Tinseltown Gangsters

The Rise and Decline of the Mob in Hollywood

Jeffrey Sussman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2024
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-7356-5 (ISBN)

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Like sharks to blood in the water, the mob arrived in Hollywood greedy and ready to tear away huge chunks of cash. Opportunistic mobsters saw labor unions as the means for muscling into the movie industry and extorting millions of dollars from studio bosses. Control the unions to which projectionists, art directors, cinematographers, electricians, scene designers, stagehands, extras belong, and you control the whole industry.
Painting colorful portraits of numerous mobsters, producers, actors, and directors, Tinseltown Gangsters tells the gripping, fast-paced, true story of corruption and greed in Hollywood throughout much of the twentieth century.

Jeffrey Sussman is the author of seventeen nonfiction books, seven of which have been published by Rowman & Littlefield. In addition to Tinseltown Gangsters, Sussman is the author of Sin City Gangsters: The Rise and Decline of the Mob in Las Vegas; Big Apple Gangsters: The Rise and Decline of the Mob in New York; and Boxing and the Mob: The Notorious History of the Sweet Science. He lives in New York City

Introduction
Chapter 1: Joseph Kennedy: The First Shark
Chapter 2: Bugsy Siegel: Dream City Gangster
Chapter 3: Mickey Cohen: Little Tough Guy
Chapter 4: Willie Bioff: Solid Gold Extortionist
Chapter 5: Handsome Johnny Rosselli: Smooth as Silk
Chapter 6: Harry Cohn: White Fang
Chapter 7: Thelma Todd: The Death of the Ice Cream Blonde
Chapter 8: Sidney Korshak: The Outfit’s Fixer in Hollywood
Chapter 9: The Cotton Club Murders
Chapter 10: Lords of Pornography

Erscheinungsdatum	08.02.2024
Zusatzinfo	11 BW Photos
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 235 mm
Gewicht	531 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
ISBN-10	1-5381-7356-5 / 1538173565
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-7356-5 / 9781538173565
Zustand	Neuware