MAFIA PRINCESS - GROWING UP IN SAM GIANCANA'S FAMILY

Language: English

Published by WILLIAM MORROW AND COMPANY, INC., NEW YORK, NY, 1084

0688026206 / 9780688026202

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304 PAGES.THIS IS AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY THE FIRST BORN CHILD OF NOTORIOUS CHICAGO GANGSTER AND MAFIA BOSS, SAM "MOMO: GIANCANO. THE AUTHOR RELATES HER VERY PROTECTED CATHOLIC CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOLING THAT WAS OVER SEEN BY THE IRON RULE OF HER FATHER SAM "MOMO" GIANCANA. SHE REBELLED AND UNHAPPILY STRUGGLED THROUGH A NUMBER OF PAROCHIAL AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS. SERIOUS MENTAL ISSUES THAT ACCOMPANIED HER REBELLIOUS NATURE RESULTED IN THE NECESSITY FOR PSYCHIATRIC CARE AND EVEN ELECTRO-SHOCK THERAPY. AN UNHAPPY ABUSIVE MARRIAGE LED TO A DIVORCE THAT WAS FORBIDDEN BY HER FATHER AS UNACCEPTABLE IN THE SICILIAN MAFIA MOB CULTURE. THAT EVENT FINALLY PRECIPITATED HER FATHER COMPLETELY DISOWNING HER AND ISOLATION FROM HER SIBLINGS. THE BOOK RELATES A NUMBER OF EVENTS IN HER FATHER'S NOTORIOUS CAREER INCLUDING HIS BUSINESS RELATIONS AND CHICAGO CONNECTIONS WITH GAMBLING CASINOS IN LAS VEGAS, ON CRUISE SHIPS AND INTERNATIONALLY. HIS BUSINESS RELATIONS IN UNIONS AND IN THE OPERATIONS OF MOVIE THEATRES AND EVEN HOLLYWOOD PRODUCTIONS. THOSE ACTIVITIES LED TO HIS RELATIONS WIITH MANY HOLLYWOOD AND LAS VEGAS STARS AND A ROMANTIC RELANTIONSHIP WITH PHYLLIS McGUIRE OF THE SINGING McGUIRE SISTERS, HIS RELATIONS WITH THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND HIS BROTHER, ROBERT KENNEDY IS PRESENTED. THERE WAS A SORDID RELATIONSHIP WITH THE "CIA" IN THEIR PLANNING OR SUPPOSED EFFORTS TO ASSASSINATE CUBAN PRESIDENT FfIDEL CASTRO, HER FATHER'S MURDER BY A SUPPOSED CLOSE MAFIA FRIEND THAT OCCURRED JUST PRIOR TO HIS SCHEDULED TESTIMONY BEFORE A UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE IS DETAILED , SAM GIANCANA'S MURDER AND FUNERAL AND SECRETIVE DISPOSAL OF HIS COLLECTIONS OF GOLD COINS, MONEY, ARTWORK AND OTHER COLLECTIONS IS UNKNOWN TO THE AUTHOR. THE MULTIPLE MILLIIONS GARNERED BY SAM GIANCANA DURING HIS LIFETIME JUST DISAPPEARED. THERE ARE NINE B/W PHOTOGRAPHS OF ANTINETT'E'S MOTHER, HER SHORT CAREER AS A MODEL, THE FAMILY AND LATER IN LIFE. Size: 6 1/4" X 9 1/2".…

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Title
MAFIA PRINCESS - GROWING UP IN SAM GIANCANA'S FAMILY
Author
ANTOINETTE GIANCANA AND THOMAS C. RENNER,
Publisher
WILLIAM MORROW AND COMPANY, INC., NEW YORK, NY
Publication year
1084
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
FINE CONDITION
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0688026206
ISBN 13
9780688026202
Edition
FIRST EDITION - FOURTH PRINTING.
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Aah! Rare Chicago specializes in collections of Chicago authors such as David Mamet, Ben Hecht, Vincent Starrett,James T. Farrell, Eugene Field, George Ade, Studs Terkel and many others along with collections of Chicago Publishers such as Stone and Kimball and Way and Willams. We have hundreds of books about Chicago dating back to the early 1800s including Crime, Prostitution, Banking, Mayors, Architecture, Newspapers, Sports, the 1968 Democratic convention riots including posters and the subsequent conspiracy trial, Prefire imprints and Business. Much of the material is very difficult to find material such as in early in magazines and other ephemera.…

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