Author: Rachel Rubin
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: literature, modern, gangsters, jewish
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2000-04-05
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0252025393
ISBN-13: 9780252025396

In this vividly written study, Rachel Rubin posits the Jewish literary gangster - a figure whose violence, transgressiveness, and ongoing internal conflict render him an important symbol of modernity - as a locus for exploring questions of artistic power in the interwar years. Focusing specifically on the Russian writer Isaac Babel and Americans Mike Gold, Samuel Ornitz, and Daniel Fuchs, but also taking in cartoons, movies, and modernist paintings, Rubin casts the Jewish gangster as a favorite figure used by left-wing Jewish writers to examine their own place in world history.Rubin contends t

Author: Robert A. Rockaway
Publisher: Gefen Publishing House, Ltd
Keywords: gangsters, jewish, crimes, lives, mother
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2000-02
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 9652292494
ISBN-13: 9789652292490

Now in its 7th printing - inludes more gangsters! Newly footnoted and expanded bibliography! New FBI documents! More detailed information about the alleged plot to assassinate Adolph Hitler! While doing research for this book, Prof. Robert Rockaway interviewed old-time Jewish mobsters and their families. He never knew what his subjects would say or do, so he came prepared for any eventuality.

Authors:Raymond Fisman, Edward Miguel,
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: poverty, nations, violence, corruption, gangsters, economic
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2008-09-02
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0691134545
ISBN-13: 9780691134543

Meet the economic gangster. He’s the United Nations diplomat who double-parks his Mercedes on New York City streets at rush hour because the cops can’t touch him--he has diplomatic immunity. He’s the Chinese smuggler who dodges tariffs by magically transforming frozen chickens into frozen turkeys. The dictator, the warlord, the unscrupulous bureaucrat who bilks the developing world of billions in aid. The calculating crook who views stealing and murder as just another part of his business strategy. And, in the wrong set of circumstances, he might just be you. In Economic Gang

Author: Ann Arnold
Publisher: Eakin Press
Keywords: amp, highway, 1940s, 1950s, jacksboro, worth, gangsters, fort, gamblers
Number of Pages: 223
Published: 1998-12
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1571682503
ISBN-13: 9781571682505

Authors:Daniel Anderson, Laurence Yadon, Robert Barr Smith,
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
Keywords: lawmen, amp, gangsters, outlaws, oklahoma
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-04-15
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1589803841
ISBN-13: 9781589803848

The only thing wilder than Oklahoma in the late nineteenth century are the tales that continue to surround it. In the days of the Wild West, Oklahoma was teeming with assassins, guerillas, hijackers, kidnappers, gangs, and misfits of every size and shape imaginable. Featuring such legendary characters as Billy the Kid, Bonnie and Clyde, Machine Gun Kelly, Belle Starr, and Pretty Boy Floyd, this book combines recorded fact with romanticized legend, allowing the reader to decide how much to believe. Violent and out of control, the figures covered in 100 Oklahoma Outlaws, Gang

Authors:Raymond Fisman, Edward Miguel,
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: nations, new, paper, poverty, violence, gangsters, corruption, economic
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2010-01-24
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0691144699
ISBN-13: 9780691144696

Meet the economic gangster. He’s the United Nations diplomat who double-parks his Mercedes on New York City streets at rush hour because the cops can’t touch him--he has diplomatic immunity. He’s the Chinese smuggler who dodges tariffs by magically transforming frozen chickens into frozen turkeys. The dictator, the warlord, the unscrupulous bureaucrat who bilks the developing world of billions in aid. The calculating crook who views stealing and murder as just another part of his business strategy. And, in the wrong set of circumstances, he might just be you. In Economic Gang

Author: Ron Owens
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company (KY)
Keywords: oklahoma, gangsters, terrorists, gunfighters, police, justice, city, century
Published: 1996-04
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1563112809
ISBN-13: 9781563112805