Little Man Meyer Lansky by Lacey Robert (155 results)

Hardcover. Condition: GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Condition: Good. Illus. With Photos (illustrator). Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A tan to the pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (1991), 547pp, illus. w/ photos, dj taped to cover.

Black Cloth/White Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. Black & White Photographs (illustrator). First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good hardcover without dustwrapper. First edition. The book is Signed by the author. The book spine ends and cover board corners have light wear. The book cover boards have minor soiling.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO60072570: 1992. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos plié, Intérieur acceptable. 547 pages. Photo en noir et blanc en frontispice. Illustré de nombreuses photos en noir et blanc hors texte. Légères mouillures. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

paperback; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition beige boards/black spine/gold spine lettering contained in a very good condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Robert Lacey; Author Dedication; Preliminary Two Page USA Map Listing Meyer Lansky Owned Casinos and Other Businesses; Author's Note and Acknowledgments; Source Notes; Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with four sections of black-and-white photographic plates. "They called him the Godfather of the Godfathers, the Chairman of the Board of the National Crime Syndicate, the Mafia's banker. They credited him with a personal fortune of $300 million, with having said "We're bigger than U.S. Steel." He was portrayed on the screen in The Godfather, Part II as Hyman Roth, dividing up Cuba with his fellow gangsters. If, in the mythology of organized crime, Al Capone symbolized the crude menace of the machine gun and the baseball bat, Meyer Lansky stood for the brains, the sophistication, the hot money, the sheer cleverness of it all. And yet, when it came down to it, no law enforcement official in sixty years could find much to pin on the supposed boss of bosses, and within a few years of Lansky's death, his crippled son was living on welfare. Little Man is a book about organized crime unlike any other yet written. In this brilliant biography and social history, Robert Lacey separates the strands of fact and legend in Meyer Lansky's career, revealing a truth about the gangster life in America that is far more fascinating and dramatic than fiction. A Jewish immigrant from Russia, Lansky broke into a life of crime running crap games and acting as a shtarke, a strong-arm man for Jewish and Italian gamblers on the Lower East Side of New York. Teaming up with his pals Lucky Luciano and Bugsy Siegel, he graduated to bootlegging, Clever Meyer became the master of the "share-out," keeping all the figures in his head and dividing up the spoils from smuggled liquor shipments. In the thirties and forties he moved on to illegal gambling, running the classiest casinos around. He invested in modern Las Vegas - though he never really liked the place - and became the gambling consultant to President Batista during Havana's glory days. In World War II he even acted as a go-between for U.S. Naval Intelligence, paving the way for gangster help to the Allied invasion of Sicily. Then in 1951 Estes Kefauver's Senate Crime Committee named Lansky as one of the leaders of organized crime in America, fueling the legend that would eventually destroy the gangster. Cuba's revolutionary leaders expelled him in 1960 as a corrupting influence. His attempts to go into legitimate business and later to settle in Israel were frustrated by the shadows of his past. His every step was dogged by the FBI and the IRS, as his family disintegrated and his health declined. His death was front-page news, but at the end, his power and wealth were all gone. Based on dramatic new documentation and on firsthand interviews with Lansky's close friends and business associates, with law enforcement experts, and with members of the Lansky family, Little Man is a powerful and irresistible narrative of a man and a way of life never before truly examined. Robert Lacey has written, in this his finest book, a groundbreaking exploration of organized crime in America and of our enduring fascination with criminals." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

black & white (illustrator). very good in very good dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 547pp. Illus with photos. The Godfather of Godfathers - The Chairman of the Board - the Mafia's Banker - he used brains (not a machine gun). A biography and a social history. There is some underlining in ink, but it's not excessive. (Loc 269/1).

1991 1ST FINE /FINE.

hard cover. Condition: good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Good, hard cover book with no dust jacket, bumped edges, remainder mark on bottom edge, 547 pages, sm4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Little Man. Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life. By Robert Lacey. Hard covers with dust jacket and both in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: new. new.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover. Stated first edition with a full number line starting with 1.