Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life

by RobertLacey (Author)

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  Paperback
  1992

  $13.50

  Meyer Lansky's death in America in 1983 was front-page news. He was regarded as the Mafia's banker, and credited with having a personal fortune of $300 million and as claiming, We're bigger than US Steel . Yet he died at liberty, and within months his crippled son was living on welfare. In this book about organized crime, the author of Majesty and The Kingdom attempts to disentangle Lansky's extraordinary life.

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  Hardcover
  1991

  $14.36

  Based on interviews with Lansky's close friends and criminal associates, with law enforcement experts, and with members of Lansky's own family, and using previously unpublished documents written by Lansky himself, this is both the biography of a mob boss and a social history of American crime.