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Havana Nocturne
- How the Mob Owned Cuba...and Then Lost It to the Revolution
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
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Bringing together long-buried historical information and English's own research in Havana - including interviews with the era's key survivors - Havana Nocturne takes listeners back to Cuba in the years when it was a veritable devil's playground for mob leaders Meyer Lansky and Charles "Lucky" Luciano. Thanks to strong ties with the island's brutal dictator, President Batista, the mob soon owned the biggest luxury hotels and casinos and launched an unprecedented tourist boom.
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"Crime writer English...unfolds a story whose main outline will be familiar to any fan of The Godfather: Part II, but whose twists and turns no screenplay could keep up with." ( Kirkus Reviews)
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The November 2006 assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander "Sasha" Litvinenko, who was poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium, caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit 43-year-old lay gaunt, bald, and dying in a hospital, the victim of a "tiny nuclear bomb". Suspicions swirled around Russia's FSB, the successor to the KGB, and the Putin regime.
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- De A. M. en 03-21-15
De: Alex Goldfarb, y otros
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Mafia Summit
- J. Edgar Hoover, the Kennedy Brothers, and the Meeting That Unmasked the Mob
- De: Gil Reavill
- Narrado por: Keith Szarabajka
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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In a small village in New York, mob bosses from all over the country - Vito Genovese, Carlo Gambino, Joe Bonanno, Joe Profaci, Cuba boss Santo Trafficante, Jr., and Paul Castellano - were nabbed by Sergeant Edgar D. Croswell as they gathered to sort out a bloody war of succession. For years FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had adamantly denied the existence of the Mafia, but Robert Kennedy immediately recognized the shattering importance of the Apalachin summit....
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Something I Didn't Know
- De Kevin en 03-29-13
De: Gil Reavill
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Kings of Cocaine
- Inside the Medellin Cartel - An Astonishing True Story of Murder Money and International Corruption
- De: Guy Gugliotta, Jeff Leen
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 14 h y 41 m
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This is the story of the most successful cocaine dealers in the world: Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Jorge Luis Ochoa Vasquez, Carlos Lehder Rivas, and Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha. In the 1980s, they controlled more than 50 percent of the cocaine flowing into the United States. The cocaine trade is capitalism on overdrive - supply meeting demand on exponential levels. Here you'll find the story of how the modern cocaine business started and how it turned a ragtag group of hippies and sociopaths into regal kings.
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Almost Perfect.
- De Nick en 10-31-18
De: Guy Gugliotta, y otros
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Get Capone
- The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster
- De: Jonathan Eig
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 17 h y 17 m
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Acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Jonathan Eig blows the lid off the Al Capone story. Based on never-before-seen government documents and newly discovered letters written by Al Capone himself, Get Capone presents America's greatest gangster as you’ve never seen him before.
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- De Jonathan en 05-13-10
De: Jonathan Eig
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The Mob and the City
- The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York
- De: C. Alexander Hortis
- Narrado por: LJ Ganser
- Duración: 9 h
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Forget what you think you know about the Mafia. After reading this book, even life-long mob aficionados will have a new perspective on organized crime. Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the Mafia came to dominate organized crime in New York City during the 1930s through 1950s.
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Hard one to rate....
- De Jeffery D. Giuliani en 09-24-20
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Miami
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Duración: 5 h y 12 m
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It is where Fidel Castro raised money to overthrow Batista and where two generations of Castro's enemies have raised armies to overthrow him, so far without success. It is where the bitter opera of Cuban exile intersects with the cynicism of U.S. foreign policy. It is a city whose skyrocketing murder rate is fueled by the cocaine trade, racial discontent, and an undeclared war on the island 90 miles to the south.
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Havana vanities come to dust in Miami.
- De Darwin8u en 09-22-15
De: Joan Didion
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A Very Expensive Poison
- The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West
- De: Luke Harding
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
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On November 1, 2006, journalist and Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London. He died twenty-two days later. The cause of death? Polonium—a rare, lethal, and highly radioactive substance. Here Luke Harding unspools a real-life political assassination story—complete with KGB, CIA, MI6, and Russian mobsters.
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Cover-To-Cover, This'll Have You Mindblown!
