fresh account of Massachusetts' infamous Bulger brothers unveils a stunning criminal alliance, and with its dual biography format, goes deeper than the New York Times best-selling Black Mass. For the first time, journalist Howie Carr reveals the real story behind the infamous Bulgers, two brothers from South Boston who grew up to control a state.
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- De Tory en 11-18-06
De: Howie Carr
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Sound and Fury
- Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship
- De: Dave Kindred
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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Muhammed Ali and Howard Cosell, a legendary athlete and a television icon, were individually interesting, but together they were mesmerizing. They were profoundly different, young and old, black and white, a Muslim and a Jew, Ali barely literate, Cosell an editor of his university's law review. Yet they had in common forces that made them unforgettable: both were unprecedented performers who covered enormous insecurities by demanding, loudly and often, public acclaim.
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Great insight into Ali & Cosell
- De Steve en 05-04-06
De: Dave Kindred
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The son of Sicilian immigrants, Camillo Carmine Galante was raised in Manhattan's Little Italy and by all accounts born bad. By fifteen he was terrorizing the streets of New York's Lower East Side, scoring high marks for the "errands" he was running for his La Cosa Nostra elders. When he turned twenty, Galante was already one of the mob's top enforcers-a sadistic thrill killer and clinically diagnosed psychopath with big dreams.
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Lazy Attempt; Awful Narrator
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John "Sonny" Franzese reportedly committed his first murder at the age of fourteen. As a "made man" for the Colombo crime family, he operated out of his Long Island home specializing in racketeering, fraud, and other illicit deeds he would deny to his dying day. His career in organized crime spanned over eight decades - and he was sentenced to fifty years in prison for robbery. This is the true story of an old-school Mafioso as it's never been told. Newsday reporter S. J. Peddie interviewed Franzese in prison and uncovered a lifetime of shocking secrets from the legend himself.
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Absolute BS
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In the fall of 1941, a momentous trial was set to begin that threatened to end the careers and lives of New York’s most brutal mob kingpins. The lead witness, Abe Reles, had been a trusted executioner for Murder, Inc., the enforcement arm of a coast-to-coast mob network known as the Syndicate. But the man responsible for coolly silencing hundreds of informants was about to become the most talkative snitch of all. In exchange for police protection, Reles was prepared to rat out his murderous friends, from Albert Anastasia to Bugsy Siegel....
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History from the bottom up
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Operation Underworld
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In 1942, a rational fear was mounting that New York Harbor was vulnerable to sabotage. If the waterfront was infested with German and Italian agents then the US Navy needed a recourse just as insidious to secure it. Naval intelligence officer Commander Charles Radcliffe Haffenden had the solution: recruit as his own spies, members of La Cosa Nostra. Pier to pier, no one terrified the longshoremen, stevedores, shopkeepers, and boat captains along the harbor better than the Mafia gangs of New York, who controlled the docks in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
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Must read of the extraordinary WWII Navy/Mafia Partnership
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Gangster Squad
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Gangster Squad chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. In 1946, the LAPD launched the Gangster Squad with eight men who met covertly on street corners and slept with Tommy guns under their beds. But for two cops, all that mattered was nailing the strutting gangster Mickey Cohen. Sgt. Jack O’Mara was a square-jawed church usher, Sgt. Jerry Wooters a cynical maverick....
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Nothing Like the movie
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Mafia Hit Man
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Joey "Crazy Joe" Gallo and his President Street mob waged a deadly Mafia civil war with the Colombo crime family, and in particular, Carmine "the Snake" Persico. And on that fateful night of April 7, 1972, in a Little Italy restaurant, Gallo was assassinated...by Carmine "Sonny" DiBiasi. This is the true story of who really whacked "Crazy Joe" Gallo on that fateful night of April 7, 1972.
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Zesty, perfectly paced, great storytelling
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The son of Sicilian immigrants, Camillo Carmine Galante was raised in Manhattan's Little Italy and by all accounts born bad. By fifteen he was terrorizing the streets of New York's Lower East Side, scoring high marks for the "errands" he was running for his La Cosa Nostra elders. When he turned twenty, Galante was already one of the mob's top enforcers-a sadistic thrill killer and clinically diagnosed psychopath with big dreams.
