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开 本: 大32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780375705472
Exuberant. . .a vivid narrative. . . . Tough Jews brings
familiar history back to life.” –The New York Times
“Warmly and affectionately rendered. . .these vignettes bring a
lost generation of antiheroes to life.” –The Boston Globe
“Vivid and colorful. . .fascinating.” –Los Angeles Times
“If the Mafia has its Mario Puzo, the Jewish troops of Murder, Inc.
deserve their Rich Cohen. . .entertaining, defiantly romantic.”
–Newsweek — Review
together to discuss basketball, boxing, the weather back east, and
the Jewish gangsters of yesteryear. Meyer Lansky. Bugsy Siegel.
Louis Lepke, the self-effacing mastermind of Murder, Inc. Red
Levine, the Orthodox hit man who refused to kill on the Sabbath.
Abe “Kid Twist” Reles, who looked like a mama’s boy but once buried
a rival alive. These are just some of the vibrant, vicious
characters Rich Cohen’s father reminisced about and the author
evokes so pungently in Tough Jews.
Tracing a generation of Jewish gangsters from the candy stores of
Brownsville to the clubhouses of the Lower East Side–and,
occasionally, to suites at the Waldorf–Cohen creates a densely
anecdotal and gruesomely funny history of muscle, moxie, and money.
Filled with fixers and schlammers, the squeal of tires and the
rattle of gunfire, his book shatters stereotypes as deftly as its
subjects once shattered kneecaps.
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