- De Gillian en 02-03-17
De: Luke Harding
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Gangsters of Harlem
- The Gritty Underworld of New York City's Most Famous Neighborhood
- De: Ron Chepesiuk
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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Author Ron Chepesiuk chronicles the little known history of organized crime in Harlem.
African American organized crime has had as significant an impact on its constituent community as Italian, Jewish, and Irish organized crime has had on theirs. Gangsters are every bit as colorful, intriguing, and powerful as Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, and have a fascinating history in gambling, prostitution, and drug dealing. In the late 1800s, Harlem became a highly fashionable neighborhood.
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weak --reader is terrible!
- De Meyer Rosenbloom en 10-18-13
De: Ron Chepesiuk
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The Man Without a Face
- The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
- De: Masha Gessen
- Narrado por: Masha Gessen
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
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The Man Without a Face is the chilling account of how a low-level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress and made his country once more a threat to its own people and to the world.
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A Preview of Authoritarianism in the USA
- De Jimmy O en 06-08-19
De: Masha Gessen
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Vegas and the Mob
- De: Al W. Moe
- Narrado por: Jason Sullivan
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
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Las Vegas was the Mob's greatest venture and most spectacular success, and through 40 years of frenzy, murder, deceit, scams, and skimming, the FBI listened on phone taps and did virtually nothing to stop the fun. This is the truth about the Mob's control of the casinos in Vegas like you've never heard it before, from start to finish.
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From Bugsy to Binion
- De Patrick King en 08-20-14
De: Al W. Moe
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The Tangled Web
- The Life and Death of Richard Cain—Chicago Cop and Mafia Hitman
- De: Michael Cain
- Narrado por: Clinton Wade
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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The Tangled Web tells the dramatic story of detective Richard Cain's criminal career as revealed by his half-brother, Michael. Cain led a double-life—one as a well-known cop who led raids that landed on the front pages, and the other as a "made man" in one of Chicago's most notorious mob families.
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Reviews
- De G. D. Hoppe en 11-19-20
De: Michael Cain
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The Year That Broke America
- An Immigration Crisis, a Terrorist Conspiracy, the Summer of Survivor, a Ridiculous Fake Billionaire, a Fight for Florida, and the 537 Votes That Changed Everything
- De: Andrew Rice
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 15 h y 37 m
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Before there was Coronavirus, before there was the contentious 2020 election or the entire Trump presidency, there was a turning-point year that proved momentous and transformative for American politics and the fate of the nation.
De: Andrew Rice
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The Man Who Killed Kennedy
- The Case Against LBJ
- De: Roger Stone
- Narrado por: David Rapkin
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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Lyndon Baines Johnson was a man of great ambition and enormous greed, both of which, in 1963, would threaten to destroy him. In the end, President Johnson would use power from his personal connections in Texas and from the underworld and from the government to escape an untimely end in politics and to seize even greater power. President Johnson, the thirty-sixth president of the United States, was the driving force behind a conspiracy to murder President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. In The Man Who Killed Kennedy, you will find out how and why he did it. Political consultant, strategist, and Libertarian Roger Stone has gathered documents and used his firsthand knowledge to construct the ultimate tome to prove that LBJ was not only involved in JFK's assassination, but was in fact the mastermind. With 2013 being the fiftieth anniversary of JFK's assassination, this is the perfect time for The Man Who Killed Kennedy to be available to readers. The research and information in this book is unprecedented, and as Roger Stone lived through it, he's the perfect person to bring it to everyone's attention.
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COMPELLING BOOK - THE CROOKS ARE IN POWER
- De Theo Tsourdalakis en 12-01-13
De: Roger Stone
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- De: T. J. English
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By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become an ethnic polyglot; one of the most powerful illicit organizations was none other than the Cuban mob. Known on both sides of the law as "the Corporation", the Cuban mob's power stemmed from a criminal culture embedded in south Florida's exile community - those who had been chased from the island by Castro's revolution and planned to overthrow the Marxist dictator and reclaim their nation.
