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Shadow of My Father
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John A. Gotti grew up as the son of one of the most notorious crime bosses in America, and the street shaped much of his father's life long before it shaped his own. In this memoir he describes his father's devotion to that world and how he himself was drawn into it. Eventually, with his father's blessing, he walked away from organized crime to build a lawful life with his family.
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He also looks at the law enforcement officers who, in his telling, bent or broke the rules to advance their own careers. Four courtroom battles and a parole review ended without a guilty finding for him, and the story moves between those legal fights and the choices that led him out of the life.
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