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Gary Sleeper
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In the early days, before he founded the Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas and became the patron saint of the World Series of Poker, cowboy Benny Binion was a horse trader, a bootlegger, and the "boss gambler" of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. This book traces Binion's rise to power in the Dallas underworld during World War II. By 1946, more than two dozen "casinos" operated illegally in downtown Dallas in hotel suites, and Benny Binion owned at least half of them. The cowboy's only true rival for gambling supremacy in Texas was his former partner, Herbert Noble.
For the first time ever, Gary Sleeper reveals the intricacies of the bloody feud between Binion and Noble, and their brutal war for control of Dallas and Fort Worth. Included are details of the 13 attempts on Noble's life, the tragic murder of his wife, and Noble's bizarre plot to gain revenge by bombing Las Vegas from a private airplane.
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The New England Mafia was a hugely powerful organization that survived by using violence to ruthlessly crush anyone that threatened it, or its lucrative gambling, loansharking, bootlegging, and other enterprises. From information based on newly declassified documents and the use of underworld sources, Boston Mob spans the gutters and alleyways of East Boston, Providence, and Charlestown to the halls of Congress in Washington, D.C., and Boston's Beacon Hill. Its players include governors and mayors, and the Mafia Commission of New York City.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining
- De joeyg1963 en 12-07-19
De: Marc Songini
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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
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 177
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 85
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Get this book
- De Jonathan en 05-13-10
De: Jonathan Eig
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Texas Ranger
- The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde
- De: John Boessenecker
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 17 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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From the horseback days of the Old West through the gangster days of the 1930s, Hamer stood on the front lines of some of the most important and exciting periods in American history. He participated in the Bandit War of 1915, survived the climactic gunfight in the last blood feud of the Old West, battled the Mexican Revolution's spillover across the border, protected African Americans from lynch mobs and the Ku Klux Klan, and ran down gangsters, bootleggers, and Communists.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I love Frank Hamer, but Boessenecker's left leanin
- De A. Taylor en 04-06-19
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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 491
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 436
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 438
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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5 out of 5 stars
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uncle joey approved
- De Anonymous User en 04-14-18
De: T. J. English
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Killing the Dream
- James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- De: Gerald Posner
- Narrado por: Brian Holsopple
- Duración: 13 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 32
In the three decades since April 4, 1968, when Martin Luther King, Jr., was shot to death in Memphis, scores of books and articles have questioned whether James Earl Ray, King's killer, acted alone or was part of a larger conspiracy. Now, based on explosive new interviews, confidential files, and previously undisclosed evidence, best-selling author Gerald Posner finally resolves the simple truth of the last great political murder mystery of the 1960s, definitively proving that Ray acted alone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening
- De Thornton Mellon en 05-19-19
De: Gerald Posner
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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 589
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 521
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 520
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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4 out of 5 stars
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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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Animal
- The Bloody Rise and Fall of the Mob's Most Feared Assassin
- De: Casey Sherman
- Narrado por: Jim Goad
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 166
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 137
Joe Barboza knew that there were two requirements for getting inducted into the Mafia. You had to be Sicilian. And you had to commit a contract killing. The New Bedford-born mobster was a proud Portuguese, not Sicilian, but his dream to be part of La Cosa Nostra proved so strong that he thought he could create a loophole. Barboza’s legacy, buried for years thanks to the murders or deaths of its participants, is finally coming to light and being told in its unvarnished brutality by one of America’s most respected true crime writers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well done. 5 stars.
- De robert price en 03-03-19
De: Casey Sherman
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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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General4 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 91
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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3 out of 5 stars
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From Bugsy to Binion
- De Patrick King en 08-20-14
De: Al W. Moe
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Go Down Together
- The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde
- De: Jeff Guinn
- Narrado por: Jonathan Hogan
- Duración: 16 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,386
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,194
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,198
With dramatic flair, Jeff Guinn delivers the definitive portrait of Bonnie and Clyde. These media-savvy outlaws appealed to America's Depression-era hunger for swashbuckling characters. Glowing radio and newspaper reports transformed these "public enemies" into celebrities - much like the cinema gangsters of the time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bravo!
