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Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life

Based on interviews with Lansky's close friends & criminal associates, with law enforcement experts, & with members of Lansky's own family, & using previously unpublished documents written by Lansky himself, this is both the biography of a mob operator & a social history of American crime.

Genre
crime
Themes
mafia
Setting
20th centuryUSA
Subject
biography
Audience
adult
Length
long · 559 pages

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