Murder, Inc., and the Moral Life: Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia's New York

by Robert Weldon Whalen

Book Overview

In 1940 and 1941 a group of ruthless gangsters from Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood became the focus of media frenzy when they--dubbed "Murder Inc.," by New York World-Telegram reporter Harry Feeney--were tried for murder. It is estimated that collectively they killed hundreds of people during a reign of terror that lasted from 1931 to 1940. As the trial played out to a packed courtroom, shocked spectators gasped at the outrageous revelations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823271552
• ISBN13: 9780823271559
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"