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ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
John William Tuohy is a writer who lives in
Washington DC. He holds an MFA in writing from Lindenwood University.
He is the author of No Time to Say Goodbye:
Memoirs of a Life in Foster Care and Short Stories from a Small Town. He is
also the author of numerous non-fiction on the history of organized crime
including the ground break biography of bootlegger Roger Tuohy "When
Capone's Mob Murdered Touhy" and "Guns and Glamour: A History of
Organized Crime in Chicago."
His non-fiction crime short stories have
appeared in The New Criminologist, American Mafia and other publications. John
won the City of Chicago's Celtic Playfest for his work The Hannigan's of
Beverly, and his short story fiction work, Karma Finds Franny Glass, appeared
in AdmitTwo Magazine in October of 2008.
His play, Cyberdate.Com, was chosen for a
public performance at the Actors Chapel in Manhattan in February of 2007 as
part of the groups Reading Series for New York project. In June of 2008, the
play won the Virginia Theater of The First Amendment Award for best new play.
Contact John:
MYWRITERSSITE.BLOGSPOT.COM
JWTUOHY95@GMAIL.COM
All of my books are available on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble
HERE'S MY LATEST BOOKS.....
This is a book of short stories taken from the things I saw and heard in my childhood in the factory town of Ansonia in southwestern Connecticut.
Most of these stories, or as true as I recall them because I witnessed these events many years ago through the eyes of child and are retold to you now with the pen and hindsight of an older man. The only exception is the story Beat Time which is based on the disappearance of Beat poet Lew Welch. Decades before I knew who Welch was, I was told that he had made his from California to New Haven, Connecticut, where was an alcoholic living in a mission. The notion fascinated me and I filed it away but never forgot it.
The collected stories are loosely modeled around Joyce’s novel, Dubliners (I also borrowed from the novels character and place names. Ivy Day, my character in “Local Orphan is Hero” is also the name of chapter in Dubliners, etc.) and like Joyce I wanted to write about my people, the people I knew as a child, the working class in small town America and I wanted to give a complete view of them as well. As a result the stories are about the divorced, Gays, black people, the working poor, the middle class, the lost and the found, the contented and the discontented.
Conversely many of the stories in this book are about starting life over again as a result of suicide (The Hanging Party, Small Town Tragedy, Beat Time) or from a near death experience (Anna Bell Lee and the Charge of the Light Brigade, A Brief Summer) and natural occurring death. (The Best Laid Plans, The Winter Years, Balanced and Serene)
With the exception of Jesus Loves Shaqunda, in each story there is a rebirth from the death. (Shaqunda is reported as having died of pneumonia in The Winter Years)
Sal, the desperate and depressed divorcee in Things Change, changes his life in Lunch Hour when asks the waitress for a date and she accepts. (Which we learn in Closing Time, the last story in the book) In The Arranged Time, Thisby is given the option of change and whether she takes it or, we don’t know. The death of Greta’s husband in A Matter of Time has led her to the diner and into the waiting arms of the outgoing and loveable Gabe.
Although the book is based on three sets of time (breakfast, lunch and dinner) and the diner is opened in the early morning and closed at night, time stands still inside the Diner. The hour on the big clock on the wall never changes time and much like my memories of that place, everything remains the same.
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And here's some other books I wrote........
Photographs I’ve taken
I vacation each summer in my home state of Connecticut and I thought that I had been through every town in Connecticut (There are 250 in total) but what a delight to discover Groton Long Point on the eastern end of the state on the coast where Long Island finally ends and the Atlantic pours onto the coast line. Plum Island (which is part of New York) is just off the beach, perhaps a half mile away. Fishers Island, where my father was posted at the start of the war, is even closer. We had rented a house in Mystic for several summers and as beautiful as that was, it doesn't hold up to the Groton Waterfront.
MISH MOSH..........................................
Mish Mash: noun \ˈmish-ËŒmash, -ËŒmäsh\ A : hodgepodge, jumble “The painting was just a mishmash of colors and abstract shapes as far as we could tell”. Origin Middle English & Yiddish; Middle English mysse masche, perhaps reduplication of mash mash; Yiddish mish-mash, perhaps reduplication of mishn to mix. First Known Use: 15th century
Walking on ice. The Netherlands, 1919.
TODAY'S ALLEGED MOB GUY
IN
THEIR OWN WORDS
“I know nothing, I didn't see anything,
I wasn't there, and if I was there, I was asleep.”
Mob dictum
"This life of ours, this is a
wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it,
hey, that's great. But its very, very unpredictable. There's so many ways you
can screw it up." Paul Castellano
"I never lie to any man because I
don't fear anyone. The only time you lie is when you are afraid." John
Gotti
"Murders came with smiles,
shooting people was no big deal for us Goodfellas." Henry Hill
"I was never able to leave home
without my bodyguard. He has been with
me constantly for two years. I have never been convicted of a crime, never, nor
have I ever directed anyone else to commit a crime. I don't pose as a plaster saint, but I never
killed anyone. And I am known all over
the world as a millionaire gorilla." Al Capone
"I haven't had any peace of mind .
. . it's a tough life . . ." Al Capone
"Once in the racket you are always
in it, it seems," Al Capone
"The parasites will trail you
begging for money and favors and you can never get away from them no matter
where you go. I have a wife and a boy
who is eleven--a lad I idolize--and a beautiful home in Florida. If I could go there and forget it all I would
be the happiest man in the world. I
want peace and I will live and let live.
I'm tired of gang murders and gang shootings . . . it's a tough life to
lead. You fear death every moment and,
worse than death, you fear the rats of the game who would run around and tell
the police if you don't constantly satisfy them with money and favors." Al
Capone
"Newspapers and newspapermen
should be busy suppressing rackets and not supporting them. It does not become me of all persons to say
that, but I believe it." On the death of newsman Jake Lingle Al Capone
"Well, I'm on my way to do eleven
years. I've got to do it, that's all. I'm not sore at anybody. Some people are
lucky. I wasn't. There was too much overhead in my business anyhow, paying off
all the time and replacing trucks and breweries. They ought to make it
legitimate. If it was legitimate, you certainly wouldn't want anything to do
with it," Al Capone
“Vote early and vote often” Al Capone
“You can go a long way with a smile.
You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.” Al Capone
“I've been accused of every death
except the casualty list of the World War. “ Al Capone
(Protesting IRS claiming of unpaid back
tax] They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money.
“I don't even know what street Canada
is on” Al Capone
“You can get more with a nice word and
a gun than you can with a nice word.” Al Capone
“When I sell liquor, it's called
bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called
hospitality.” Al Capone
"You know, lady, I'd rather the
newspapers wouldn't print a line about me. That's the way I feel. No brass band for me. There's a lot of grief attached to the
limelight. Say, if I was just plain Izzy
Polatski, living in Chicago, I'd not stand out in the gutter trying to get a
peek at Capone. I'd attend to my
business and let him attend to his; no use making a laughingstock of the city .
