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Wiseguys in Love

Author : C. Clark Criscuolo
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994-12
Category : Mafia
ISBN : 0821748025

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Wiseguys in Love by C. Clark Criscuolo Pdf

In this high-spirited and witty first novel, Criscuolo serves up a wickedly funny, charming romp--where love is murder and the Mafia is the matchmaker. Goodfellas meets Bonfire of the Vanities.--Los Angeles Daily News. Martin's.

GoodFellas

Author : Nicholas Pileggi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408828557

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GoodFellas by Nicholas Pileggi Pdf

The enthralling story of Henry Hill's life as a gangster and notorious participation in the Witness Protection Programme, made into the hugely acclaimed Martin Scorsese film _________________________ 'Absolutely engrossing' - New York Times 'The best book ever written on organised crime' - Cosmopolitan 'A riveting account of organised crime as a way of life ... extraordinary' - Publishers Weekly _________________________ 'At the age of twelve my ambition was to be a gangster. To me being a wiseguy was better than being president of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world.' GoodFellas is Henry Hill's own story, telling the fascinating and sometimes brutal details of the day-to-day life of a working New York mobster - the violence, wild spending sprees, his wife, his mistress, his code of honour. From the small-time scamming of his early years, his first arrest at the age of sixteen and initiation into the dealings of his wiseguy friends and bosses, Henry Hill tells of the good times, dodgy dealings, indulgences, and the insularity of the mob-controlled neighbourhoods. But things start to go too far. To save his own life, Hill turns into a Federal witness, and the mob is to this day still hunting him down for revealing their involvement in hundreds of crimes including arson, extortion, hijacking, the six-million dollar Lufthansa heist (the most successful cash robbery in US history), and murder.

Wise Guy

Author : Guy Kawasaki
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780525538622

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Wise Guy by Guy Kawasaki Pdf

Silicon Valley icon and bestselling author Guy Kawasaki shares the unlikely stories of his life and the lessons we can draw from them. Guy Kawasaki has been a fixture in the tech world since he was part of Apple's original Macintosh team in the 1980s. He's widely respected as a source of wisdom about entrepreneurship, venture capital, marketing, and business evangelism, which he's shared in bestselling books such as The Art of the Start and Enchantment. But before all that, he was just a middle-class kid in Hawaii, a grandson of Japanese immigrants, who loved football and got a C+ in 9th grade English. Wise Guy, his most personal book, is about his surprising journey. It's not a traditional memoir but a series of vignettes. He toyed with calling it Miso Soup for the Soul, because these stories (like those in the Chicken Soup series) reflect a wide range of experiences that have enlightened and inspired him. For instance, you'll follow Guy as he . . . • Gets his first real job in the jewelry business--which turned out to be surprisingly useful training for the tech world. • Disparages one of Apple's potential partners in front of that company's CEO, at the sneaky instigation of Steve Jobs. • Blows up his Apple career with a single sentence, after Jobs withholds a pre-release copy of the Think Different ad campaign: "That's okay, Steve, I don't trust you either." • Reevaluates his self-importance after being mistaken for Jackie Chan by four young women. • Takes up surfing at age 62--which teaches him that you can discover a new passion at any age, but younger is easier! Guy covers everything from moral values to business skills to parenting. As he writes, "I hope my stories help you live a more joyous, productive, and meaningful life. If Wise Guy succeeds at this, then that's the best story of all."

Wiseguys In Love

Author : C. Clark Criscuolo
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466889460

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Wiseguys In Love by C. Clark Criscuolo Pdf

You think you've got problems? You could be Michael Bonello, a nice guy who dropped out of law school only to be inducted against is will into the neighborhood mob. Michael really isn't very good at the whole wiseguy thing--you can't be a proper hit man when your mother insists upon setting a curfew and hiding your bullets. You could be Lisa Johnson, a wholesome midwestern girl adrift in New York City, who gets mixed up with would-be mobster Michael and his Mafia entourage. Worse, you could accidentally shoot a marked man and set off a madcap chain of events that throws you into car chases, embroils you in assassination attempts, and gets you kidnapped by a gangster who wants to introduce you to his mother. Your social life could be a big hit, in more ways than one. In this high-spiritied and witty first novel, C. Clark Criscuolo wins hearts with a tale of disorganized crime. Take When Harry Met Sally, add a heaping helping of The Godfather, and the result is a wickedly funny, charming, and ever-so-slightly sinister romp through the high life and the low life of New York--where love is murder and the Mafia is the matchmaker.

Warners Wiseguys

Author : Scott Allen Nollen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476610047

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Warners Wiseguys by Scott Allen Nollen Pdf

As three of the most prominent actors of the early studio system, James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, and Humphrey Bogart played an unparalleled role in the rise of the Warner Brothers Studio. These “Warners Wiseguys” are now virtually synonymous with the studio’s era of gritty gangster films. This study of their interwoven studio-contract careers highlights the similarities of their personalities and their struggles with harsh typecasting. It details and comments critically on each of their combined 112 Warners films. Complete with commentary from the author and other film buffs. An appendix provides a filmographic guide to the films discussed, including lists of primary actors, release dates, directorial credits, and running times for each film.

