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Last summer I was wandering around lower Manhattan and stumbled into Dorothy Day’s original office and living space. The staff was wonderful and showed me around the building which still houses the Catholic Worker newspaper and living space but a soup kitchen has been added.(photos below)

FROM WIKIPEDIA

Dorothy Day, Obl.S.B., (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert.

Dorothy Day became famous after her conversion. She initially lived a bohemian lifestyle before becoming Catholic. This conversion is described in her autobiography, The Long Loneliness.

Day's social activism is also described in her autobiography. In 1917 she was imprisoned as a member of suffragist Alice Paul's nonviolent Silent Sentinels.

In the 1930s, Day worked closely with fellow activist Peter Maurin to establish the Catholic Worker Movement, a pacifist movement that combines direct aid for the poor and homeless with nonviolent direct action on their behalf.

She practiced civil disobedience, which led to additional arrests in 1955, 1957, and in 1973 at the age of seventy-five.

Day was also an active journalist, and described her social activism in her writings. As part of the Catholic Worker Movement, Day co-founded the Catholic Worker newspaper in 1933, and served as its editor from 1933 until her death in 1980.

In this newspaper, Day advocated the Catholic economic theory of distributism, which she considered a third way between capitalism and socialism.

Her activism and writing gave her a national reputation as a political radical, perhaps the most famous radical in American Catholic Church history.

Dorothy Day's life is an inspiration for the Catholic Church. Pope Benedict XVI used her conversion story as an example of how to "journey towards faith... in a secularized environment."

Pope Francis included her in a short list of exemplary Americans, together with Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thomas Merton, in his address before the United States Congress.

The Church has opened the cause for Day's possible canonization, which was accepted by the Holy See for investigation. Due to this, the Church refers to her with the title of Servant of God.

What Love is ....................

Your fortune is misfortune if it is not Love. Silent Lotus

Love means nothing in tennis, but it's everything in life. Author Unknown

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. Author Unknown

Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. Turkish Proverb

Love is when you can be your true self with someone, and you only want to be your true self because of them. Terri Guillemets

It is really one moment of looking love dead in the eye that takes us everywhere in a flash. Swami Chetanananda

We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness and call it love true love. Robert Fulghum, True Love

In a deep moment of love, thinking stops. The moment is so intriguing, the moment is so tremendously powerful, the moment is so intensely alive, that thinking stops. You are simply in awe, a great wonder surrounds you. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones. Rabindranath Tagore

Sunshine surrounds the earth as love surrounds our souls. Terri Guillemets

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. Author Unknown

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. Author Unknown

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. Author Unknown

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. Kay Knudsen

For without love we will lose the will to live. Our mental and physical vitality is impaired, our resistance is lowered, and we succumb to illnesses that often prove fatal. We may escape actual death, but what remains is a meager and barren existence, emotionally so impoverished that we can only be called half alive. Smiley Blanton, Love or Perish

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. Henry Louis Mencken

Love knows no answer for it does not question. Silent Lotus

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. Author Unknown

Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. Author Unknown

True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall but you are there to catch them. Author Unknown

You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. Author Unknown

Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. Author Unknown

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. Author Unknown

Love is not blind it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Julins Gordon

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. Author Unknown

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. Oliver Wendell Holmes

It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. Author Unknown

I'm far from perfect, but I'll be perfect for that imperfect person that's perfect for me. Amanda Bynes

Passion spins around love and I am dizzy around you always. Terri Guillemets

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two. Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Come live in my heart and pay no rent. Samuel Lover

I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. Thomas Moore

Everyone wants to be the sun that lifts up your life, but I'd rather be your moon, so I may shine on you during your darkest hour when the sun isn't around and the ghost white moonbeams will allow you to find comfort in my arms. Craig D. Slovak

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. Miguel de Unamuno

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. Michel de Montaigne

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. Javan

Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun .Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon

Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler. Francesca M. Cancian

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. Author Unknown

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. Claudia Ghandi

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. Hans Nouwens

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain, 1922

In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head. Terri Guillemets

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. G.K. Chesterton

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. George Bernard Shaw

The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. Edward Thomas

Once you truly believe you're worthy of love, you will never settle for anyone's second best treatment. Charles J. Orlando

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again. Albert Einstein

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. John Lennon

To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything. T. Tolis

In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. Theodor Reik

The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that. Woody Allen

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. A. A. Milne

. You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone. Lord of The Rings

If I know what love is, it is because of you. Herman Hesse

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. André Gide, Autumn Leaves

We love the things we love for what they are. Robert Frost

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget. Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. G.K. Chesterton

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Mother Teresa

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. Rupert Brooke

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. H. L. Mencken

Love is always bestowed as a gift freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. Leo Buscaglia

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. Michel de Montaigne

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent. Samuel Lover

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. Leo Buscaglia

The best proof of love is trust. Joyce Brothers

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you. Loretta Young

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy. Dwight L. Moody

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. Zora Neale Hurston

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship never. Charles Caleb Colton

We loved with a love that was more than love. Edgar Allan Poe

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. Javan

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. Rainer Maria Rilke

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. George Eliot

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. Stendhal

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. Joseph Joubert

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Tom Robbins

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The art of love is largely the art of persistence. Albert Ellis

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. Andre Breton

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint Exupery

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. Lao Tzu

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. Barbara de Angelis

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. George Edward Moore

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. H. L. Mencken

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love. Khalil Gibran

Love is a friendship set to music. Joseph Campbell

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Khalil Gibran

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever. Leo Buscaglia

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. Carl Sagan

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

All mankind love a lover. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Vincent Van Gogh

There is no remedy for love but to love more. Henry David Thoreau

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'Ayn Rand

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. Edward G. Bulwer Lytton

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. Benjamin Franklin

Love is the beauty of the soul. Saint Augustine

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. Henry Drummond

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. Paulo Coelho

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. Plato

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. Miguel de Unamuno

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. Jesus Christ

If you want to be loved, be lovable. Ovid

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity. Leo Buscaglia

The love we give away is the only love we keep. Elbert Hubbard

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars. Gilbert Parker

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. Erich Fromm

When love is not madness, it is not love. Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. Andre Breton

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. Rabindranath Tagore

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. Erich Fromm

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out. Elizabeth Bowen

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love is the greatest refreshment in life. Pablo Picasso

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. Francis of Assisi

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. Barbara Pym

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. Antoine de Saint Exupery

If you wished to be loved, love. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love means to commit yourself without guarantee. Anne Campbell

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. Helen Rowland

He is not a lover who does not love forever. Euripides

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Euripides

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. George Jean Nathan

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. Thomas Aquinas

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. Sarah Bernhardt

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. Emmet Fox

Love in its essence is spiritual fire. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. Euripides

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. Josh Billings

Love is what you've been through with somebody. James Thurber

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. W. Somerset Maugham

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder. Charles Morgan

There are never enough I Love You's. Lenny Bruce

Love is suffering. One side always loves more. Catherine Deneuve

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Jesus Christ

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. John Gay

Fortune and love favor the brave. Ovid

Friendship is Love without his wings! Lord Byron

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. Louise L. Hay

Love is the poetry of the senses. Honore de Balzac

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do. David Wilkerson

John William Tuohy

Do what you can with what you have where you are

DON’T WORRY-BE HAPPY

Like this dog

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:

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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-ˌmash, -ˌmäsh\ 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

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.

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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

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It's Not All Right to be a Foster Kid....no matter what they tell you: Tweet the books contents

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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

http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Dorothy-Parker-Proxy-Algan/

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