. . All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular. Why, the very guys that make my trade good
are the ones that yell the loudest about me . . . They talk about me not being
on the legitimate. Why, lady, nobody's
on the legit when it comes down to cases; you know that . . . “ Al Capone
“If people did not want beer and
wouldn't drink it, a fellow would be crazy for going around trying to sell
it. I've seen gambling houses, too, in
my travels, you understand, and I never saw anyone point a gun at a man and
make him go in. I never heard of anyone
being forced to go to a place to have some fun." Al Capone
"My rackets are run on strictly
American lines and they're going to stay that way."-Al Capone
"This American system of ours,
call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and
every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the
most of it." Al Capone
"You can get a lot more done with a kind
word and a gun, than with a kind word alone." Al Capone
"When I sell liquor, it's called
bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called
hospitality"- Al Capone
"Sure, and some of our best judges
use my stuff." Al Capone when asked if he was a bootlegger
"They call Al Capone a bootlegger.
Yes, it's bootlegging while it's on the trucks, but when your host at the club,
in the locker room, or on the Gold Coast hands it to you on a silver tray, it's
hospitality." Al Capone
"All I ever did was sell beer and
whiskey to our best people. All I ever did was to supply a demand that was
pretty popular." Al Capone
"Public service is my motto.
Ninety percent of the people of Cook County drink and gamble and my offense has
been to furnish them with those amusements. My booze has been good and my games
on the square." Al Capone
"Today I got a letter from a woman
in England. Even over there I'm known as a gorilla. She offered to pay my
passage to London if I'd kill some neighbors she's been having a quarrel
with." Al Capone
"They've hung everything on me
except the Chicago fire." Al Capone
"Every time a boy falls off a
tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a
toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua,
the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.' "
"I deny absolutely that I am
responsible." Capone on the stock market crash of 1929
"I got nothing against the honest
cop on the beat. You just have them transferred someplace where they can't do
you any harm. But don't ever talk to me about the honor of police captains or
judges. If they couldn't be bought they wouldn't have the job."
Al Capone
"A crook is a crook, and there's
something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends
he is enforcing the law and steals on his authority is a swell snake. The worst
type of these punks is the big politician. You can only get a little of his
time because he spends so much time covering up that no one will know that he
is a thief. A hard-working crook will-and can-get those birds by the dozen, but
right down in his heart he won't depend on them-hates the sight of them."
Al Capone
On loyalty: "Nobody's on the
legit. Your brother or your father gets in a jam. What do you do? Do you sit
back and let him go over the road without trying to help him? You'd be a yellow
dog if you did. Nobody's really on the legit when it comes down to cases."
Al Capone
"I don't want to die. Especially I
don't want to die in the street, punctured by machine gun fire. That's the
reason I've asked for peace. I've begged those fellows to put away their
pistols and talk sense. They've all got families, too. I know I've tried since
the first pistol was drawn in this fight to show them that there's enough
business for all of us without killing each other like animals in the street.
Competition needn't be a matter of murder, anyway. But they don't see it."
Al Capone
I've lost a million and a half on the
horses and dice in the last two years. And the funny part is, I still like 'em,
and if someone handed me another million I'd put it right in the nose of some
horse that looked good to me." Al Capone
Al Capone, when run out of Los Angeles
by the police after a few days visit: "I thought that you folks liked
tourists. I have a lot of money to spend that I made in Chicago. Whoever heard
of anybody being run out of Los Angeles that had money?"
Al Capone, after reading a biography:
"I'll have to hand it to Napoleon as the world's greatest racketeer. But I
could have wised him up on some things. [His trouble was a swelled head; Elba
should have been a warning.] "But he was just like the rest of us. He
didn't know when to quit and had to get back in the racket. He simply put
himself on the spot."
Al Capone, when he thought he had a
deal to spend only 2 1/2 years in jail for tax evasion: "If the United
States government thinks it can clean up Chicago by sending me to jail, well,
it's all right with me. I guess maybe I owe the government this stretch in
jail, anyway."
"You can say what you want about
Al Capone. If people were desperate and needed help, he was there to help them.
As long as you were on the up-and-up. He didn't expect anything in return and
he never expected you to pay him back." By a lifelong Chicago resident of
Italian extraction who was 16 in 1927:
"My people thought of Capone as
Robin Hood." An Italian -American Chicago police sergeant
"He was no hero to me. He hurt the
Italian people." Capone's favorite newspaper photographer, Anthony Berardi
“Al Capone was scrupulous in living up
to his bargain. If I had it to do over again I would never ask a more honest
partner in any business." Morris Becker, dry cleaner, who enlisted Capone
as a partner to fight extortion by the Master Cleaners Association:
"It is not because Capone is
different that he takes the imagination; it is because he is so gorgeously and
typically American." writer Katherine Geroud
"One hand washes the other...both
hands wash the face."-Sam Giancana
"Give me a man who steals a little
and I can make money"-Sam Giancana
You see that fucking fish? If he'd kept his mouth shut, he wouldn'ta got
caught." -Sam Giancana
"The first guy that rats gets a
belly-full of slugs in the head.
Understand?" Joey Glimco
Let him go. He cheated me fair &
square" Tony Accardo referring to a
gambler
"'The United States of America versus
Anthony Spilotro. 'Now what kind of odds are those?" - Anthony "Tough
Tony" Spilotro
“The great nations have always acted
like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes”
Stanley Kubrick
“I decided that if the police couldn't
catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.” Chester Gould quotes Cartoonist who created Dick Tracy
"No bum talks about a
bum."-Carlo Gambino
"Me I never had the chance to say,
Well, I'm going to do something I want to do. "I always did if for my
family, for my children, for my father, for my mother."-Tommy Gambino
"Mafia is a process, not a thing.