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uncle joey approved
- De Anonymous User en 04-14-18
De: T. J. English
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Dangerous Rhythms
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Dangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic story of jazz and the underworld: a relationship fostered in some of 20th century America’s most notorious vice districts. For the first half of the century mobsters and musicians enjoyed a mutually beneficial partnership. By offering artists like Louis Armstrong, Earl “Fatha” Hines, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, and Ella Fitzgerald a stage, the mob, including major players Al Capone, Meyer Lansky, and Charlie “Lucky” Luciano, provided opportunities that would not otherwise have existed.
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Keep your YouTube handy
- De Vikon en 09-12-22
De: T. J. English
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The Savage City
- De: T. J. English
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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In the early 1960s, uncertainty and menace gripped New York, crystallizing in a poisonous divide between a deeply corrupt, cynical, and racist police force, and an African American community buffeted by economic distress, brutality, and narcotics. On August 28, 1963 - the day Martin Luther King Jr. declared "I have a dream" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial - two young white women were murdered in their Manhattan apartment. Dubbed the Career Girls Murders case, the crime sent ripples of fear throughout the city, as police scrambled fruitlessly for months to find the killer.
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I Highly Recommend This Book!
- De R en 05-15-13
De: T. J. English
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Paddy Whacked
- The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster
- De: T. J. English
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 21 h y 10 m
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In Paddy Whacked, best-selling author and organized crime expert T. J. English brings to life nearly two centuries of Irish American gangsterism, which spawned such unforgettable characters as Mike "King Mike" McDonald, Chicago's subterranean godfather; Big Bill Dwyer, New York's most notorious rumrunner during Prohibition; Mickey Featherstone, troubled Vietnam vet turned Westies gang leader; and James "Whitey" Bulger, the ruthless and seemingly untouchable Southie legend.
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First Half - 4 Stars - Second Half - 2 Stars
- De Lulu en 08-29-16
De: T. J. English
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The Westies
- Inside New York's Irish Mob
- De: T. J. English
- Narrado por: James Anderson Foster
- Duración: 13 h y 45 m
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It's men like Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone who gave Hell's Kitchen its name. In the mid-1970s, these two longtime friends take the reins of New York's Irish mob, using brute force to give it hitherto unthinkable power. Jimmy, a charismatic sociopath, is the leader. Mickey, whose memories of Vietnam torture him daily, is his enforcer. Together they make brutality their trademark, butchering bodies or hurling them out the window.
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Great book
- De Julio en 06-28-18
De: T. J. English
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Cuba Libre!
- Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History
- De: Tony Perrottet
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 12 h y 42 m
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Historian and journalist Tony Perrottet chronicles the events of the Cuban Revolution and the figures at the center of the guerrilla uprising: Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and the scrappy band of rebel men and women who followed them.
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HUGE anti-commie here...
- De Don C. en 10-22-21
De: Tony Perrottet
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The Corporation
- An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld
- De: T. J. English
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 19 h y 7 m
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By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become an ethnic polyglot; one of the most powerful illicit organizations was none other than the Cuban mob. Known on both sides of the law as "the Corporation", the Cuban mob's power stemmed from a criminal culture embedded in south Florida's exile community - those who had been chased from the island by Castro's revolution and planned to overthrow the Marxist dictator and reclaim their nation.
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uncle joey approved
- De Anonymous User en 04-14-18
De: T. J. English
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Dangerous Rhythms
- Jazz and the Underworld
- De: T. J. English
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 15 h y 9 m
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Dangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic story of jazz and the underworld: a relationship fostered in some of 20th century America’s most notorious vice districts. For the first half of the century mobsters and musicians enjoyed a mutually beneficial partnership. By offering artists like Louis Armstrong, Earl “Fatha” Hines, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, and Ella Fitzgerald a stage, the mob, including major players Al Capone, Meyer Lansky, and Charlie “Lucky” Luciano, provided opportunities that would not otherwise have existed.
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Keep your YouTube handy
- De Vikon en 09-12-22
De: T. J. English
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The Savage City
- De: T. J. English
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
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In the early 1960s, uncertainty and menace gripped New York, crystallizing in a poisonous divide between a deeply corrupt, cynical, and racist police force, and an African American community buffeted by economic distress, brutality, and narcotics. On August 28, 1963 - the day Martin Luther King Jr. declared "I have a dream" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial - two young white women were murdered in their Manhattan apartment. Dubbed the Career Girls Murders case, the crime sent ripples of fear throughout the city, as police scrambled fruitlessly for months to find the killer.
