Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob
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Russell Shorto grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake ran the small-town mob in postwar Johnstown, Pennsylvania, but the family kept quiet until an elderly relative pushed him to write the story. Behind City Cigar next to City Hall, Russ and his brother-in-law Little Joe ran gambling and effectively ran the town. Shorto traces the line back to Sicily and a mining-town immigrant life of poverty and prejudice, then partners with his ailing father Tony, the mobster's son, to uncover what a lawless rise cost three generations.
Genres: True Crime
ISBN-13: 9780393245585
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