Pasta Fazool for the Wiseguy's Soul

Author : Brian M. Thomsen
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780740789298

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Pasta Fazool for the Wiseguy's Soul by Brian M. Thomsen Pdf

After all that theft, racketeering, adultery, murder, and going to the mattresses, even a wiseguy needs a little pasta fazool for the soul. A hilarious self-help parody based on the exploits of Don Corleone, Anthony Soprano, and those other "made" guys. If your conscience is growing weary because you've had to off your best friend or you've recently learned exactly what was inside that envelope you were asked to deliver, take heart: Brian M. Thomsen and his associate, Don Minestrone, have got your back with more than 100 tales of redemptive goomba guidance and mobster lore. In the tradition of Chicken Soup for the Soul meets The Departed comes tales of family loyalty, mobster morals, and criminal compassion. So the next time you or someone from your clan goes to the mattresses on some trumped-up racketeering charge, we suggest you leave the gun and take the cannoli-and this book, of course.

From Wiseguys to Wise Men

Author : Fred Gardaphe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135397791

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From Wiseguys to Wise Men by Fred Gardaphe Pdf

The gangster, in the hands of the Italian American artist, becomes a telling figure in the tale of American race, gender, and ethnicity - a figure that reflects the autobiography of an immigrant group just as it reflects the fantasy of a native population. From Wiseguys to Wise Men studies the figure of the gangster and explores its social function in the construction and projection of masculinity in the United States. By looking at the cultural icon of the gangster through the lens of gender, this book presents new insights into material that has been part of American culture for close to 100 years.

Love's Next Meeting

Author : Aaron Lecklider
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780520395589

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Love's Next Meeting by Aaron Lecklider Pdf

How queerness and radical politics intersected--earlier than you thought. Well before Stonewall, a broad cross section of sexual dissidents took advantage of their space on the margins of American society to throw themselves into leftist campaigns. Sensitive already to sexual marginalization, they also saw how class inequality was exacerbated by the Great Depression, witnessing the terrible bread lines and bread riots of the era. They participated in radical labor organizing, sympathized like many with the early prewar Soviet Union, contributed to the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, opposed US police and state harassment, fought racial discrimination, and aligned themselves with the dispossessed. Whether they were themselves straight, gay, or otherwise queer, they brought sexual dissidence and radicalism into conversation at the height of the Left's influence on American culture. Combining rich archival research with inventive analysis of art and literature, Love's Next Meeting explores the relationship between homosexuality and the Left in American culture between 1920 and 1960. Aaron S. Lecklider uncovers a lively cast of individuals and dynamic expressive works, revealing remarkably progressive engagement with homosexuality among radicals, workers, and the poor. Leftists connected sexual dissidence with radical gender politics, antiracism, and challenges to censorship and obscenity laws through the 1920s and 1930s. In the process, a wide array of activists, organizers, artists, and writers laid the foundation for a radical movement through which homosexual lives and experiences were given shape and new political identities were forged. Love's Next Meeting cuts to the heart of some of the biggest questions in American history: questions about socialism, about sexuality, about the supposed clash still making headlines today between leftist politics and identity politics. What emerges is a dramatic, sexually vibrant story of the shared struggles for liberation across the twentieth century.

I Married an Ex-Wise Guy

Author : Selia Sunshine
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781489721600

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I Married an Ex-Wise Guy by Selia Sunshine Pdf

The book is written in a series of memory-lane vignettes depicting memories of her life with an ex-wise guy. The book starts at the end of the story and through the vignettes of the ups and downs of living with an ex-wise guy and how a person’s past can follow them wherever they go. The story ends where it started. The love story between the couple, who met later in life, is dramatic and quite heated. The depiction of how hospice helped her through her husband’s dying process was a dramatic life-learning situation.

Film, Television and the Psychology of the Social Dream

Author : Robert W. Rieber,Robert J. Kelly
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461471752

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Film, Television and the Psychology of the Social Dream by Robert W. Rieber,Robert J. Kelly Pdf

​This book demonstrates how social distress or anxiety is reflected, modified, and evolves through the medium of the motion picture. Tracing cinema from its earliest forms, the authors show how film is a perfect medium for generating and projecting dreams, fantasies, and nightmares, on the individual as well as the societal level. Arising at the same time as Freud’s influential ideas, cinema has been intertwined with the wishes and fears of the greater culture and has served as a means of experiencing those feelings in a communal and taming environment. From Munsterberg’s original pronouncements in the early 20th century about the psychology of cinema, through the pioneering films of Melies, the works of the German expressionists, to James Bond and today’s superheroes this book weaves a narrative highlighting the importance of the social dream. It develops the idea that no art form goes beyond the ordinary process of consciousness in the same way as film, reflecting, as it does, the cognitive, emotional, and volitional aspects of human nature.​

An Offer We Can't Refuse

Author : George De Stefano
Publisher : Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0865479623

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An Offer We Can't Refuse by George De Stefano Pdf

The Mafia has maintained an enduring hold on the American cultural imagination--even as it continues to wrongly color our real-life perception of Italian Americans. Journalist and cultural critic De Stefano takes a look at the origins and prevalence of the Mafia mythos in America. Beginning with a consideration of Italian emigration in the early twentieth century and the fear and prejudice--among both Americans and Italians--that informed our earliest conception of what was the largest immigrant group to enter the United States, De Stefano explores how these impressions laid the groundwork for the images so familiar to us today and uses them to illuminate and explore the variety and allure of Mafia stories. At the same time, he addresses the lingering power of the goodfella cliché, which makes it all but impossible to green-light a project about the Italian American experience not set in gangland.--From publisher description.

