This is a book many thought couldn’t be written, told frankly and factually by the one man alive who knows the whole story, Virgil Peterson.
THE MOB is destined to become the authority in its field. It details the way east-coast mobs have operated since their inception, through violence on the one hand, and corruption and bribery of politicians on the other. It describes the sweetheart relationship the mob had with various Tammany pols, as well as union chiefs.
Here is not only the entire history of New York crime, soberly recounted, but also a lengthy discourse on the Sicilian Mafia. You'll find the entire mob here, along with its predecessors, such as the Tweed Ring, and its allies, such as Tammany. And you'll find the great crime-fighters as well, such as Tom Dewey and Fiorello La Guardia.
But most of all, you'll find stunning “rap sheets” on the hoods themselves, men such as Arthur Flegenheimer (better known as Dutch Schultz), Abe (Bo! Weinberg. Owney Madden, Jack (Legs) Dia-mond. Lepke Buchalter. Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello. Meyer Lansky. Longv Zwillman. Waxey Gordon. Joe Adonis. Albert Anastasia. Arnold Rothstein. Willie Moretti. Bugsy Siegel. Tony Lucchese, Joe Bonanno. Carlo Gambino, Vito Genovese, Michael (Trigger Mike) Coppola, and a vast galaxy of other luminaries.
You'll read the whole inside story of the famous barberchair murder of Albert Anastasia in 1957, and the inside story’ of the notorious Apalachin conference of top mobsters.
Youll examine Joseph Valachi's testimony about La G sa Nostra — and discover which of it is not very true.
And you'll glimpse the shadowy, bloody, back-to-the-wall life of the present day mob families in and around New York.