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John "Sonny" Franzese reportedly committed his first murder at the age of fourteen. As a "made man" for the Colombo crime family, he operated out of his Long Island home specializing in racketeering, fraud, and other illicit deeds he would deny to his dying day. His career in organized crime spanned over eight decades - and he was sentenced to fifty years in prison for robbery. This is the true story of an old-school Mafioso as it's never been told. Newsday reporter S. J. Peddie interviewed Franzese in prison and uncovered a lifetime of shocking secrets from the legend himself.
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Absolute BS
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In the fall of 1941, a momentous trial was set to begin that threatened to end the careers and lives of New York’s most brutal mob kingpins. The lead witness, Abe Reles, had been a trusted executioner for Murder, Inc., the enforcement arm of a coast-to-coast mob network known as the Syndicate. But the man responsible for coolly silencing hundreds of informants was about to become the most talkative snitch of all. In exchange for police protection, Reles was prepared to rat out his murderous friends, from Albert Anastasia to Bugsy Siegel....
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Operation Underworld
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In 1942, a rational fear was mounting that New York Harbor was vulnerable to sabotage. If the waterfront was infested with German and Italian agents then the US Navy needed a recourse just as insidious to secure it. Naval intelligence officer Commander Charles Radcliffe Haffenden had the solution: recruit as his own spies, members of La Cosa Nostra. Pier to pier, no one terrified the longshoremen, stevedores, shopkeepers, and boat captains along the harbor better than the Mafia gangs of New York, who controlled the docks in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
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Gangster Squad chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. In 1946, the LAPD launched the Gangster Squad with eight men who met covertly on street corners and slept with Tommy guns under their beds. But for two cops, all that mattered was nailing the strutting gangster Mickey Cohen. Sgt. Jack O’Mara was a square-jawed church usher, Sgt. Jerry Wooters a cynical maverick....
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Joey "Crazy Joe" Gallo and his President Street mob waged a deadly Mafia civil war with the Colombo crime family, and in particular, Carmine "the Snake" Persico. And on that fateful night of April 7, 1972, in a Little Italy restaurant, Gallo was assassinated...by Carmine "Sonny" DiBiasi. This is the true story of who really whacked "Crazy Joe" Gallo on that fateful night of April 7, 1972.
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Hell's Angels
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas author Hunter S. Thompson rocked the literary world with his mind-bending style of Gonzo journalism. First published in 1966, Hell’s Angels is Thompson’s up-close and personal look at the infamous motorcycle gang during the time when its moniker was most feared.
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Visions of the Future of Motorcycle Gangs
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Burning Down the Haus
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- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
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It began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military radio broadcast to troops in West Berlin, and it ended with the collapse of the East German dictatorship. Punk rock was a life-changing discovery. The buzz-saw guitars, the messed-up clothing and hair, the rejection of society and the DIY approach to building a new one: In their gray surroundings, where everyone's future was preordained by some communist apparatchik, punk represented a revolutionary philosophy - quite literally, as it turned out.
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We have no plan and we like it that way!
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The Times They Were a-Changin'
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If 1968 marked a turning point in a pivotal decade, 1964—or rather, the long 1964, from JFK’s assassination in November 1963 to mid-1965—was the time when the sixties truly arrived. It was then that the United States began a radical shift toward a much more inclusive definition of “American,” with a greater degree of equality and a government actively involved in social and economic improvement.
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The line it was drawn, the curse it was cast...
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American Midnight
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From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a groundbreaking reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threated by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor
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Disturbing yet Reassuring
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Mafia Democracy
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Greed. Lies. Corruption. These are the foundational elements of the American Mafia story. Here, the pursuit of power overshadows even the desire for a dollar, and self-interest outweighs the greater good. It’s a world that’s foreign to the average American—or is it? The values of our democracy and those of Mafia culture are separated by a thin line that’s quickly disintegrating.
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Not a Bipartisan Read
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Gangsters of Capitalism
- Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
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Smedley Butler was the most celebrated warfighter of his time. Best-selling books were written about him. Hollywood adored him. Wherever the flag went, “The Fighting Quaker” went - serving in nearly every major overseas conflict from the Spanish War of 1898 until the eve of World War II.