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I Highly Recommend This Book!
- De R en 05-15-13
De: T. J. English
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Paddy Whacked
- The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster
- De: T. J. English
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 21 h y 10 m
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In Paddy Whacked, best-selling author and organized crime expert T. J. English brings to life nearly two centuries of Irish American gangsterism, which spawned such unforgettable characters as Mike "King Mike" McDonald, Chicago's subterranean godfather; Big Bill Dwyer, New York's most notorious rumrunner during Prohibition; Mickey Featherstone, troubled Vietnam vet turned Westies gang leader; and James "Whitey" Bulger, the ruthless and seemingly untouchable Southie legend.
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First Half - 4 Stars - Second Half - 2 Stars
- De Lulu en 08-29-16
De: T. J. English
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The Westies
- Inside New York's Irish Mob
- De: T. J. English
- Narrado por: James Anderson Foster
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It's men like Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone who gave Hell's Kitchen its name. In the mid-1970s, these two longtime friends take the reins of New York's Irish mob, using brute force to give it hitherto unthinkable power. Jimmy, a charismatic sociopath, is the leader. Mickey, whose memories of Vietnam torture him daily, is his enforcer. Together they make brutality their trademark, butchering bodies or hurling them out the window.
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Great book
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Cuba Libre!
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Historian and journalist Tony Perrottet chronicles the events of the Cuban Revolution and the figures at the center of the guerrilla uprising: Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and the scrappy band of rebel men and women who followed them.
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HUGE anti-commie here...
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De: Tony Perrottet
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Where the Bodies Were Buried
- Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him
- De: T. J. English
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
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New York Times best-selling author T. J. English, the acclaimed master chronicler of the Irish Mob in America, offers a front row seat at the trial of one of the most notorious gangsters of all - Whitey Bulger - and pulls back the veil to expose a breathtaking history of corruption and malfeasance.
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The post-trial story of the Bulger legacy
- De Hugh F en 09-28-15
De: T. J. English
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American Mafia
- A History of Its Rise to Power
- De: Thomas Reppetto
- Narrado por: Paul Costanzo
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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Organized crime - the Italian American kind - has long been a source of popular entertainment and legend. Now Thomas Reppetto provides a balanced history of the Mafia's rise - from the 1880s to the post-World War II era - that is as exciting as it is authoritative. Structuring his narrative around a series of case histories featuring such infamous characters as Lucky Luciano and Al Capone, Reppetto draws on a lifetime of field experience and access to unseen documents to show us a locally grown Mafia.
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Mob at its best
- De Thomas en 02-14-23
De: Thomas Reppetto
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L.A. Noir
- The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
- De: John Buntin
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 17 h
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Midcentury Los Angeles: A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America", a land of sunshine and orange groves, Midwestern values, and Hollywood stars, protected by the world's most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of "pleasure girls" and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two men - one L.A.'s most notorious gangster, the other its most famous police chief - each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city.
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A good (but a little corny) history of LA
- De Jimmy en 10-23-12
De: John Buntin
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City of Nets
- A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's
- De: Otto Friedrich, Glen David Gold - foreword
- Narrado por: P.J. Ochlan
- Duración: 25 h y 57 m
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In 1939, 50 million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios were faltering....
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Disjointed and flawed
- De A. N. Onymous en 01-18-22
De: Otto Friedrich, y otros
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The Quiet Don
- The Untold Story of Mafia Kingpin Russell Bufalino
- De: Matt Birkbeck
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
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Secretive - even reclusive - Russell Bufalino quietly built his organized crime empire in the decades between Prohibition and the Carter presidency. His reach extended far beyond the coal country of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and quaint Amish farms near Lancaster. Bufalino had a hand in global, national, and local politics of the largest American cities, many of its major industries, and controlled the powerful Teamsters Union. His influence also reached the highest levels of Pennsylvania government and halls of Congress, and his legacy left a culture of corruption that continues to this day.
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Important But Edited By Lawyers?
