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The First Vice Lord

Arthur J. Bilek
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Author : Arthur J. Bilek
Publisher : Cumberland House Publishing
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1581826397

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THE FIRST VICE LORD is the story of the life and death of Big Jim Colosimo and Chicago's infamous segregated red-light district--the Levee. For the first time, the true story is told of the colorful characters who peopled the Levee from the time of the Columbian Exposition to the Roaring Twenties, clearly the most colorful period in Chicago's history. The product of five years of research through Chicago daily newspapers, magazines, and periodicals, and books on the city's history, it documents the story as it occurred, with all of the sights, sounds, and smells of that lusty, unruly era. THE FIRST VICE LORD is the story of an immigrant Italian lad who grew up in the tenements of Chicago, where he worked first as a lowly street sweeper, then as a brothel operator and vice lord, and finally as the owner of the most famous restaurant of his day. His story is told against the backdrop of an open red-light district so famous it was known to the crown heads of Europe.

A Nation of Lords

David Dawley
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Author : David Dawley
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015013257301

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This book tells about the streets of West Side, Chicago, from the times when shotguns were as vital as pants to the times when street fighters opened stores, art studios and tenant's rights programs. It is the story of the evolution of the Vice Lords from street fighting to street corporation, an organizational form of the emerging nation of Black youth.

This Is My Story

ToMack D. Johnson
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Author : ToMack D. Johnson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781462011728

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THIS GRITTY, BRUTALLY MEMOIR TELLS THE STORY OF AN ANGRY YOUTH WHO GOES TO PRISON AND, UPON RELEASE, BECOMES ONE OF OKLAHOMAS MOST PROMINENT DRUG DEALERS. This Is My Story is the brutally honest life story of ToMack D. Johnson. From his troubled childhood in Chickasha and Lawton, Oklahoma, to his initiation into the gang known as the Vice Lords, Johnson is brutally honest about the challenges that he faced. He describes his disturbing childhood and his rugged life as a teen gang member. In 1992, he began his ?rst prison term following his conviction for a drive-by shootingthus beginning the next troublesome period of his life as a hard head in prison. He left prison after spending over a quarter of his life there. Johnson explores his life as a businessman, street hustler, and drug dealer, trying to make money any way possible. He also talks about the battle for his life that he has fought since discovering that he had high blood pressure and devastating kidney failure. Finally, he talks honestly about his relationship with his daughter and her mother, as well as with all of the women in his life. By discussing the hardship of his abusive relationships with women, he recognizes the a?ect that being raped as a child had on his life.

The Notorious Ben Hecht

Julien Gorbach
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Author : Julien Gorbach
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612495958

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The Notorious Ben Hecht by Julien Gorbach Pdf

2019 National Jewish Book Award Finalist for Biography. Ben Hecht had seen his share of death-row psychopaths, crooked ward bosses, and Capone gun thugs by the time he had come of age as a crime reporter in gangland Chicago. His grim experience with what he called “the soul of man” gave him a kind of uncanny foresight a decade later, when a loose cannon named Adolf Hitler began to rise to power in central Europe. In 1932, Hecht solidified his legend as "the Shakespeare of Hollywood" with his thriller Scarface, the Howard Hughes epic considered the gangster movie to end all gangster movies. But Hecht rebelled against his Jewish bosses at the movie studios when they refused to make films about the Nazi menace. Leveraging his talents and celebrity connections to orchestrate a spectacular one-man publicity campaign, he mobilized pressure on the Roosevelt administration for an Allied plan to rescue Europe’s Jews. Then after the war, Hecht became notorious, embracing the labels “gangster” and “terrorist” in partnering with the mobster Mickey Cohen to smuggle weapons to Palestine in the fight for a Jewish state. The Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist is a biography of a great twentieth-century writer that treats his activism during the 1940s as the central drama of his life. It details the story of how Hecht earned admiration as a humanitarian and vilification as an extremist at this pivotal moment in history, about the origins of his beliefs in his varied experiences in American media, and about the consequences. Who else but Hecht could have drawn the admiration of Ezra Pound, clowned around with Harpo Marx, written Notorious and Spellbound with Alfred Hitchcock, launched Marlon Brando’s career, ghosted Marilyn Monroe’s memoirs, hosted Jack Kerouac and Salvador Dalí on his television talk show, and plotted revolt with Menachem Begin? Any lover of modern history who follows this journey through the worlds of gangsters, reporters, Jazz Age artists, Hollywood stars, movie moguls, political radicals, and guerrilla fighters will never look at the twentieth century in the same way again.

The Vice Lords

R. Lincoln Keiser
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Author : R. Lincoln Keiser
Publisher : Case Studies in Cultural Anthr
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : NWU:35556039221601

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This study of a Chicago street gang provides an insightful picture of gangs of similar age and composition operating in depressed areas and ghettos of large American cities.

From Disgrace to Dignity

Clemens Bartollas
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Author : Clemens Bartollas
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781532647147

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From Disgrace to Dignity by Clemens Bartollas Pdf

From Disgrace to Dignity: Redemption in the Life of Willie Rico Johnson examines the life of Rico Johnson who became the head of the Conservative Vice Lords, one of the largest street gangs in the United States. In addition to highlighting his life, this work considers how redemption has affected his life. In addition, Minister Rico is identified as a Godfather. Much like the Godfathers found in organized crime families, Rico sees himself as providing a positive force to Vice Lords’ gang members. On one hand, what this involves is taking care of their needs (he feeds 150 families a day) and, on the other hand, providing guidance and direction for members’ lives.

A World of Gangs

John Hagedorn
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Author : John Hagedorn
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816650668

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"On the street with gangs in three world cities - Chicago, Rio de Janeiro, and Capetown - Hagedorn discovers that many of them have institutionalized as a strategy to confront a hopeless cycle of poverty, racism, and oppression. The mhilistic appeal of gangsta rap and its ethic of survival "by any means necessary," he argues, provides vital insights into the ideology and persistence of gangs around the world. Proposing how gangs can be encouraged to overcome their violent tendencies, Hagedorn appeals to community leaders to use the urgency, outrage, and resistance common to both gang life and hip-hop to bring gangs into broader movements for social justice."--BOOK JACKET.

The Scots Magazine

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1782
Category : English literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433081660403

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Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:$B333402

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Great Britain. Parliament
The Parliamentary Debates official Report s Book PDF

Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:25921646

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The London Gazette

Anonim
The London Gazette Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1614 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10485539

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