Gangster to Doctor
Subtitle: The True Life Story of a South Florida Gangster Who Became a Ph.D.
Publisher: Sampson Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780974941363
Table of contents: title: 1. The Value of Life’s Early Lessons	1; title: 2. Educated by Race, Betrayal, and a Green Beret	15; title: 3. Valuable Lessons from a Neighborhood Pimp	31; title: 4. My First Posse, Shots Fired, and the Getaway	49; title: 5. High School Graduate or Gangster Dropout	63; title: 6. Homeless and Hungry at Seventeen	77; title: 7. The Worst Job I Ever Had	85; title: 8. For the Love of Money	97; title: 9. Protecting an Unpopular Leader	115; title: 10. Women, Wealth, and Infidelity	125; title: 11. Success Never Comes Without Envy	137; title: 12. The Two Contracts on My Life	149; title: 13. Betrayed, Dumped, and Targeted	161; title: 14. What are Friends for? The Setup	173; title: 15. Dealing with Threats	185; title: 16. Gangsters Have Friends Too	201; title: 17. My Father: Murdered in Cold Blood	217; title: 18. Drug Smuggling: Getting Caught in Another Country	225; title: 19. Drug Dealer Earnings: The Net Profit	239; title: 20. The Million-Dollar FBI Investigation	247; title: 21. Twelve County Jails that Couldn’t Break Me	261; title: 22. A Twisted System: The Sad and Shocking Truth about 	Federal Prison	273; title: 23. When It Finally Sinks In That It’s Over	289; title: 24. Prison Compound or College Campus: My Choice	299; title: 25. My First and Second College Degrees	307; title: 26. Beating the Odds: Earning a Ph.D.	323; title: 27. The Last Fight: I Couldn’t Afford to Lose	333; title: Index	349