Supermob : how Sidney Korshak and his criminal associates became America's hidden power brokers / Gus Russo.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Russo, Gus
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck, 2006.
Edition:First U.S. edition.
Subjects:
Korshak, Sidney Roy, > 1907-1996.
Lawyers > Illinois > Chicago > Biography.
Lawyers > California > Biography.
Organized crime > United States.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xvi, 623 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Cast of characters
  • The lawyer from Lawndale
  • From Lawndale to the Seneca to the underworld
  • Birds of a feather
  • Kaddish for California
  • The future is in real estate
  • "Hell, that's what you had to do in those days to get by."
  • Scenes from Hollywood, part one
  • Jimmy, Bobby and Sidney
  • Years in the desert
  • The kingmakers : Paul, Lew and Ronnie in California
  • The new frontier
  • Bistro days
  • "He could never walk away from those people."
  • Scenes from Hollywood, part two
  • "A sunny place for shady people"
  • Coming under attack
  • From Hoffa to Hollywood
  • From Dutch sandwiches to Dutch Reagan
  • Airing dirty laundry and laundering dirty money
  • Pursued by the Fourth Estate
  • The true untouchables
  • Legacies.