Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams by Cohen, Rich

Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375705472)

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Format: Paperback
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Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams by Cohen, Rich

Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams

$19.00
Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams by Cohen, Rich

Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams

$19.00
Format: Paperback
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In an L.A. delicatessen, a group of Brooklyn natives gets together to discuss basketball, boxing, the weather back east, and the Jewish gangsters of yesteryear. Meyer Lansky. Bugsy Siegel. Louis Lepke, the self-effacing mastermind of Murder, Inc. Red Levine, the Orthodox hit man who refused to kill on the Sabbath. Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, who looked like a mama's boy but once buried a rival alive. These are just some of the vibrant, vicious characters Rich Cohen's father reminisced about and the author evokes so pungently in Tough Jews.

Tracing a generation of Jewish gangsters from the candy stores of Brownsville to the clubhouses of the Lower East Side--and, occasionally, to suites at the Waldorf--Cohen creates a densely anecdotal and gruesomely funny history of muscle, moxie, and money. Filled with fixers and schlammers, the squeal of tires and the rattle of gunfire, his book shatters stereotypes as deftly as its subjects once shattered kneecaps.

Author: Rich Cohen
ISBN-10: 0375705473
ISBN-13: 9780375705472
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 04/20/1999
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.21w x 0.65d
By Rich Cohen
By Rich Cohen
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Rich Cohen is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Tough Jews, The Avengers, Monsters, and (with Jerry Weintraub) When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead. He is a co-creator of the HBO series Vinyl and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone and has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Harper's Magazine, among others. Cohen has won the Great Lakes Book Award, the Chicago Public Library's 21st Century Award, and the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for outstanding coverage of music. His stories have been included in The Best American Essays and The Best American Travel Writing. He lives in Connecticut.

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