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Based on interviews with Lansky's close friends and criminal associates, with law enforcement experts, and with members of Lansky's own family, and using previously unpublished documents written by Lansky himself, this is both the biography of a mob boss and a social history... Read Full Overview

Meyer Lansky was a thinking man's mobster, the "accountant for the mob." Able to remember masses of complex numbers - without committing them to paper - he built a reputation for himself as untouchable by the law. He is introduced as the son of Jewish Russian immigrants, toughing... Read Full Overview