Mafia is a form of clan-cooperation to witch it's individual members pledge
lifelong loyalty....Friendship, connections, family ties, trust, loyalty,
obedience-this was the glue that held us together."-Joe Bonanno
"This life of ours, this is a
wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey
that's great. But it's very unpredictable. There's so many ways you can screw
it up."-Paul Castellano
"You are no better or worse than
anyone else in La Cosa Nostra. You are your own man. You and your father are
now equals. Your father, sons, and brothers have no priority. We are all as
one, united in blood. Once you become part of this, there is no greater
bond." -Thomas DiBella
"We're not children here. The law
is-how should I put it? A convenience. Or a convenience for some people, and an
inconvenience for other people. Like, take the law that says you can't go into
someone else's house...I have a house, so, hey, I like that law. The guy
without a house-what's he think of it? Stay out in the rain, schnook. That's
what the law means to him..."-Paul Castellano
"There are certain promises you
make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't
care how many Bibles you put your hand on. Some of the promises, it's true, you
make to young, before you really have an understanding of what they mean. But
once you've made those first promises, other promises are called for. And the
thing is you can't deny the new ones without betraying the old ones. The
promises get bigger, there are more people to be hurt and disappointed if you
don't live up to them. Then, at some point, your called upon to make a promise
to a dying man." -Paul Castellano
"If the president of the United
States, if he's smart, if he needs help, he'd come. I could do a favor for the
president..."- Paul Castellano
"There's no such thing as good
money or bad money. There's just money"-Charlie "Lucky" Luciano
"If you have a lot of what people
want and can't get, then you can supply the demand and shovel in the
dough."- Charlie "Lucky" Luciano
The world is changing and there are new
opportunities for those who are ready to join forces with those who are
stronger and more experienced. "Charlie "Lucky" Luciano
"Ever since we was kids, we always
knew that people can be bought. It was only a question of who did the buyin'
and for how much"-Charlie "Lucky" Luciano
"Behind every great fortune, there
is a crime!"-Charlie "Lucky" Luciano
"My rackets are run on strictly American
lines and they're going to stay that way."-Al Capone
“I never killed a guy who didn't deserve it”
Mickey Cohen
"Everybody has a price."-Jimmy Hoffa
"I like to be myself. Misery loves
company"-Antonio "Tony Ducks" Corallo
''Let's take a son-in-law, somebody,
put them into the (union) office; they got a job. Let's take somebody's
daughter, whatever, she's the secretary. Let's staff it with our people . . .
And when we say go break this guy's balls . . . they're there, seven o'clock in
the morning to break the guy's balls.''-"Tony Ducks" Corallo
"Things change now because there's
too much conflict. People do whatever they feel like. They don't train their
people no more. There's no more respect."-Aniello Dellacroce
You don't understand Cosa Nostra. Cosa
Nostra means the boss is your boss. Boss is the boss is the boss. What I'm
trying to say is a boss is a boss. What dose a boss mean in this f___in' thing.
You might as well make anybody off the street." -Neil Dellacroce
“When I think of the American Indian I
think of their courage, strength, pride, their respect and loyalty toward their
brothers. I honor the reverence they share for tradition and life. These traits
are hungered for in a society that is unfortunately plagued by those whose only
values are self centered and directed at others' expense... -John Gotti
"He who is deaf, blind & silent,
lives a thousand years in peace."-John Gotti
''If they don't put us away for one year or
two, that's all we need. But if I can get a year run without being interrupted
. . . put this thing together where they could never break it, never destroy
it. Even if we die, be a good thing.''-John Gotti
''You will put the garbage in the cans and
make certain that the cans are covered. We got to keep our own backyard
clean.''-John Gotti
"I never lie to any man because I don't
fear anyone. The only time you lie is when you are afraid."-John Gotti
I know where my mistakes are, where I made my
mistakes. They're too late to remedy, you know what I mean?"-John Gotti
"I called your f------ house five times yesterday, now, if you're
going to disregard my m----- f------ phone calls, I'll blow you and that f
------ house up . . . This is not a f------ game. My time is valuable. If I
ever hear anybody else calls you and you respond within five days, I'll f------
kill you.''-John Gotti
"Three-to-one odds I beat
this." -John Gotti
“In Bensonhurst, that was it, becomin'
a made guy. It's all we kid's ever talked about...I never saw the other side of
it until I in, and then it's too late and you just do your work...-Sammy
"The Bull" Gravano
"Never open your mouth, unless
you're in the dentist chair"-Sammy "The Bull" Gravano
Murders came with smiles, shooting
people was no big deal for us Goodfellas." Henry Hill
"You heard of the double cross? In
this business you gotta watch for the triple cross. You gotta always be alert.
There's so much jealousy. Guys always trying to set you up, put you in traps.
Trying to get ya killed. There was so much viciousness in this
thing."-Nick Carmamandi
"Other kids are brought up nice
and sent to Harvard and Yale. Me? I was brought up like a mushroom."-Frank
Costello
Don't lie, Tell one lie, then you gotta tell
another lie to compound on the first."-Meyer Lansky
"Don't worry, don't worry. Look at
the Astors and the Vanderbilts, all those big society people. They were the
worst thieves-and now look at them. It's just a matter of time."-Meyer
Lansky
"Goodfellas don't sue GoodFellas,
Goodfellas kill GoodFellas."-Salvatore Profaci
"Always overpay your taxes. That way
you'll get a refund."-Meyer Lansky
"Run from a knife and rush a
gun."-Jimmy Hoffa
"According to my best
recollection, I don't remember."-Vincent "Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo
"We only kill each
other"-Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
"I'm no saint, but I swear to you
that I'm no bum either."-Frank Cotroni
"Shoot me. But I'm not going to
answer any questions."-Venero Benny Eggs" Mangano
"Don't let your tongue be your
worst enemy."-John "Sonny" Franzese
''If you're clipping people, I always
say, make sure you clip the people around him first. Get them together, 'cause
everybody's got a friend. He could be the dirtiest (expletive) in the world,
but someone that likes this guy, that's the guy that sneaks you.''-Illario
Zannino
Honest people have no ethics-Sam
DeCavalcante
“One hand washes the other...both hands
wash the face."-Sam Giancana
"Give me a man who steals a little
and I can make money"-Sam Giancana
"He's been crazy all his life.
He's not just, you know, a little funny. He's really nuts." Anonymous
mobster of Giacomo "Fat Jack" DiNorscio
"We're not crazed killers at least
I didn't think we were at the time." Philip Leonetti, a Philadelphia
underboss turned mob-informant
"Can't anybody shoot that guy so
he won't bounce back up?" Dutch Schultz after failing to kill his rival
Jack "Legs" Diamond for the umpteenth time
"The bullet hasn't been made that
can kill me." Legs Diamond just before he was shot dead
HERE'S A WORD FROM
EMERSON.....................
As the Sandwich Islander believes
that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself so we
gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
300
quotes from Emerson
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DON'T YOU WANT TO SEE THE ENTIRE WORLD?
I DO
Zermatt, Switzerland
I believe that one defines
oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your
friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. Henry Rollins
HERE'S PLEASANT POEM FOR YOU TO ENJOY................