- De Tim en 09-09-09
De: Jeff Guinn
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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
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 197
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 180
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 180
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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3 out of 5 stars
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Reviews
- De G. D. Hoppe en 11-19-20
De: Michael Cain
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Undisclosed Files of the Police
- Cases from the Archives of the NYPD from 1831 to the Present
- De: Bernard Whalen, Philip Messing, Robert Mladinich
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 110
More than 175 years of true crimes culled from the city's police blotter, told through an insightful text by two NYPD officers and a NYC crime reporter. From atrocities that occurred before the establishment of New York's police force in 1845 through the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 to the present day, this audio is an insider's look at more than 80 real-life crimes that shocked the nation, from arson to gangland murders, robberies, serial killers, bombings, and kidnappings.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good History of Crime in NYC
- De Bob Shinders en 03-10-17
De: Bernard Whalen, y otros
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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 220
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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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4 out of 5 stars
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Almost Perfect.
- De Nick en 10-31-18
De: Guy Gugliotta, y otros
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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 523
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 456
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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4 out of 5 stars
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Hard one to rate....
- De Jeffery D. Giuliani en 09-24-20
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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 291
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 246
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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4 out of 5 stars
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Something I Didn't Know
- De Kevin en 03-29-13
De: Gil Reavill
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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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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5 out of 5 stars
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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
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 200
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 180
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 179
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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3 out of 5 stars
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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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Public Enemies
- America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
- De: Bryan Burrough
- Narrado por: Campbell Scott
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 269
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 192
In Public Enemies, Bryan Burrough strips away a thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI to tell the full story of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and an assortment of criminals who became national icons: John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barkers.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Need the unabridged version
- De Craig Hansen en 07-28-04
De: Bryan Burrough
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Gangster Squad
- Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles
- De: Paul Lieberman
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 88
Gangster Squad chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. In 1946, the LAPD launched the Gangster Squad with eight men who met covertly on street corners and slept with Tommy guns under their beds. But for two cops, all that mattered was nailing the strutting gangster Mickey Cohen. Sgt. Jack O’Mara was a square-jawed church usher, Sgt. Jerry Wooters a cynical maverick....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nothing Like the movie
- De KEITH en 02-21-13
De: Paul Lieberman
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre I'll Do My Own Damn Killin'
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Total3 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución2 out of 5 stars
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- Kevin
- 11-02-12
Interesting, but not overly captivating
What did you like best about I'll Do My Own Damn Killin'? What did you like least?
I did learn that gambling was mainstream long before Las Vegas and that Benny got his start and made most of his money in Dallas/Fort Worth. I didn't like that the book was wrought with supposition and the true facts were few and far-between.
What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)
Certainly did not go out with a bang.
How could the performance have been better?
I think the narrator was poor. I found myself focusing in mispronounced words or poorly-delivered phrases and missing the content. I was not impressed.
Do you think I'll Do My Own Damn Killin' needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
No. Unless there's more from the UNLV interview that can be implemented, the rest was pure guess-work.
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- Beje
- 09-23-15
Some Big "D" Underbelly History
There was some historical information relating to the rough and tumble days of the 40's and 50's. Overall, the story was so-so. I was not an "on the edge of my seat" captive. The story could have been better developed. The narrator was ok. It's not a book I will read again or recommend to someone else.
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- George
- 03-28-13
Facinating read...
What made the experience of listening to I'll Do My Own Damn Killin' the most enjoyable?
Just to know the facts about the start of the dynasty...
What did you like best about this story?
How casually Binion could kill his competitors....and vice versa.
What about David Carpenter’s performance did you like?
All good.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The day Binion & a fellow conspirator planned a murder in downtown Dallas (where I live now) at a bank....and basically get away with it, and many more.
Any additional comments?
Pure facination how illegal gambling was tolerated in early Dallas, and what effect it had on Las Vegas....
What a charactor this man was.
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