Mickey Cohen
Subtitle: the life and crimes of L.A.'s notorious mobster
By: Tere Tereba
Publisher: MJF Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9781606711637
Subjects: Criminals; Biography; Gangsters; Organized crime; History; Criminels; Biographies; Crime organisé; Histoire
Description: When Bugsy Siegel was executed, ruthless Mickey Cohen, a former pro boxer and cunning provocateur, took over criminal activity in L.A., a move sanctioned by Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello. Attaining immense power and dominance, from the late 1940s until 1976 the semi-literate Angeleno became an above-the-fold newspaper name, accumulating a remarkable count of more than 1,000 front pages in Los Angeles papers alone, and hundreds of articles in national and international periodicals.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-316) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue a dangerous place -- -- Act I.; title: The California wildcat -- -- 1.; title: Boyle Heights boychik -- -- 2.; title: School of hard knocks -- -- 3.; title: The coasters -- -- 4.; title: Fields of manna -- -- 5.; title: Young blood -- -- 6.; title: Picked from the chorus -- -- 7.; title: Hollywood Byzantine -- -- Act II.; title: King of the Sunset Strip -- -- 8.; title: Puttin'on the dog -- -- 9.; title: A thousand hinky plays -- -- 10.; title: High jingo -- -- 11.; title: Smog alert -- -- 12.; title: Star-crossed -- -- 13.; title: Bum-steered and bum-rapped -- -- 14.; title: Tsuris -- -- 15.; title: Death and taxes -- -- 16.; title: Judas and Iago -- -- Act III.; title: The long goodbye -- -- 17.; title: Shifting winds -- -- 18.; title: Brave new world -- -- 19.; title: Sacrificial lamb -- -- 20.; title: Ink junky -- -- 21.; title: The Oscar -- -- 22.; title: Bombshells and Bobby -- -- 23.; title: End games -- -- 24.; title: Relic.