Whitey
Subtitle: the life of America's most notorious mob boss
By: Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill
Contributors: O'Neill, Gerard
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9780307986535
Subjects: Organized crime; Gangsters; Case studies; Fugitives from justice; Biography
Description: Whitey Bulger was the crime boss and killer who brought the FBI to its knees. Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill examine and reveal the factors and forces that created the monster. This is a deeply rendered portrait of evil that spans nearly a century, taking Whitey from the streets of his boyhood Southie in the 1940s to his cell in Alcatraz in the 1950s to his cunning, corrupt pact with the FBI in the 1970s and, finally, to Santa Monica, California where for fifteen years he was hiding in plain sight as one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted. In a lifetime of crime and murder that ended with his arrest in June 2011, Whitey Bulger became one of the most powerful and deadly crime bosses of the twentieth century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-393) and index.
Table of contents: title: September 18, 1981; title: Riverhead; title: Old harbor; title: "Where's Jim?"; title: The smile and swagger; title: AWOL : 1949-1953; title: Packing heat : 1953-55; title: The informer : 1956; title: "I'm no angel, but ..."; title: Acid head : 1957; title: Ringleader; title: Alcatraz : 1959-62; title: The end of time; title: Chandler's summit; title: Go and talk; title: My own G-man; title: Wild west broadway; title: Savage genius; title: Categorical bill and a Tulsa trilogy; title: Gravediggers; title: Thirty two words; title: The band of brothers; title: Timed out justice; title: No stone left unturned; title: Charlie and Carol; title: "Charlie will meet you in the garage."