Download or read book The Sweet Life of Jimmy Riley written by James Reardon and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1980 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Riley was a crooked cop and because of that the city was a safer and more joyful place to live. He was the unofficial collection officer for the New York City Vice Squad. Millions and millions of dollars passed through his hands to be distributed to police officials and politicians.
Download or read book The Sweet Life of Jimmy Riley written by James Reardon and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1980 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Riley was a crooked cop and because of that the city was a safer and more joyful place to live. He was the unofficial collection officer for the New York City Vice Squad. Millions and millions of dollars passed through his hands to be distributed to police officials and politicians.
Download or read book The City Game written by Matthew Goodman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful story of a college basketball team who carried an era’s brightest hopes—racial harmony, social mobility, and the triumph of the underdog—but whose success was soon followed by a shocking downfall “A masterpiece of American storytelling.”—Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Devil in the Grove NAMED ONE OF THE BEST SPORTS BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW The unlikeliest of champions, the 1949–50 City College Beavers were extraordinary by every measure. New York’s City College was a tuition-free, merit-based college in Harlem known far more for its intellectual achievements and political radicalism than its athletic prowess. Only two years after Jackie Robinson broke the Major League Baseball color barrier—and at a time when the National Basketball Association was still segregated—every single member of the Beavers was either Jewish or African American. But during that remarkable season, under the guidance of the legendary former player Nat Holman, this unheralded group of city kids would stun the basketball world by becoming the only team in history to win the NIT and NCAA tournaments in the same year. This team, though, proved to be extraordinary in another way: During the following season, all of the team’s starting five were arrested by New York City detectives, charged with conspiring with gamblers to shave points. Almost overnight these beloved heroes turned into fallen idols. The story centers on two teammates and close friends, Eddie Roman and Floyd Layne, one white, one black, each caught up in the scandal, each searching for a path to personal redemption. Though banned from the NBA, Layne continued to devote himself to basketball, teaching the game to young people in his Bronx neighborhood and, ultimately, with Roman’s help, finding another kind of triumph—one that no one could have anticipated. Drawing on interviews with the surviving members of that championship team, Matthew Goodman has created an indelible portrait of an era of smoke-filled arenas and Borscht Belt hotels, when college basketball was far more popular than the professional game. It was a time when gangsters controlled illegal sports betting, the police were on their payroll, and everyone, it seemed, was getting rich—except for the young men who actually played the games. Tautly paced and rich with period detail, The City Game tells a story both dramatic and poignant: of political corruption, duplicity in big-time college sports, and the deeper meaning of athletic success.
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Download or read book NYPD written by James Lardner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the world's largest municipal police force from its founding in 1845 to the present day, revealing an organization fraught with hidden conflicts between politicians, bureaucrats, and the cops on the beat.
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Download or read book Organized Crime written by Nikos Passas and published by Dartmouth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work on organized crime encompasses methodological problems in the study of organized crime itself, crime as a way of life in America, a family case study, arson and urban economy, corruption in agencies of social control, Canadian reflections on the Finsbury Park experience and drugs.
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