Download or read book Bummy Davis vs Murder Inc written by Ron Ross and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tough kid with a heart of gold, Al "Bummy" Davis grew up in the streets of Brownsville, New York on the fringes of the Jewish mob during the 20's and 30's-thanks to his older brother, a feared racketeer. But as much as he resisted the underworld of Murder, Inc. by becoming a championship fighter and a Brownsville hero, he never did escape the Jewish Mob's shadow. Though he repeatedly stood up to mob kingpins, Bummy suffered a spectacular fall from grace as a result of a smear campaign by the press. Ron Ross' Bummy Davis vs. Murder, Inc. is not just about one Jewish boxer, his meteoric rise to fame, and victimization by the press. Bummy's life was intertwined with the Great Depression, the survival of the Brooklyn Jewish immigrant population during Prohibition, and the inevitable offshoot of Prohibition-Murder Inc., one of American history's most notorious band of killers. Ron Ross portrays an important historical time period, an enigmatic Jewish subculture, and the surprising juxtaposition of a generation of Jews and their talent for boxing. Bummy Davis vs. Murder, Inc. features a cast of colorful villains whom you'll love to hate, a boxing legend who was the unwitting pawn of fate, and the human drama of the boxing world. With his vivid, street-smart Damon Runyonesque writing style, Ron Ross redeems a tragic hero who fought the pull of one of the most brutal groups of killers to grace the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Good Lawyer written by Douglas O. Linder and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every lawyer wants to be a good lawyer. They want to do right by their clients, contribute to the professional community, become good colleagues, interact effectively with people of all persuasions, and choose the right cases. All of these skills and behaviors are important, but they spring from hard-to-identify foundational qualities necessary for good lawyering. After focusing for three years on getting high grades and sharpening analytical skills, far too many lawyers leave law school without a real sense of what it takes to be a good lawyer. In The Good Lawyer, Douglas O. Linder and Nancy Levit combine evidence from the latest social science research with numerous engaging accounts of top-notch attorneys at work to explain just what makes a good lawyer. They outline and analyze several crucial qualities: courage, empathy, integrity, diligence, realism, a strong sense of justice, clarity of purpose, and an ability to transcend emotionalism. Many qualities require apportionment in the right measure, and achieving the right balance is difficult. Lawyers need to know when to empathize and also when to detach; courage without an appreciation of consequences becomes recklessness; working too hard leads to exhaustion and mistakes. And what do you do in tricky situations, where the urge to deceive is high? How can you maintain focus through a mind-taxing (or mind-numbing) project? Every lawyer faces these problems at some point, but if properly recognized and approached, they can be overcome. It's not easy being good, but this engaging guide will serve as a handbook for any lawyer trying not only to figure out how to become a better--and, almost always, more fulfilled--lawyer.
Download or read book Bummy Davis Vs Murder Inc written by Ron Ross and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centered around the life of legendary Jewish boxer Al "Bummy" Davis, this is the dramatic story of the intersection of the Jewish mob world and the boxing world, and the immigrant community that bred both.
Download or read book The Tomato Can written by Ron Ross and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book If Christ Came to Chicago written by William Thomas Stead and published by Chicago : Laird & Lee. This book was released on 1894 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Max Baer and Barney Ross written by Jeffrey Sussman and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows the lives and careers of two Jewish boxers, Max Baer and Barney Ross. Fighting in the 1920s and 1930s when anti-Semitism was rampant, American Jews found symbols of strength and courage in these two world champions. This book provides a vivid picture of Baer and Ross as they fought opponents in the ring and prejudice outside it.
Download or read book When Boxing Was a Jewish Sport written by Allen Bodner and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1997-10-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author reports on the many young Jewish fighters who began boxing for the money. In the 1920s and 1930s, "Jews were represented in almost every aspect of the sport, from manufacturing equipment to management."--Jacket.
Download or read book Nine Ten and Out written by Ron Ross and published by . This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emile Griffith, one of boxings all-time greats is the first high profile prizefighter and probably the most celebrated athlete ever to step forward and state I am gay! The product of a culture and a time, victimized by his own celebrity, it took this Hall of Fame world champion a veritable lifetime - 67 years - to bridge his two divergent worlds.