Topography
By
Sharon
Olds
After we
flew across the country we
got in
bed, laid our bodies
delicately
together, like maps laid
face to
face, East to West, my
San
Francisco against your New York, your
Fire
Island against my Sonoma, my
New
Orleans deep in your Texas, your Idaho
bright on
my Great Lakes, my Kansas
burning
against your Kansas your Kansas
burning
against my Kansas, your Eastern
Standard
Time pressing into my
Pacific
Time, my Mountain Time
beating
against your Central Time, your
sun
rising swiftly from the right my
sun
rising swiftly from the left your
moon
rising slowly from the left my
moon
rising slowly from the right until
all four
bodies of the sky
burn
above us, sealing us together,
all our
cities twin cities,
all our
states united, one
nation,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Collections
Olds, Sharon (1980). Satan Says. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
1983 The Dead and the Living, Knopf ISBN 978-0394715636
1987 The Gold Cell, Knopf ISBN 978-0394747705
1987 The Matter of This World, Slow Dancer Press ISBN 978-0950747989
1991 The Sign of Saturn, Secker & Warburg ISBN 978-0436200298
1992 The Father, Secker & Warburg ISBN 978-0679740025
1996 The Wellspring, Knopf ISBN 978-0679765608
1999 Blood, Tin, Straw, Knopf ISBN 978-0375707353
2002 The Unswept Room, Tandem Library ISBN 978-0375709982
2004 Strike Sparks: Selected Poems 1980-2002, Knopf ISBN 978-0375710766
2008 One Secret Thing, Random House ISBN 978-0375711770
2012 Stag's Leap, Knopf ISBN 978-0375712258
What is love………….
Love is but the discovery of
ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Alexander
Sculpture this and Sculpture that
Waterfront Park, Old Town Alexandria 
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
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THE ART OF PULP
AND NOW, A BEATLES BREAK
DON'T YOU JUST LOVE POP ART?
Roy Lichtenstein
I LOVE BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS FROM FILM
Photo by Danny Lyon.
MUSIC FOR THE SOUL
WHY THE WORLD NEEDS EDITORS..........
I'm a big big Fan of Bukowski
THE ART AND BEAUTY OF BALLET
THE ART OF WAR............
The Observation and Appreciation of Architecture
HERE'S SOME NICE ART FOR YOU TO LOOK AT....ENJOY!
Winter, Vilhelms Purvītis
AND HERE'S SOME ANIMALS FOR YOU...................
GUNS AND GLAMOUR
Capone. Torrio. Ricca. Giancana and
Accardo. The giant legends of organized crime that led the largest, wealthiest,
most powerful, and near completely documented organized crime syndicate in the
world. At the height of its power, the Chicago mobs influence extended from
Lake Shore Drive to the beaches of Havana, the neon lights of Vegas and the
heroin drenched back alleys of Hanoi. The years 1900 through 1959 are largely
considered the Golden Age for the Chicago mob. The end came with the accession
of Sam “Momo” Giancana to the criminal throne that Big Jim Colosimo had
founded. Flashy, arrogant and dangerous, Giancana’s rise to the leadership of
the Chicago Mob was paralleled by the federal government’s assault on organized
crime. By 1980, the Chicago mob has lost control of the organized labor on a
national basis and given up Las Vegas Las Vegas. Virtually every significant
Mafia Boss in the country was in jail or under indictment and Sam Giancana was
shot dead by his own men. The so-called Golden Age of Chicago Mob had ended.
Between 1900 and 1959, fifty-nine years, only seven Bosses led the Chicago Mob.
Between 1963 and 2000, thirty-seven years, there were more than nine Bosses in
rapid succession. All except one of them…the indomitable Tony Accardo…died in
jail or under federal and state indictment. While the Chicago Mob still wields
considerable criminal, financial, and political influence, it is a mere shadow
of what it once was. With increased pressure from far reaching RICO laws, the
constant surveillance of a well-informed and effective federal organized crime
task force and increased competition from equally ruthless and ambitious new
ethnic mobs, there is little chance it will ever reemerge as the awesome power
it once was.
READERS REVIEWS FROM AMAZON BOOKS
Amazon review: I heard a lot about Chicago mafia and
I think it very interesting theme and I read few books but those books were so
hard to read (!): small font, a lot of slangs, hard spelling words! But John
Tuohy's book not like that!!! It's easy to read(and I'm not saying it written
poor or anything), what I mean is for the person who doesn't know much about
the mafia world this book is really helps to understand all the details, I
would say to see the whole picture!!! This book is really interesting and
helpful!
It also has a lot of photographs which
makes the book even better!
I wish there would be more writers like
John Tuohy who makes the books more interesting and cognitive!
Amazon review: Mr. Tuohy, has out done himself with
this prized piece of literary work! Since I'm a Chicagoan, born and raised for
40 years, some of them on the very same streets where some of the Outfit's
associates and higher-ups lived, and after the first few pages I'm hooked. His
writing style to me is very easy to digest, and his photos are spectacular,
either due to it's rarity or the person being photo, alot of these Outfit
bosses/hitman didn't like to be photographed, and believe me, they made sure
that you knew it. To take the Chicago Outfit and write about the ups and downs
the Organization went through during this 100 year time frame is an amazing
feat. You get some real good stories, written without an agenda, just to get
the information out to the public. A brilliant topic which was handled with
care and dignity by Mr.Tuohy, as I'm finding out is the case in ALL OF HIS
BOOKS, be they organized crime or based on something else. Get if a try, you'll
end up buying more than the one book, betcha you can't read just one!!!
An interesting book about the history
of the Chicago mob. It highlights the legends of the Chicago mob in the 1900s.
Any fan of the Chicago mob should add this to their collection.
BLOGLAPEDIA’S BLOGS
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THE ARTS
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Art
for the Pop of it
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Photography
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Music
for the Blog of it
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Sculpture
this and Sculpture that
http://sculpturethisandsculpturethat.blogspot.com/
The
art of War (Propaganda art through the ages)
http://theartofwarcleverhuh.blogspot.com/
Album
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Pulp
Fiction Trash (The art of Pulp Fiction covers)
http://pulpfictiontrash.blogspot.com/
Admit
it, you want to Read this Book (The art of Pulp Fiction covers)
http://goaheadadmitityouwanttoread.blogspot.com/
FILM
The
Godfather Trilogy BlogSpot
http://thegodfathertrilogyblogspot.blogspot.com/
On
the Waterfront: The Making of a great American Film
http://onthewaterfrontthefilm.blogspot.com/
FOOD
Absolutely
blogalicious
http://absolutelyblogalicious.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Book of Irish Recipes (Book support site)
http://theweeblogofirishrecipes.blogspot.com/
Good
chowda (New England foods)
http://goodchowda.blogspot.com/
Old
New England Recipes (Book support site)
http://oldnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com/
And I
Love Clams (New England foods)
http://andiloveclams.blogspot.com/
In
Praise of the Rhode Island Wiener (New England foods)
http://inpraiseoftherhodeislandwiener.blogspot.com/
Wicked
Cool New England Recipes (New England foods)
http://whickedcoolnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
Old
New England Recipes (New England foods)
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FOSTER CARE
Foster Care new and Updates
Aging out of the system
Murder, Death and Abuse in the
Foster Care system
Angel and Saints in the Foster
Care System
The Foster Children’s Blogs
Foster Care Legislation
The Foster Children’s Bill of
Right
Foster Kids own Story
The Adventures of Foster Kid.
