Michael Cieply: An Old Book And Some Thoughts About De Niro’s Dual-Role ‘Wise Guys’

Everyone’s gone to the festivals. But here on the home front, one thing still leads to another. Last Saturday, I picked up a slightly tattered copy of an old crime biography, Frank Costello: …

. But here on the home front, one thing still leads to another.Frank Costello: Prime Minister of the UnderworldPublished in 1974, the year after mob boss Costello died at the age of 82, the book was written by his long-time lawyer George Wolf with co-writer Joseph DiMona.much ax-grinding.

And a reasonably clear re-telling of an oft-told saga about what they used to call “The Syndicate,” from tawdry roots in New York’s Italian ghettos, through the Italo-Jewish alliance of bootlegging gangs, to political machinations, over-throw of the old Sicilian crime lords, Murder Inc., Bugsy Siegel, Las Vegas, the Kefauver hearings and beyond.

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