Download or read book One Hundred Years of Singapore written by Walter Makepeace and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cheesecake to Die For written by Ron Ross and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ron Ross's long awaited sequel to The Tomato Can is finally here! The uproarious Cheesecake to Die For is a wise-guy romp with a host of colorful characters who readers will remember long after the story is over. Everybody knows that mob boss Donato "the Dwarf" Langella is the keeper of the peace-and everything else-in Coney Island. Yet the usual routine of poker and cannoli at the Mermaid Social Athletic Club is abruptly interrupted with the arrival of Louie the Louse, who feels entitled to some of the mob's perks without doing any of the work. When Louie unceremoniously helps himself to some goods that belong to the Dwarf, things must be made right... and fast. The Dwarf wastes no time enlisting the help of his most trusted allies, including his right-hand man, the loyal and logical "Big Nose" Sallie, "Fats" Suozzo, whose dedication to the Dwarf is rivaled only by his love for a plate full of pretty much anything, and other fellow mob stalwarts who are currently dealing with problems of their own. Joey "the Clown" DiCollona, for instance, manages to find trouble without even looking and is currently contemplating the proper protocol for inviting his wife to his forthcoming wedding to another woman.... While the men sitting around the poker table of the Mermaid S.A.C. have their own plans for dealing with the line-crossing Louie, the women of the group have their own ideas. Goldie, the ample blonde working as the cheesecake counter girl at Junior's, and "Widow" Minnie Brown, the blind cab driver and flower seller, prove that they may just have what it takes to show a loveable group of wise guys that sometimes it takes a wise dame to get the job done right.
Download or read book The Long Island Historical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Al Capone written by Fred D. Pasley and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.
Download or read book A Place on the Corner Second Edition written by Elijah Anderson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paperback edition of A Place on the Corner marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Elijah Anderson's sociological classic, a study of street corner life at a local barroom/liquor store located in the ghetto on Chicago's South Side. Anderson returned night after night, month after month, to gain a deeper understanding of the people he met, vividly depicting how they created—and recreated—their local stratification system. In addition, Anderson introduces key sociological concepts, including "the extended primary group" and "being down." The new preface and appendix in this edition expand on Anderson's original work, telling the intriguing story of how he went about his field work among the men who frequented Jelly's corner.
Download or read book On the jury written by Richard Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CPH Exam Quick Reference Review written by Holmes Larry and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In seven chapters, youll get a complete review of each of the core competencies as recommended by the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) as well as tips, test-taking skills, recommended resources, and 200 practice-test multiple choice questions. A concise review of epidemiology, biostatistics, behavioral and social sciences, environmental sciences, and health policy and management sciences is offered along with vignettes that illustrate the application of concepts. Numerous figures, tables, and references further enhance learning.
Download or read book The Last Pirate of New York written by Rich Cohen and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was he New York City’s last pirate . . . or its first gangster? This is the true story of the bloodthirsty underworld legend who conquered Manhattan, dock by dock—for fans of Gangs of New York and Boardwalk Empire. “History at its best . . . I highly recommend this remarkable book.”—Douglas Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God Handsome and charismatic, Albert Hicks had long been known in the dive bars and gin joints of the Five Points, the most dangerous neighborhood in maritime Manhattan. For years, he operated out of the public eye, rambling from crime to crime, working on the water in ships, sleeping in the nickel-a-night flops, drinking in barrooms where rat-baiting and bear-baiting were great entertainments. His criminal career reached its peak in 1860, when he was hired, under an alias, as a hand on an oyster sloop. His plan was to rob the ship and flee, disappearing into the teeming streets of lower Manhattan, as he’d done numerous times before, eventually finding his way back to his nearsighted Irish immigrant wife (who, like him, had been disowned by her family) and their infant son. But the plan went awry—the ship was found listing and unmanned in the foggy straits of Coney Island—and the voyage that was to enrich him instead led to his last desperate flight. Long fascinated by gangster legends, Rich Cohen tells the story of this notorious underworld figure, from his humble origins to the wild, globe-crossing, bacchanalian crime spree that forged his ruthlessness and his reputation, to his ultimate incarnation as a demon who terrorized lower Manhattan, at a time when pirates anchored off 14th Street. Advance praise for The Last Pirate of New York “A remarkable work of scholarship about old New York, combined with a skillfully told, edge-of-your-seat adventure story—I could not put it down.”—Ian Frazier, author of Travels in Siberia “With its wise and erudite storytelling, Rich Cohen’s The Last Pirate of New York takes the reader on an exciting nonfiction narrative journey that transforms a grisly nineteenth-century murder into a shrewd portent of modern life. Totally unique, totally compelling, I enjoyed every page.”—Howard Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Gangland and American Lightning
Download or read book Drag Queens on Trial written by Sky Gilbert and published by Playwrights Canada Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comedy about three drag queens who must defend themselves against society.
