American Gangster

And Other Tales of New York

Mark Jacobson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2007
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press (Verlag)
978-0-8021-4336-5 (ISBN)

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In the 1970s, Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing in over a million dollars a day. So many heroin addicts were buying from him on 116th Street that he claimed the Transit Authority changed the bus routes to avoid them. He lived a glamorous life, hobnobbing with athletes, musicians, and politicians, but Lucas was a ruthless gangster. He was notorious for using the coffins of dead GIs to smuggle heroin into the United States and, before being sentenced to seventy years in prison, he played a major role in the near death of New York City. In American Gangster, Mark Jacobson's captivating account of the life of Frank Lucas (the basis for the forthcoming major motion picture) joins other tales of New York City from the past thirty years. The collection features a number of Jacobson's most famous essays, as well as previous unpublished work and recent articles on 9/11 conspiracy theorists, America's #1 escort, and Harlem's own Charles Rangel, the new chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. American Gangster is a vibrant, many-layered portrait of the most fascinating city in the world, by one of the most acclaimed journalists of our time.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.11.2007
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 209 mm
Gewicht	326 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
ISBN-10	0-8021-4336-9 / 0802143369
ISBN-13	978-0-8021-4336-5 / 9780802143365
Zustand	Neuware