- De Ted en 04-03-14
De: Matt Birkbeck
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Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
- An American History
- De: Ada Ferrer
- Narrado por: Alma Cuervo, Ada Ferrer - prologue
- Duración: 23 h y 13 m
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In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued—through the tenure of ten American presidents and the fifty-year rule of Fidel Castro. His death in 2016, and the retirement of his brother and successor Raúl Castro in 2021, have spurred questions about the country’s future. Spanning more than five centuries, Cuba provides us with a front-row seat as we witness the evolution of the modern nation.
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US Bash Job
- De Derek & Amber Witt en 04-14-22
De: Ada Ferrer
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The Sinatra Club
- My Life Inside the New York Mafia
- De: Sal Polisi, Steve Dougherty
- Narrado por: Pete Simonelli
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
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The Mob was the biggest, richest business in America...until it was destroyed from within by drugs, greed, and the decline of its traditional crime family values. And by guys like Sal Polisi. As a member of New York's feared Colombo Family, Polisi ran the Sinatra Club, an illegal after-hours gambling den that was a magic kingdom of crime and a hangout for up-and-coming mobsters. But the nonstop thrills of Polisi's criminal glory days abruptly ended.
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The gangster with a heart of gold...
- De Rodney en 03-03-18
De: Sal Polisi, y otros
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Cuba Libre
- De: Elmore Leonard
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
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War in Cuba isn't Ben Tyler's concern. Still, sailing mares and guns into Havana harbor in 1898 - right past the submerged wreckage of the U.S. battleship Maine - may not be the smartest thing the recently prison-sprung horse wrangler ever did. Neither is shooting one of the local Guardia, though the pompous peacock deserved it. Now Tyler's sitting tight in a vermin-infested Cuban stockade waiting to face a firing squad....
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Leonard + Guidall = great listening
- De Kathy en 03-02-11
De: Elmore Leonard
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Freedom's Mirror
- Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
- De: Ada Ferrer
- Narrado por: Vivia Font
- Duración: 12 h y 57 m
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During the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, arguably the most radical revolution of the modern world, slaves and former slaves succeeded in ending slavery and establishing an independent state. Yet on the Spanish island of Cuba barely fifty miles distant, the events in Haiti helped usher in the antithesis of revolutionary emancipation. When Cuban planters and authorities saw the devastation of the neighboring colony, they rushed to fill the void left in the world market for sugar, to buttress the institutions of slavery and colonial rule, and to prevent "another Haiti".
De: Ada Ferrer
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Fidel Castro
- A Spoken Autobiography
- De: Fidel Castro, Ignacio Ramonet
- Narrado por: Todd McLaren, Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 26 h y 12 m
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For decades, people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Ignacio Ramonet, the celebrated editor in chief of Le Monde diplomatique, has finally succeeded. For the first time, in a series of extensive and probing interviews, Fidel Castro describes his life from the 1950s to the present day.
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In His Own Words
- De Roy en 06-09-09
De: Fidel Castro, y otros
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1960
- LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon--The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
- De: David Pietrusza
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 18 h y 40 m
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It was the election that would ultimately give America "Camelot" and its tragic aftermath. 1960 is a stunning recreation of the bare-knuckle politics of the primaries, the party conventions' backroom dealings, the unprecedented television debates, along with hot-button issues of race, religion, and foreign policy. And, at the center of it all, three future presidents - Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Richard Nixon. In this essential work of history, David Pietrusza chronicles 1960's struggle for power by bringing to life its towering events and personalities, unlocking its secrets, and turning expert scholarship into rich, human storytelling.
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No F words, but the N-word is allowed
- De Porter en 12-04-18
De: David Pietrusza
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The Long Surrender
- De: Burke Davis
- Narrado por: J. Rodney Turner
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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In April 1865, Richmond fell to the Union army and Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to his Northern counterpart, Ulysses S. Grant, at the Appomattox Court House. But the Civil War was far from over. Determined to keep Confederate dreams of secession alive, President Jefferson Davis and his cabinet fled the burning capital city. With Union troops in pursuit, the fugitives rallied loyalists across the South and made plans to escape to Cuba. Finally captured in Irwinville, Georgia, the former US senator and secretary of war became a prisoner of the American government.
