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Lucky Luciano: The Man Who Organized Crime in America Kindle Edition

by Hickman Powell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Lucky was behind the infamous Atlantic City gathering of top US mobsters. They ran crime as a business structured by Luciano as the Cosa Nostra. We're bigger than GeneralMotorsbecamegangster lore.

About the Author

Hickman Powell was a successful newspaper journalist who followed Luciano’s trial from its inception to the jury verdict making it the most complete account ever printed. He became a close friend of District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, who gave him a front seat at the trial. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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356 pages
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English
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Barricade Books
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February 2, 2015
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00SK4GSAE
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Barricade Books; Reprint edition (February 2, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 2, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5323 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 356 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,274,603 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #611 in Mid Atlantic U.S. Biographies
- #1,109 in Biographies of Organized Crime
- #2,105 in Biographies & Memoirs of Criminals

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cynthia b

Good

Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2021

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Purchased for my husband and he thought it was a great read

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J.A. Strockbine

which was pretty interesting.

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2016

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Strictly about the 1936 Luciano trial, he tells the story about some of the prostitutes who testified against Luciano, which was pretty interesting.

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Bad book by a biased sycophant of the author

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2003

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This has to be the worst 'Biog' ever.I defy anyone to find enough mentions of Luciano's name to warrant the Title of this book.The main charactor is DEWEY who was so ambitious to become Govenor that he used any means to nail Luciano ,later he tried and failed for President.Even at the time ,the trial was regarded as a farce.being trial by association.Luciano was a bad man who deserved putting away -this was a shabby way to do it.
As a book There are no details of his early life ,his bonding with the none Sicilian gangsters which at the time was considered to be a very daring thing to do.especialy Lansky and Seigal for which he was much critised by the other mobsters I agree with your previous critic there is nothing to learn from this nook ,which frankly I expected was would be a recent study.itis just a publicity spin for Dewey with whole chapters appearing to say nothing about the Title name
A complete waste of money and the time of anybody reading it
PRINCE RAFAEL
(London )

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dann d.

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2017

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Wonderful novel, one of my favorite about him! Book was in excellent condition!!

Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2015

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book in very good condition

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2022

There is not about Mr. Luciano life so much, but more about his times. Maybe 95% fiction.

Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2006

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Initially, I thought this book would be interesting regarding a biographical over-view of the old Mafioso. The book might have been rated as a "5-star" when it was originally published,but not now! The entire format and story line dates to the same time of the original prostitution indictment. I thought from the narrative that I was reading some "Boston Blackie" novel.

The front cover leads one to believe that the biography was written rather recently, but ... thats not true .

The book was a literary "cement shoe" that dragged the reader down into the depths of boredom. I would recommend that the reader search for something else, "anything else!"

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Alicia Carroll

A Return to the 1930's Crime Scene

Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2012

For anyone who is not old enough to remember the New York crime scene of the 1930's and the colorful but lethal characters of that era, "Lucky Luciano: The Man Who Organized Crime in America" is a primer and important gateway to that world. Since several generations of true crime and mob buffs have been born since then, there obviously is a new market for this book. Lucky Luciano was a significant player on the stage of Mafia-influenced crime and was instrumental in the creation of a syndicate of mob bosses across the country. Yet, he was no match for an ambitious prosecutor who had higher political aspirations. Because this book was written by a contemporary of Luciano, the reader has an opportunity to time-travel to the scene of Luciano's trial and view the prosecution waged by Thomas E. Dewey through the spectrum of an era when prostitution was considered one of the most shameful of crimes. And, due to this generally accepted moral compass of the day, Luciano was easily convicted and Dewey successfully gained the public's support for the defendant's subsequent deportation. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys the history of organized crime.

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