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Me
vs. Diabetes (Diabetes education site)
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HISTORY
The
Quotable Helen Keller
http://thequotablehelenkeller.blogspot.com/
Teddy
Roosevelt's Letters to his children (Book support site)
http://teddyrooseveltsletterstohischildren.blogspot.com/
The
Quotable Machiavelli (Book support site)
http://thequotablemachiavelli.blogspot.com/
HUMOR
Whatever
you do, don't laugh
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The
Quotable Grouch Marx
http://thequotablegrouchmarx.blogspot.com/
IRISH-AMERICANA
A Big
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The
Wee Blog of Irish Jokes (Book support blog)
http://theweeblogofirishjokes.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Blog of Irish Recipes
http://theweeblogofirishrecipes.blogspot.com/
The
Irish American Gangster
http://irishamericangangsters.blogspot.com
The
Irish in their Own Words
http://theirishintheirownwords.blogspot.com/
When
Washington Was Irish
http://whenwashingtonwasirish.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Book of Irish Recipes (Book support site)
http://theweeblogofirishrecipes.blogspot.com/
LITERATURE
Following
Fitzgerald
http://followingfitzgerald.blogspot.com/
Shakespeare
http://shakespeareinamericanenglish.blogspot.com/
The
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http://theblogablerobertfrost.blogspot.com/
Charles
Dickens
http://charlesdickensfan.blogspot.com/
The
Beat Poets of the Forever Generation
http://thebeatspoetsoftheforevergenera.blogspot.com/
Holden
Caulfield Blog Spot
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The
Quotable Oscar Wilde
http://thequotableoscarwilde.blogspot.com/
NEW ENGLAND BLOGS
The
Quotable Thoreau
http://thequotablethenrydavidthoreau.blogspot.com/
Old
New England Recipes
http://oldnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
Wicked
Cool New England Recipes
http://whickedcoolnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
Emerson
http://emersonsaidit.blogspot.com/
The
New England Mafia
http://thenewenglandmafia.blogspot.com/
And I
Love Clams
http://andiloveclams.blogspot.com/
In
Praise of the Rhode Island Wiener
http://inpraiseoftherhodeislandwiener.blogspot.com/
Watch
Hill
http://watchhillwesterly.blogspot.com/
York
Beach
http://yorkbeachfortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
The
Connecticut History Blog
http://connecticuthistory.blogspot.com/
The
Connecticut Irish
http://theconnecticutirish.blogspot.com/
Good
chowda
http://goodchowda.blogspot.com/
NOSTALGIA
God,
How I hated the 70s
http://godhowihatedthe70s.blogspot.com/
Child
of the Sixties Forever
http://childofthesixtiesforeverandever.blogspot.com/
The
Kennedy’s in the 60’s
http://thekennedysinthe60s.blogspot.com/
Music
of the Sixties Forever
http://musicofthesixtiesforever.blogspot.com/
Elvis
and Nixon at the White House (Book support site)
http://elvisandnixonatthewhitehouse.blogspot.com/
Beatles
Fan Forever
http://beatlesfanforever.blogspot.com/
Year
One, 1955
http://yearone1955.blogspot.com/
Robert
Kennedy in His Own Words
The
1980s were fun
http://the1980swereokayactually.blogspot.com/
The
1990s. The last decade.
http://1990sthelastdecade.blogspot.com/
ORGANIZED CRIME
The
Russian Mafia
http://russianmafiagangster.blogspot.com/
The
American Jewish Gangster
http://theamericanjewishgangster.blogspot.com/
The
Mob in Hollywood
http://themobinhollywood.blogspot.com/
We
Only Kill Each Other
http://weonlykilleachother.blogspot.com/
Early
Gangsters of New York City
http://earlygangstersofnewyorkcity.blogspot.com/
Al
Capone: Biography of a self-made Man
http://alcaponethebiographyofaselfmademan.blogspot.com/
The
Life and World of Al Capone
http://thelifeandworldofalcapone.blogspot.com/
The
Salerno Report
http://salernoreportmafiaandurderjohnkennedy.blogspot.com/
Guns
and Glamour
http://gunsandglamourthechicagomobahistory.blogspot.com/
The
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
http://thesaintvalentinesdaymassacre.blogspot.com/
Mob
Testimony
http://mobtestimony.blogspot.com/
Recipes
we would Die For
http://recipeswewoulddiefor.blogspot.com/
The
Prohibition in Pictures
http://theprohibitioninpictures.blogspot.com/
The
Mob in Pictures
http://themobinpictures.blogspot.com/
The
Mob in Vegas
http://themobinvegasinpictures.blogspot.com/
The
Irish American Gangster
http://irishamericangangsters.blogspot.com
Roger
Touhy Gangster
http://rogertouhygangsters.blogspot.com/
Chicago’s
Mob Bosses
http://chicagosmobbossesfromaccardoto.blogspot.com/
Chicago
Gang Land: It Happened Here
http://chicagoganglandithappenedhere.blogspot.com/
Whacked:
One Hundred years of Murder in Gangland
http://whackedonehundredyearsmurderand.blogspot.com/
The
Mob Across America
http://themobacrossamerica.blogspot.com/
Mob
Cops, Lawyers and Front Men
http://mobcopslawyersandinformantsand.blogspot.com/
Shooting
the Mob: Dutch Schultz
http://shootingthemobdutchschultz.blogspot.com/
Bugsy&
His Flamingo: The Testimony of Virginia Hill
http://bugsyandvirginiahill.blogspot.com/
After
Valachi. Hearings before the US Senate on Organized Crime
http://aftervalachi.blogspot.com/
Mob
Buster: Report of Special Agent Virgil Peterson to the Kefauver Committee (Book
support site)
http://virgilpetersonmobbuster.blogspot.com/
The
US Government’s Timeline of Organized Crime (Book support site)
http://timelineoforganizedcrime.blogspot.com/
The
Kefauver Organized Crime Hearings (Book support site)
http://thekefauverorganizedcrimehearings.blogspot.com/
Joe
Valachi's testimony on the Mafia (Book support site)
http://joevalachistestimonyonthemafia.blogspot.com/
Mobsters
in the News
http://mobstersinthenews.blogspot.com/
Shooting
the Mob: Dead Mobsters (Book support site)
http://deadmobsters.blogspot.com/
The
Stolen Years Full Text (Roger Touhy)
http://thestolenyearsfulltext.blogspot.com/
Mobsters
in Black and White
http://mobstersinblackandwhite.blogspot.com/
Mafia
Gangsters, Wiseguys and Goodfellas
http://mafiagangsterswiseguysandgoodfellas.blogspot.com/
Whacked:
One Hundred Years of Murder and Mayhem in the Chicago Mob (Book support site)
http://whackedonehundredyearsmurderand.blogspot.com/
Gangland
Gaslight: The Killing of Rosy Rosenthal (Book support site)
http://ganglandgaslightrosyrosenthal.blogspot.com/
The
Best of the Mob Files Series (Book support site)
http://thebestofthemobfilesseries.blogspot.com/
PHILOSOPHY
It’s
All Greek Mythology to me
http://itsallgreekmythologytome.blogspot.com/
PSYCHOLOGY
Psychologically
Relevant
http://psychologicallyrelevant.blogspot.com/
SNOBBERY
The
Rarifieid Tribe
http://therarifiedtribe.blogspot.com/
Perfect
Behavior
http://perfectbehavior.blogspot.com/
TRAVEL
The
Upscale Traveler
http://theupscaletraveler.blogspot.com/
TRIVIA
The
Mish Mosh Blog
http://theupscaletraveler.blogspot.com/
WASHINGTON DC
DC
Behind the Monuments
http://dcbehindthemonuments.blogspot.com/
Washington
Oddities
http://washingtonoddities.blogspot.com/
When
Washington Was Irish
http://whenwashingtonwasirish.blogspot.com/
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AMERICAN HISTORY
The
Day Nixon Met Elvis
Paperback 46 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Day-Nixon-Met-elvis/
Theodore
Roosevelt: Letters to his Children. 1903-1918
Paperback 194 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Theodore-Roosevelt-Letters-Children-1903-1918/dp/
THE ANCIENT GREEKS AND
CIVILIZATIONS
The
Works of Horace
Paperback 174 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Works-Horace-Richard-Willoughby/
The
Quotable Greeks
Paperback 234 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Greeks-Richard-W-Willoughby
The
Quotable Epictetus
Paperback 142 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Epictetus-Golden-Sayings
Quo
Vadis: A narrative of the time of Nero
Paperback 420 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quo-Vadis-Narrative-Time-Nero
CHILDRENS BOOKS
The
Porchless Pumpkin: A Halloween Story for Children
A Halloween play for young
children. By consent of the author, this play may be performed, at no charge,
by educational institutions, neighborhood organizations and other
not-for-profit-organizations.
