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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know is a nonfiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company (hardcover version) on September 10, 2019. [1] The audiobook version of the book follows Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast-style structure, using Gladwell's narration ...
Billy Bathgate is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow that won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990, [1] the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, [2] the 1990 William Dean Howells Medal, [3] and was the runner-up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize [4] and the 1989 National Book Award. [5] The book was dedicated to Jason ...
I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa is a 2004 work of narrative nonfiction written by former homicide prosecutor, investigator, and defense attorney Charles Brandt that chronicles the life of Frank Sheeran, an alleged mafia hitman who confesses the crimes he committed working for the Bufalino crime family.
(The Mafia) truly formed in the 1930s but became unraveled in the 1990s for a range of reasons, including the decision by Rudy Giuliani (then U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York ...
Following the success of Talese's previous book The Kingdom and the Power, his book on the Mafia was primed for success, and quickly became a bestseller.Talese's use of literary techniques that were traditionally the domain of fiction, known as "new journalism", still was regarded with caution and many suspected the technique of fabrication; a charge that Talese has always strongly denied.
The Green Felt Jungle is a 1963 book by Ovid Demaris and Ed Reid. [1] It exposes Las Vegas's dark underbelly, discussing the role of mobsters, prostitution, and political influence peddling in control of the city. It was a New York Times Best Seller for 23 weeks. [2]
"The Talk" is done talking. CBS' peppy daytime show ended its 15-season run Friday after an hourlong series finale.. The audience gave the show's hosts – Sheryl Underwood, Jerry O'Connell ...
Easy Street: The True Story of a Mob Family (1981) is the first memoir of Susan Berman, daughter of Las Vegas mobster David Berman.In it, Berman chronicles her mother Gladys's and her own obliviousness to what went on around them.