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Whitey : the life of America's most notorious mob boss / Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill.

Lehr, Dick, (author.). O'Neill, Gerard, (author.).

Summary:

Whitey Bulger was the crime boss and killer who brought the FBI to its knees. Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill examine and reveal the factors and forces that created the monster. This is a deeply rendered portrait of evil that spans nearly a century, taking Whitey from the streets of his boyhood Southie in the 1940s to his cell in Alcatraz in the 1950s to his cunning, corrupt pact with the FBI in the 1970s and, finally, to Santa Monica, California where for fifteen years he was hiding in plain sight as one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted. In a lifetime of crime and murder that ended with his arrest in June 2011, Whitey Bulger became one of the most powerful and deadly crime bosses of the twentieth century.

Record details

ISBN: 9780307986535
ISBN: 0307986535
Physical Description: ix, 435 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition
Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2013]
Copyright: ©2013

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1 September 17, 1981 1 -- 2 Riverhead 10 -- 3 Old Harbor 19 -- 4 "Where's Jim?" 29 -- 5 Smile and Swagger 39 -- 6 AWOL: 1949-53 54 -- 7 Packing Heat: 1953-56 66 -- 8 Informer: 1956 83 -- 9 "I'm No Angel, But..." 94 -- 10 Acid Head: 1957 107 -- 11 Ringleader 123 -- 12 Rock: 1959-62 137 -- 13 End of Time 153 -- 14 Chandler's Summit 167 -- 15 Go and Talk 184 -- 16 My Own G-man 195 -- 17 Wild West Broadway 212 -- 18 Whitey Rules 220 -- 19 Categorical Bill and the Tulsa Trilogy 237 -- 20 Gravediggers 250 -- 21 Thirty-Two Words 268 -- 22 Band of Brothers 284 -- 23 Travesty 305 -- 24 No Stone Left Unturned 317 -- 25 Charlie and Carol 330 -- 26 "Charlie Will Meet You in the Garage" 345.