A fun story with a moral
“I believe that Denny O'Day is an
American treasure and this little book proves it. Jack is a pumpkin who happens
to be very small, by pumpkins standards and as a result he goes unbought in the
pumpkin patch on Halloween eve, but at the last moment he is given his chance
to prove that just because you're small doesn't mean you can't be brave. Here
is the point that I found so wonderful, the book stresses that while size
doesn't matter when it comes to courage...ITS OKAY TO BE SCARED....as well. I
think children need to hear that, that's its okay to be unsure because life is
a ongoing lesson isn't it?”
Paperback: 42 pages
http://www.amazon.com/OLANTERN-PORCHLESS-PUMPKIN-Halloween-Children
It's
Not All Right to be a Foster Kid....no matter what they tell you: Tweet the
books contents
Paperback 94 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Right-Foster-Kid-no-matter-what
From the Author
I spent my childhood, from age
seven through seventeen, in foster care.
Over the course of those ten years, many decent, well-meaning, and
concerned people told me, "It's okay to be foster kid."
In saying that, those very good
people meant to encourage me, and I appreciated their kindness then, and all
these many decades later, I still appreciate their good intentions. But as I
was tossed around the foster care system, it began to dawn on me that they were
wrong. It was not all right to be a
foster kid.
During my time in the system, I
was bounced every eighteen months from three foster homes to an orphanage to a
boy's school and to a group home before I left on my own accord at age
seventeen.
In the course of my stay in
foster care, I was severely beaten in two homes by my "care givers"
and separated from my four siblings who were also in care, sometimes only
blocks away from where I was living.
I left the system rather than to
wait to age out, although the effects of leaving the system without any family,
means, or safety net of any kind, were the same as if I had aged out. I lived
in poverty for the first part of my life, dropped out of high school, and had
continuous problems with the law.
Today, almost nothing about foster care has
changed. Exactly what happened to me is
happening to some other child, somewhere in America, right now. The system, corrupt, bloated, and
inefficient, goes on, unchanging and secretive.
Something has gone wrong in a
system that was originally a compassionate social policy built to improve lives
but is now a definitive cause in ruining lives.
Due to gross negligence, mismanagement, apathy, and greed, mostly what
the foster care system builds are dangerous consequences. Truly, foster care
has become our epic national disgrace and a nightmare for those of us who have
lived through it.
Yet there is a suspicion among
some Americans that foster care costs too much, undermines the work ethic, and
is at odds with a satisfying life.
Others see foster care as a part of the welfare system, as legal plunder
of the public treasuries.
None of that is true; in fact, all that sort
of thinking does is to blame the victims.
There is not a single child in the system who wants to be there or asked
to be there. Foster kids are in foster
care because they had nowhere else to go.
It's that simple. And believe me,
if those kids could get out of the system and be reunited with their parents
and lead normal, healthy lives, they would. And if foster care is a sort of
legal plunder of the public treasuries, it's not the kids in the system who are
doing the plundering.
We need to end this needless suffering. We need to end it because it is morally and
ethically wrong and because the generations to come will not judge us on the
might of our armed forces or our technological advancements or on our fabulous
wealth.
Rather, they will judge us, I am certain, on
our compassion for those who are friendless, on our decency to those who have
nothing and on our efforts, successful or not, to make our nation and our world
a better place. And if we cannot
accomplish those things in the short time allotted to us, then let them say of
us "at least they tried."
You can change the tragedy of
foster care and here's how to do it. We
have created this book so that almost all of it can be tweeted out by you to
the world. You have the power to improve
the lives of those in our society who are least able to defend themselves. All you need is the will to do it.
If the American people, as good, decent and
generous as they are, knew what was going on in foster care, in their name and
with their money, they would stop it.
But, generally speaking, although the public has a vague notion that
foster care is a mess, they don't have the complete picture. They are not aware
of the human, economic and social cost that the mismanagement of the foster
care system puts on our nation.
By tweeting the facts laid out in
this work, you can help to change all of that.
You can make a difference. You
can change things for the better.
We can always change the future
for a foster kid; to make it better ...you have the power to do that. Speak up
(or tweet out) because it's your country.
Don't depend on the "The other guy" to speak up for these kids,
because you are the other guy.
We cannot build a future for
foster children, but we can build foster children for the future and the time
to start that change is today.