The Wise Guy Cookbook

Author : Henry Hill,Priscilla Davis
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0451207068

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The Wise Guy Cookbook by Henry Hill,Priscilla Davis Pdf

Now, in his inimitable style, Henry Hill tells some spicy stories of his life in the Mob and shows you how to whip up his favorite dishes, Sicilian style—even when you’re cooking on the run. Learn delicious recipes that make even the toughest tough guy beg for more… Henry Hill was a born wiseguy. At the pizzeria where he worked as a kid, he learned to substitute pork for veal in cutlets—which came in handy later when the bankroll was low. At thirteen, he got his first percentage from a local deli—that lost business when he started supplying the neighborhood wiseguys with his own heroes. And what great heroes they were. Once he entered Witness Protection, though, Hill found himself in places where prosciutto was impossible to get and gravy was something you put on mashed potatoes. So he learned to fake it when necessary (for example, Romano with white pepper took the place of real pecorino-siciliano cheese), and wherever he found himself, Hill managed to keep good Italian food on the table. He still brings this flair for improvisation to his cooking. No recipe is set in stone. And substitutions are listed in case you need them for these recipes and many more: Mom’s Antipasto • Sunday Gravy (Meat Sauce) • Cheater’s Chicken Stock • Striped Bass for Paulie • Fat Larry’s Pizza Dough • Henry’s Kickback Antipasti Hero • Sicilian Easter Bread with Colored Eggs • Clams Casino • Osso Buco • Oven Penitentiary Sauce with Sausage • Michael’s Favorite Ziti with Meat Sauce

Mafia Wiseguys

Author : Robert Rudolf
Publisher : SP Books
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Mafia
ISBN : 1561711950

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Mafia Wiseguys by Robert Rudolf Pdf

For years the FBI had worked hard to indict members of the Lucchese crime family for everything from racketeering to murder. Together with the Justice Department's special prosecutor, the Feds were poised to bring down the Godfather and his dons and henchmen. But incredibly, the mob would dance their way out of the courtroom. Photos.

Wiseguy

Author : Nicholas Pileggi
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781982129903

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Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi Pdf

Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster’s life—has been hailed as “the best book ever written on organized crime” (Cosmopolitan). This is the true-crime bestseller that was the basis for Martin Scorsese’s film masterpiece GoodFellas, which brought to life the violence, the excess, the families, the wives and girlfriends, the drugs, the payoffs, the paybacks, the jail time, and the Feds…with Henry Hill’s crackling narration drawn straight out of Wiseguy and overseeing all the unforgettable action. “Nonstop...absolutely engrossing” (The New York Times Book Review). Read it and experience the secret life inside the mob—from one who’s lived it.

Jack Parker's Wiseguys

Author : Tim Rappleye
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781512601657

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Jack Parker's Wiseguys by Tim Rappleye Pdf

Over the winter of 1977-78, anyone within shouting distance of a two-mile stretch of Boston's Commonwealth Avenue - from Fenway Park to the trolley curve at Packard's Corner - found themselves pulled into the orbit of college hockey. The hottest ticket in a sports-mad city was Boston University's Terriers, a team so tough it was said they didn't have fans - they took hostages. Eschewing the usual recruiting pools in Canada, Jack Parker and his coaching staff assembled a squad that included three stars from nearby Charlestown, then known as the "armed robbery capital of America." Jack Parker's Wiseguys is the story of a high-flying, headline-dominating, national championship squad led by three future stars of the Miracle on Ice, the medal-round game the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team won against the heavily favored Soviet Union. Now retired, Parker is a thoughtful statesman for the sport, a revered figure who held the longest tenure of any coach in Boston sports history. But during the 1977-78 season, he was just five years into his reign - and only a decade or so older than his players. Fiery, mercurial, as tough as any of his tough guys, Parker and his team were to face the pressure-cooker expectations of four previous also-ran seasons, further heightened by barroom brawls, off-the-ice shenanigans, and the citywide shutdown caused by one of the biggest blizzards to ever hit the Northeast. This season was to be Parker's watershed, a roller-coaster ride of nail-biting victories and unimaginable tragedy, played out in increasingly strident headlines as his team opened the season with an unprecedented twenty-one straight wins. Only the second loss of the year eliminated the Terriers from their league playoffs and possibly from national contention; hours after the game Parker's wife died from cancer. The story of how the team responded - coming back to win the national championship a week after Parker buried his wife - makes a compelling tale for Boston sports fans and everyone else who feels a thrill of pride at America's unlikely win over the Soviet national team - a victory forged on Commonwealth Avenue in that bitter, beautiful winter of '78.