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nostalgic melancholy sadness of yet another time
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Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Gangsters vs. Nazis
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- Irish Annie
- 01-30-23
Great Account of Nazi History Unknown To Many Americans
Well-told story of how gangsters took on Nazi infiltration into America before the U.S. entered WWII. You will be surprised how Nazis had infiltrated our neighborhoods.
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- Jim Parker
- 07-14-22
Surprising Nazi fighters in the US
Interesting history we never really knew. The narration a bit like Gang Busters on radio.
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- Saul Cohen
- 06-02-22
Great ENJOYABLE Historic Rendition
Loved this book. Highly recommend it. Read with an easy to listen to reader.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-17-24
The commitment and respect for the religion of the people and the USA.
A plus! Really shaped the next generation and openness that is required to gain a foothold even as a Jewish.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-21-24
Maybe violence is the answer
If you stories about Nazis getting beaten up then you’ll love this. Also for fans of mobsters.
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- Carrie
- 06-26-23
Fun book. Lots of interesting anecdotes.
If you are looking for a scholarly analysis of how Jewish gangsters fought American Nazis throughout the 1930s, you won’t really find that here. The book is well researched, with lots of interesting stories pulled from a lot of good primary sources, and it is – more than anything else – FUN. If you want to read about Jews busting Nazi ass across the country, this is your book. If you want a discussion of the merits of such an approach, or an analysis of the attempts by both private citizens and the government to stymie others’ speech, well, this isn’t really your book. It’s a little bit like the time the white nationalist Richard Spencer was punched in the face on camera. Is it legal? No. Is it a good way to resolve conflict? Also no. Does it draw more attention to him than ignoring him? Probably. But…is it funny? Yes.
If you take too much time to think about what happens when people resort to violence when they disagree with what other people say, you’ll quickly find a lot of theoretical problems arising from the actions in this book. If you want that type of intellectual analysis, it is absolutely not in this book. BUT the book is so fun to read, especially if you are Jewish or interested in Jewish American life in the early half of the twentieth century. You’ll read about judicial corruption, violence, riots, and other issues, and (if you are looking for an action-packed literary good time) you’ll find yourself rooting for all of it.
If you listen to the audiobook, the narrator is perfect for the book. He’s a good reader, with no notable vocal affects to drive you nuts, and he sounds as if he’s enjoying the material too. Highly recommend.
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- Heather
- 11-05-22
delightful
This book was so fun. I listened to it with my mom who grew up in NYC and who's father grew up in poverty in Manhattan. She found the whole thing super nostalgic, and I loved the film noir style.
we both got a kick out of Jews kicking Nazi ass.
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- Rebecca L Sweet
- 11-15-23
Greatest war story nobody knows
Michael Benson uses 1930’s era colloquialisms in the narrative to transport readers back to a time when fascism nearly seduced Americans to destroy democracy and where the Jewish mob punched back and taught American Nazis that it wasn’t safe to spew anti-semitism.
Well researched and detailed history covering an American Jewish perspective as Hitler gained power in Europe.
In late ‘30s USA, the Nazi message found an eager audience. With a little bit of encouragement from a New York judge, Jewish Organized crime bosses felt it was their civic duty to silence Nazis and help a fearful Jewish community stand up to the hate being sold to the rest of the country.
Reads more like a good noir novel than a typical historical treatise, one wonders why Benson’s Gangsters vs Nazis is not already an epic Spielberg blockbuster.
Gabriel Vaughan brings the text to life with his no holds barred gruff narration.
The only bad thing about Gangsters vs Nazis is that the book eventually comes to a conclusion.
It ends reminding the reader that repackaged Nazis are still with us using the same gimmicks and tropes that were used in the ‘30s. Without the Jewish mob, does Americans and especially Jewish Americans have what it takes to take down today’s threats
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- C. L. Walker
- 08-02-22
Amazing History
I completely enjoyed the story! The "gangsters" definitely stood up, spoke up, and defended themselves.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-03-23
Clear, entertaining, fascinating
This was a great listen, I drive for a living and didn’t find myself losing focus or or missing any of it like I do some other history books.
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