No
time to say Goodbye: Memoirs of a life in foster
Paperbook 440 Books
http://www.amazon.com/No-Time-Say-Goodbye-Memoir
BOOKS ABOUT
FILM
On
the Waterfront: The Making of a Great American Film
Paperback: 416 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Waterfront-Making-Great-American-Film/
BOOKS
ABOUT GHOSTS AND THE SUPERNATUAL
Scotish
Ghost Stories
Paperback 186 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Scottish-Ghost-Stories-Elliott-ODonell
HUMOR
BOOKS
The
Book of funny odd and interesting things people say
Paperback: 278 pages
http://www.amazon.com/book-funny-interesting-things-people
The
Wee Book of Irish Jokes
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Series-Irish-Jokes-ebook
Perfect
Behavior: A guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in all Social Crises
http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Behavior-Ladies-Gentlemen-Social
BOOKS
ABOUT THE 1960s
You
Don’t Need a Weatherman. Underground 1969
Paperback 122 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Weatherman-Notes-Weatherman-Underground-1969
Baby
Boomers Guide to the Beatles Songs of the Sixties
Paperback
http://www.amazon.com/Boomers-Guide-Beatles-Songs-Sixties/
Baby
Boomers Guide to Songs of the 1960s
http://www.amazon.com/Baby-Boomers-Guide-Songs-1960s
IRISH- AMERICANA
The
Connecticut Irish
Paper back 140 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Connecticut-Irish-Catherine-F-Connolly
The Wee Book of Irish Jokes
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Series-Irish-Jokes-ebook/
The
Wee Book of Irish Recipes 
http://www.amazon.com/The-Wee-Book-Irish-Recipes/
The Wee Book of the American-Irish Gangsters
http://www.amazon.com/The-Wee-Book-Irish-American-Gangsters/
The Wee book of Irish Blessings...
http://www.amazon.com/Series-Blessing-Proverbs-Toasts-ebook/
The
Wee Book of the American Irish in Their Own Words
http://www.amazon.com/Book-American-Irish-Their-Words/
Everything
you need to know about St. Patrick
Paperback 26 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Need-About-Saint-Patrick
A
Reading Book in Ancient Irish History
Paperback 147pages
http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Book-Ancient-Irish-History
The
Book of Things Irish
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Things-Irish-William-Tuohy/
Poets
and Dreamer; Stories translated from the Irish
Paperback 158 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Poets-Dreamers-Stories-Translated-Irish/
The
History of the Great Irish Famine: Abridged and Illustrated
Paperback 356 pages
http://www.amazon.com/History-Great-Irish-Famine-Illustrated/
BOOKS ABOUT NEW ENGLAND
The
New England Mafia
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-England-Mafia-ebook/
Wicked
Good New England Recipes
http://www.amazon.com/Wicked-Good-New-England-Recipes/
The
Connecticut Irish
Paper back 140 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Connecticut-Irish-Catherine-F-Connolly
The
Twenty-Fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers
Paperback 64 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Twenty-Fifth-Regiment-Connecticut-Volunteers-Rebellion
The
Life of James Mars
Paperback 54 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Life-James-Mars-Slave-Connecticut
Stories
of Colonial Connecticut
Paperback 116 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Stories-Colonial-Connnecticut-Caroline-Clifford
What
they Say in Old New England
Paperback 194 pages
http://www.amazon.com/What-they-say-New-England/
BOOK ABOUT ORGANIZED CRIME
Chicago Organized Crime
Chicago-Mob-Bosses
http://www.amazon.com/Chicagos-Mob-Bosses-Accardo-ebook
The
Mob Files: It Happened Here: Places of Note in Chicago gangland 1900-2000
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mob-Files-1900-2000-ebook
An
Illustrated Chronological History of the Chicago Mob. Time Line 1837-2000
http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Chronological-History-Chicago-1837-2000/
Mob
Buster: Report of Special Agent Virgil Peterson to the Kefauver Committee
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Buster-Peterson-Committee-ebook/
The
Mob Files. Guns and Glamour: The Chicago Mob. A History. 1900-2000
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Files-Guns-Glamour-ebook/
Shooting
the Mob: Organized crime in photos. Crime Boss Tony Accardo
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Mob-Organized-photos-Accardo/
Shooting
the Mob: Organized Crime in Photos: The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Mob-Organized-Valentines-Massacre
The
Life and World of Al Capone in Photos
http://www.amazon.com/Life-World-Al-Capone
AL
CAPONE: The Biography of a Self-Made Man.: Revised from the 0riginal 1930
edition.Over 200 new photographs
Paperback: 340 pages
http://www.amazon.com/CAPONE-Biography-Self-Made-Over-photographs
Whacked.
One Hundred Years Murder and Mayhem in the Chicago Outfit
Paperback: 172 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Whacked-Hundred-Murder-Mayhem-Chicago/
Las Vegas Organized Crime
The
Mob in Vegas
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Files-Vegas-ebook
Bugsy
& His Flamingo: The Testimony of Virginia Hill
http://www.amazon.com/Bugsy-His-Flamingo-Testimony-Virginia/
Testimony
by Mobsters Lewis McWillie, Joseph Campisi and Irwin Weiner (The Mob Files
Series)
http://www.amazon.com/The-Kennedy-Assassination-Ruby-Testimony-ebook
Rattling
the Cup on Chicago Crime.
Paperback 264 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Rattling-Cup-Chicago-Crime-Abridged
The
Life and Times of Terrible Tommy O’Connor.
Paperback 94 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Times-Terrible-Tommy-OConnor
The
Mob, Sam Giancana and the overthrow of the Black Policy Racket in Chicago
Paperback 200 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Giancana-ovethrow-Policy-Rackets-Chicago
When
Capone’s Mob Murdered Roger Touhy. In Photos
Paperback 234 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Capones-Murdered-Roger-Touhy-photos
Organized
Crime in Hollywood
The Mob in Hollywood
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Files-Hollywood-ebook/
The
Bioff Scandal
Paperback 54 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Bioff-Scandal-Shakedown-Hollywood-Studios
Organized
Crime in New York
Joe Pistone’s war on the mafia
http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Petrosinos-War-Mafia-Files/
Mob
Testimony: Joe Pistone, Michael Scars DiLeonardo, Angelo Lonardo and others
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Testimony-DiLeonardo-testimony-Undercover/
The
New York Mafia: The Origins of the New York Mob
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-York-Mafia-Origins
The
New York Mob: The Bosses
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-York-Mob-Bosses/
Organized
Crime 25 Years after Valachi. Hearings before the US Senate
http://www.amazon.com/Organized-Crime-Valachi-Hearings-ebook
Shooting
the mob: Dutch Schultz
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Mob-Organized-Photographs-Schultz
Gangland
Gaslight: The Killing of Rosy Rosenthal. (Illustrated)
http://www.amazon.com/Gangland-Gaslight-Killing-Rosenthal-Illustrated/
Early
Street Gangs and Gangsters of New York City
Paperback 382 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Early-Street-Gangs-Gangsters-York
THE RUSSIAN MOBS
The
Russian Mafia in America
http://www.amazon.com/The-Russian-Mafia-America-ebook/
The
Threat of Russian Organzied Crime
Paperback 192 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Threat-Russian-Organized-Crime-photographs-ebook
Organized Crime/General
Best
of Mob Stories
http://www.amazon.com/Files-Series-Illustrated-Articles-Organized-Crime/
Best
of Mob Stories Part 2
http://www.amazon.com/Series-Illustrated-Articles-Organized-ebook/
Illustrated-Book-Prohibition-Gangsters
http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Book-Prohibition-Gangsters-ebook
Mob
Recipes to Die For. Meals and Mobsters in Photos
http://www.amazon.com/Recipes-For-Meals-Mobsters-Photos
More
Mob Recipes to Die For. Meals and Mobs
http://www.amazon.com/More-Recipes-Meals-Mobsters-Photos
The
New England Mafia
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-England-Mafia-ebook
Shooting
the mob. Organized crime in photos. Dead Mobsters, Gangsters and Hoods.
