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Author Russo, Gus.

Title Supermob : how Sidney Korshak and his criminal associates became America's hidden power brokers / Gus Russo.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck, 2006.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.106 RUSSO    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO KORSHAK    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-KORSHAK, S.    Check Shelf
Edition First U.S. edition.
Description xvi, 623 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [587]-598) and index.
Contents Cast of characters -- The lawyer from Lawndale -- From Lawndale to the Seneca to the underworld -- Birds of a feather -- Kaddish for California -- The future is in real estate -- "Hell, that's what you had to do in those days to get by." -- Scenes from Hollywood, part one -- Jimmy, Bobby and Sidney -- Years in the desert -- The kingmakers : Paul, Lew and Ronnie in California -- The new frontier -- Bistro days -- "He could never walk away from those people." -- Scenes from Hollywood, part two -- "A sunny place for shady people" -- Coming under attack -- From Hoffa to Hollywood -- From Dutch sandwiches to Dutch Reagan -- Airing dirty laundry and laundering dirty money -- Pursued by the Fourth Estate -- The true untouchables -- Legacies.
Subject Korshak, Sidney Roy, 1907-1996.
Lawyers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
Lawyers -- California -- Biography.
Organized crime -- United States.
ISBN 1582343896
Standard No. 9781582343891
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