Author: FRIEDMAN, BILL
Title: 30 Illegal Years to the Strip the Untold Stories of the Gangsters Who Built the Early Las Vegas Strip
Description: No Place: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. Paperback. ISBN: 1508529450. 8.5 X 1.19 X 11 inches; xv, 500 pages; Soft cover has black spine with yellow lettering. Slight rubbing to covers. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. '30 Illegal Years To The Strip is the inside story of Prohibition's most powerful leaders, who later ran elegant, illegal casinos across America, before moving on to build the glamorous Las Vegas Strip gambling resorts. The seven leaders of the three dominating Prohibition gangs imported the world's finest liquors on a massive scale. Although in an illegal and dangerous business, these seven espoused traditional business values and rejected the key tools of organized crime - monopoly, violence, and vendetta. This made them the most unlikely gangsters to rise to underworld leadership. But they earned every criminal's respect, and fate made them the most powerful gangland leaders in American history. In the mid 1900s, these seven leaders stood up to, and restrained, America's worst villains. The seven prevented many gangland wars and killings. Unbelievably, the most murderous and most psychopathic gang leaders not only admired them but supported them in gangland conflicts. These were the first gangs to work closely together in mutual interest. Joining these three dominating liquor-importers was the violent Chicago Capone gang, as they partnered in both illegal and legal businesses during and after Prohibition...' 30 addendum; index. Extra heavy/2.5#.. Near Fine .

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