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-mob-Organized-photos-Mobsters-Gangsters/
The
Salerno Report: The Mafia and the Murder of President John F. Kennedy
http://www.amazon.com/The-Salerno-Report-President-ebook/
The Mob Files: Mob Wars. "We only kill
each other"
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mob-Files-Wars-other/
The
Mob across America
http://www.amazon.com/The-Files-Across-America-ebook/
The
US Government’s Time Line of Organzied Crime 1920-1987
http://www.amazon.com/GOVERNMENTS-ORGANIZED-1920-1987-Illustrated-ebook/
Early
Street Gangs and Gangsters of New York City: 1800-1919. Illustrated
http://www.amazon.com/Gangsters-1800-1919-Illustrated-Street-ebook/
The
Mob Files: Mob Cops, Lawyers and Informants and Fronts
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mob-Files-Informants-ebook/
Gangster
Quotes: Mobsters in their own words. Illustrated
Paperback: 128 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Gangsters-Quotes-Mobsters-words-Illustrated/
The
Book of American-Jewish Gangsters: A Pictorial History.
Paperback: 436 pages
http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-American-Jewish-Gangsters-Pictorial/
The
Mob and the Kennedy Assassination
Paperback 414 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Kennedy-Assassination-Ruby-Testimony-Mobsters
BOOKS ABOUT THE OLD WEST
The
Last Outlaw: The story of Cole Younger, by Himself
Paperback 152 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Outlaw-Story-Younger-Himself
BOOKS ON PHOTOGRAPHY
Chicago:
A photographic essay.
Paperback: 200 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Chicago-Photographic-Essay-William-Thomas
STAGE PLAYS
Boomers
on a train: A ten minute play
Paperback 22 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Boomers-train-ten-minute-Play-ebook
Four
Short Plays
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Short-Plays-William-Tuohy
Four
More Short Plays
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Short-Plays-William-Tuohy/
High
and Goodbye: Everybody gets the Timothy Leary they deserve. A full length play
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/High-Goodbye-Everybody-Timothy-deserve
Cyberdate.
An Everyday Love Story about Everyday People
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Cyberdate-Everyday-Story-People-ebook/
The
Dutchman's Soliloquy: A one Act Play based on the factual last words of
Gangster Dutch Schultz.
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Dutchmans-Soliloquy-factual-Gangster-Schultz/
Fishbowling
on The Last Words of Dutch Schultz: Or William S. Burroughs intersects with
Dutch Schultz
Print Length: 57 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Fishbowling-Last-Words-Dutch-Schultz-ebook/
American
Shakespeare: August Wilson in his own words. A One Act Play
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/American-Shakespeare-August-Wilson-ebook
She
Stoops to Conquer
http://www.amazon.com/She-Stoops-Conquer-Oliver-Goldsmith/
The
Seven Deadly Sins of Gilligan’s Island: A ten minute play
Print Length: 14 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Deadly-Gilligans-Island-minute-ebook/
BOOKS ABOUT VIRGINIA
OUT
OF CONTROL: An Informal History of the Fairfax County Police
http://www.amazon.com/Control-Informal-History-Fairfax-Police/
McLean
Virginia. A short informal history
http://www.amazon.com/McLean-Virginia-Short-Informal-History/
The
Quotable Emerson: Life lessons from the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Over 300
quotes
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Emerson-lessons-quotes
The
Quotable John F. Kennedy
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-John-F-Kennedy/
The
Quotable Oscar Wilde
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Oscar-Wilde-lessons/
The
Quotable Machiavelli
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Machiavelli-Richard-Thayer/
The
Quotable Confucius: Life Lesson from the Chinese Master
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Confucius-Lesson-Chinese/
The
Quotable Henry David Thoreau
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Henry-Thoreau-Quotables-ebook
The
Quotable Robert F. Kennedy
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Robert-F-Kennedy-Illustrated/
The
Quotable Writer: Writers on the Writers Life
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Writer-Quotables-ebook
The
words of Walt Whitman: An American Poet
Paperback: 162 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Words-Walt-Whitman-American-Poet
Gangster
Quotes: Mobsters in their own words. Illustrated
Paperback: 128 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Gangsters-Quotes-Mobsters-words-Illustrated/
The
Quotable Popes
Paperback 66 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Popes-Maria-Conasenti
The
Quotable Kahlil Gibran with Artwork from Kahlil Gibran
Paperback 52 pages
Kahlil Gibran, an artist, poet,
and writer was born on January 6, 1883 n the north of modern-day Lebanon and in
what was then part of Ottoman Empire. He had no formal schooling in Lebanon. In
1895, the family immigrated to the United States when Kahlil was a young man
and settled in South Boston. Gibran enrolled in an art school and was soon a
member of the avant-garde community and became especially close to Boston
artist, photographer, and publisher Fred Holland Day who encouraged and
supported Gibran’s creative projects. An accomplished artist in drawing and
watercolor, Kahlil attended art school in Paris from 1908 to 1910, pursuing a
symbolist and romantic style. He held his first art exhibition of his drawings
in 1904 in Boston, at Day's studio. It was at this exhibition, that Gibran met
Mary Elizabeth Haskell, who ten years his senior. The two formed an important
friendship and love affair that lasted the rest of Gibran’s short life. Haskell
influenced every aspect of Gibran’s personal life and career. She became his
editor when he began to write and ushered his first book into publication in
1918, The Madman, a slim volume of aphorisms and parables written in biblical
cadence somewhere between poetry and prose. Gibran died in New York City on
April 10, 1931, at the age of 48 from cirrhosis of the liver and tuberculosis.
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Kahlil-Gibran-artwork/
The
Quotable Dorothy Parker
Paperback 86 pages
The
Quotable Machiavelli
Paperback 36 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Machiavelli-Richard-L-Thayer
The
Quotable Greeks
Paperback 230 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Greeks-Richard-W-Willoughby
The
Quotabe Oscar Wilde
Paperback 24 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Oscar-Wilde-lessons-words/
The
Quotable Helen Keller
Paperback 66 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Helen-Keller-Richard-Willoughby
The
Art of War: Sun Tzu
Paperback 60 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Confucius-Lesson-Chinese-Quotables-ebook
The
Quotable Shakespeare
Paperback 54 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Shakespeare-Richard-W-Willoughby
The
Quotable Gorucho Marx
Paperback 46 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Groucho-Marx-Devon-Alexander
