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Jacobs Beach : the Mob, the fights, the fifties /

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The story of New York in the fifties-- of Rat Pack cool and the fading of the mob's glamour, brilliantly told through the prism of Madison Square Garden.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mitchell, Kevin (Sports writer)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pegasus Books : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., 2010.
Edition:1st Pegasus books cloth ed.
Subjects:
Boxing > New York (State) > New York > History.
Gangsters > New York (State) > New York.
Boxe > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
Gangsters > New York (État) > New York.
Boxing.
Gangsters.
New York (State) > New York.
Organized crime > New York (State) > New York > History.
Nonfiction.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The beast within
  • The ring is dead
  • Never far from Broadway
  • Owney Madden and Lucky Jim
  • Setting up Joe
  • Distant drum
  • This Isle of joy
  • Alone on sugar hill
  • The cat in the coonskin hat
  • The rise of the rock
  • Sonny and the mob
  • The slow death of the IBC
  • Long live the king
  • Teddy Atlas knows
  • Sparring with Schulberg
  • Rocky died in one of my jackets
  • Lou Duva, a fighter
  • A couple of artists
  • The reckoning
  • Good night, and good luck.