Supermob
How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America's Hidden Power Brokers
Russo, Gus
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BOOK SUMMARY
The widely praised and meticulously researched book that reveals the story of how, for fifty years, superlawyer Sidney Korshak and the nefarious Chicago Outfit pulled the strings of American business, politics, and society.
Investigative reporter Gus
BOOK SYNOPSIS
The widely praised and meticulously researched book that reveals the story of how, for fifty years, superlawyer Sidney Korshak and the nefarious Chicago Outfit pulled the strings of American business, politics, and society.
Investigative reporter Gus Russo returns with his most explosive book yet, the remarkable story of the “Supermob”—a cadre of men who, over the course of decades, secretly influenced nearly every aspect of American society. Presenting startling, never-before-seen revelations about such famous members as Jules Stein, Joe Glaser, Ronald Reagan, Lew Wasserman, and John Jacob Factor—as well as infamous, low-profile members—Russo pulls the lid off of a half-century of criminal infiltration into American business, politics, and society. At the heart of it all is Sidney “The Fixer” Korshak, who from the 1940s until his death in the 1990s was not only the most powerful lawyer in the world, according to the FBI, but the enigmatic player behind countless twentieth century power mergers, political deals, and organized crime chicaneries.
AUTHOR BIO
Gus Russo is the author of The Outfit: The Role of Chicagos Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America and Live by the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK. He is an investigative reporter who has worked for various major television networks, including PBS, where he was a lead reporter for the award-winning Frontline series.
BOOK REVIEWS
[A] magnum opusRusso does a masterful job of establishing the ethnic and political foundations for Korshaks beginnings. The amount of research in the book is staggering. Its a testament to Russo's doggedness to bring the full story to light.Chicago Sun-Times
The book adds up to an exhaustive Whos Who of the dark power players of 20th century America.New York Post
Holding back from wild-eyed conspiracy theories, Russo documents unsettling connections between yesterdays underworld and a corporate oligarchy that has never been more ascendant than it is today, partly because it has adopted some of the same schemes with a still greater degree of sophistication.San Francisco Chronicle
Seymour Hersh, Nick Tosches and Brian Ross did early spadework, but no one has dug so deeply into The Fixer as Gus Russo does. New York Daily News
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1596912111
ISBN(13-digit): 9781596912113
Dewey Decimal: 340
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 623
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