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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 I was home for the holidays one night when someone brought up the subject of Frankie Filia, my mother's cousin who had come home to visit. He was a jazz singer who had left town a lifetime ago for Las Vegas, but he had recently decided to retire and come home.
#2 I knew my grandfather was a mobster, but I didn't know the details. I didn't want to learn more, and I...
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
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259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town America. Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a city "in its brawny postwar prime," is where "Little Joe" Regino and Russ Shorto build a local gambling empire on the earnings of factory workers for whom placing a bet-on a horse or pool game, pinball or "tip seal"-is their best shot at the American dream. Decades later, Russell Shorto grew up knowing that his grandfather...
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