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Gangland Boston: A Tour Through the Deadly Streets of Organized Crime Paperback – Illustrated, October 19, 2017

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A GUIDED TOUR OF BOSTON’S UNDERWORLD, REVEALING THE PLACES WHERE DEALS WERE MADE, PEOPLE WERE KILLED, AND BODIES WERE BURIED

Gangsters have played a shady role in shaping Greater Boston’s history. While lurking in local restaurants or just around the corner inside that inconspicuous building, countless criminals have quietly made their mark on the city and surrounding communities. Gangland Boston reveals the hidden history of these places, bringing readers back in time to when the North End was wrought with gun violence, Hanover Street was known as a “shooting gallery,” and guys named King Solomon, Beano Breen, and Mickey the Wiseguy ruled the underworld.
Drawing upon years of research and an extensive collection of rare photographs, author Emily Sweeney sheds light on how gang violence unfolded during Prohibition, how the Italian mafia rose to power, and how the Gustin Gang came to be. She also uncovers little-known facts about well-known crime figures (Did you know the leader of the Gustin Gang was an Olympic athlete? Or that a fellowship at a major university was named after a big-time bookie?)
From South Boston to Somerville, Chinatown to Charlestown, and every neighborhood in between, readers will get to know mobsters in ways they never have before.
Readers will find out:
* Exact addresses where mobsters lived, worked, and played around Greater Boston
* How an Olympic athlete became one of Boston’s most notorious gangsters
* The untold history of the Gustin Gang
* Frank Sinatra’s connection to a long-forgotten Massachusetts racetrack
* Little-known facts about David “Beano” Breen, Charles “King” Solomon, Harry “Doc” Sagansky, Raymond L.S. Patriarca, and other legendary crime figures

About the Author

EMILY SWEENEY has written for the Boston Globe since 2001. A proud native of Dorchester, she’s the author of Boston Organized Crime and she appeared in Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie, and The Departed, a documentary film that is featured on the DVD of the Oscar-winning movie The Departed. Visit her website at www.bostonorganizedcrime.com.

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October 19, 2017
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1493030361
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978-1493030361
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lyons Press; Illustrated edition (October 19, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 216 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1493030361
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1493030361
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.84 x 0.57 x 9.19 inches

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Emily Sweeney is a staff reporter at The Boston Globe and author of several nonfiction books, including BOSTON ORGANIZED CRIME, GANGLAND BOSTON, and DROPKICK MURPHY: A LEGENDARY LIFE. A proud native of Dorchester, Sweeney has made a number of appearances on TV and radio shows, and is featured in "Bloody Boston," a two-part documentary special on the Reelz channel; “Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and The Departed,” a bonus feature on the DVD of the Oscar-winning movie The Departed; and the forthcoming Netflix series “How To Become A Mob Boss.”

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J. Spedden

Interesting!

Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2021

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Having lived in Boston, I found this book fascinating! As I read about the different criminals and gangs, I was transported to a different time and felt like I was walking down the historical streets. If you want to learn more about Boston and its criminal history, go ahead and enjoy the great stories.

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Dughlas Ailean Mackay

Great history of our beloved Boston.

Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2021

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Very good read, like re-living the nightly news stories only better details. I think people felt safer in those days and the state govt. was run better.

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Interesting insights.

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2019

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Interesting, but a very choppy read dash difficult to follow a timeline in places.

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CMJ

An excellent deep dive into Boston's early criminal history

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2019

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Excellent piece of work! Boston true crime stories seem to always revolve around the same couple of topics. This compilation of anecdotes and well-researched historical accounts provides a great window into Boston's fascinating criminal history long before Whitey Bulger or even the Brinks robbery. I learned a LOT of things about turn-of-the-Century and early 20th Century Boston that I hadn't known - and I've worked in the city 20 years and lived in Greater Boston most of my life. Really enjoyed this.

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MizzMary

Just the facts...

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2018

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I was disappointed in this book. The writing style was straightforward and factual, but short on detail or analysis. One might pick out certain well-known characters to get to know a little more about them, but this isn't a book someone would sit down and read for pleasure. I do feel it would be of interest to lifelong Bostonians, who might be better able to relate to the people, places and situations involved, but most of this would not hold the average readers' interest. Sorry--with all due respect, but only two stars.

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Caterpillar983

Great gift!

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2021

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Gave this to my dad and he loved it. Emily Sweeney is a talented writer and really captures the history of Boston's underground.

Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2018

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The organization of this book makes absolutely no sense. It’s not chronological. It’s not organized by characters or themes or neighborhoods. It’s completely haphazard. Instead of crafting a narrative, Sweeney simply regurgitates boring facts like how tall these gang memebers were or what the temperature was on a particular day. I can’t even tell you how useless this book is. I’m very disappointed because I know Boston has a rich history that could be told through stories of organized crime, but Sweeney executes so poorly that I can’t say I learned anything interesting. Look elsewhere for a book on organized crime in Boston. Sweeney misses the mark. Waste of time.

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Deb & Sam

Such a good read

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2020

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All true stories. Very interesting to read how things were even back in the early 1900s. It was rough times for those lived close to all these happenings

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robert

A Good Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 25, 2019

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This book is a good read for anybody that wants to know a lot of brief information about several Boston Gangsters. If you want a more detailed and thorough read on gangs and gangsters of Boston then I would look else where. It does give you a lot of good information on various people, events and places, it just does not give you a full story of the people mentioned, at least some of them. The only thing I did not like was that the author never said what happened to Steve Gustin, even at the end of the book when it it had the where are they now section. All in all I would say that this book is worth the read if you are interested in Boston's underworld history. 8/10

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