De: Burke Davis
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- crazybatcow
- 01-26-10
Interesting and educational
I started this having no idea that the Mob had been involved in Cuba. In fact, I knew nothing about Cuba and its relationship with the United States so it was quite interesting to learn how the relationship could have been much different now if the American government and the mobsters had picked a different horse to back, or perhaps if Castro had been killed in one of his early coup attempts.
Anyway, it was a slow trek through the story because none of the politics, or the mob relations or the characters involved were familiar to me. But it was enlightening in how it explained the background to the current US-Cuba relations.
The narrator is okay... a bit boring but at least he's understandable.
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- Dr.
- 01-28-15
Socialism beats the mob
A good example of how greed, sleaze and criminality can defeated but not in the USA. No lessons were learned.
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- DIYer Mom
- 11-15-18
Interesting but a little bland
Learned a lot about both sides of the isle and not just America’s viewpoint. I can see how Castro might have been viewed differently than just a dictator.
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- Stacy
- 01-26-15
Great story, especially relevant now.
This is an amazing and unusual story. It is primarily about how the mob ran Havana's casino business, but this story is inseparable from the story of the Cuban Revolution that ended it all. It's a great piece of history to learn about, especially given recent events between the US and Cuba.
Some listeners complained about the plain delivery style. I would agree that it is pretty dry, but it didn't bother me. It is non-fiction, after all.
My only complaint about the narration is that it was not done by a native Spanish speaker. The narrator learned the basic rules, so it wasn't the worst I've heard. But can be a little challenging to unravel some of the the names of songs and people (for example, in the song title "Como Fue", somehow "fue" ends up having two syllables).
Overall, I highly recommend it. The subject matter is of course, at least R-rated. It would not be a good choice for your family vacation with elementary-school kids.
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- J. Gleason
- 06-06-17
a good read before heading to Havana
fascinating story that captures the period and has lots of behind the scenes anecdotes. I would recommend it.
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- R Haff
- 01-16-21
The only book on Cuba you will ever need to read.
This NEEDED to be written..finally the unbiased story of this fascinating period. If you want to know what the heck was going on in Cuba immediately before Castro took over, and how and why he was able to pull off the impossible...a successful revolution; including the dictator Batista, American policy, the American Mob, Meyer Lansky, Casinos, etc; and how they all had a hand in this fascinating history...then this is THE book for you. And it is a page-turner...TJ English has taken this fascinating history and written it in a highly readable fashion, (and was obviously thorough in his research). I couldn't put it down. I've read most of the books on this subject at this point, and this book is by far the best.
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- Justin
- 07-03-18
believe the hype
Havana Nocturne is everything it purports to be and more. exhaustively researched, elegantly written, a story boldly told.
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- Stacy
- 05-06-09
Hot Cuban Nights
Story that sounds like a perfect screenplay, but was all true. Pre-communist Cuba had something for everyone: gambling entertainment,and live sex shows. Made Las Vegas look like a church potluck.
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- HIYBRID
- 03-31-15
So that's where my uncles went on vacation
Fishing my ass uncle Danny you went to Havana for this. Aunt Millie never knew...
Nor did any of us guess how incredibly convoluted the mystery was. I never thought that a dollar could stretch so far as to be in the pocket of six mobsters and a president at the same time. Since I grew up on the east coast when this all was happening and the names are all familiar memories this tale of the corruption in Cuba is even more relevant now that we are trying to normalize the last 50 yrs of idiocy. More than adequate narration as well...
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- Rod
- 05-14-11
Mostly interesting, very biased
I will say the book is quite interesting, however it’s also annoying. Just understand going in that the US is evil and all white people are evil and just out to exploit Cuba and its locals. Also know that Castro is awesome and that he loves freedom. If you can stand that PC nonsense and you can make it past the hour long descriptions about 14-inch members and other sex acts you’ll find an interesting story you’ve probably never heard. How accurate is the information? I have my doubts as there seems to be a lot of conjecture, but then again the mob isn’t exactly big on documenting everything. As for the sex stuff it’s only annoying in that it just goes on and on. I don’t have a real problem with it, if it was brief and used to set a mood that would be fine but seeing as he says the mob didn’t have much to do with the sex stuff why do we need so much of it. I have google if I want porn, an audio description of what would go in stage performers coffee during sex shows doesn’t really do much for me.
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