Tough Jews

ISBN-13: 9780099757917 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999

Rich Cohen

Opis

Tells the stories of Jewish gangsters. This title evokes their world: a world of street corners and bars and nightclubs; a world where murder was better than cowardice; where killings were planned and executed with precision and finesse; and, a world in which for a brief moment, Jews were among the most important criminals in America.

Recenzje

A terrific storyteller, drawing you right into the tenements where young thugs were recruited, the shooting wars and the perceived betrayals, the labour rackets and all-night card games...Few of the tough Jews Cohen writes about lived to see the inside of a recruitment community. They died young and they died out. But this is a dazzling tribute to their courage and to their cool. Penny Perrick The Times

O autorze

Rich Cohen has written for the New Yorker, the New York Observer, the New York Times and many other magazines. He is currently a contributing editor at Rolling Stone. He lives in New York City.