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The Rackets

2012-03-06 Fiction
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Release : 2012-03-06
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Rackets by : Thomas Kelly

Download or read book The Rackets written by Thomas Kelly. This book was released on 2012-03-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVFired from the mayor’s office, a political flack ends up in his old neighborhood, with a newly dangerous mission/div DIVJimmy Dolan should have known better than to shove Frankie Keefe. Keefe may be scum—a corrupt teamster president who’s looking forward to crushing Jimmy’s father in the next union election—but Jimmy is the mayor’s right hand man, and kowtowing to scum is his job. After hearing one too many cracks about his father, Jimmy shoves the union boss onto the floor, in full view of some of the city’s most powerful people. In a flash, Jimmy’s career is finished./divDIV /divDIVHe returns to Inwood, in the wilds of north Manhattan, to pick up the pieces. But when his father is murdered, Jimmy takes up the old man’s campaign against Frankie Keefe. It may be suicide, but he’s got nothing else to lose. After years in City Hall, Jimmy Dolan is about to learn how ugly New York politics can get./div

The Rackets

2003 Fathers and sons
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Release : 2003
Genre : Fathers and sons
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Book Synopsis The Rackets by : Thomas Kelly

Download or read book The Rackets written by Thomas Kelly. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Dolan, onetime roughneck construction worker, is now an Ivy League-educated advance man for New York City's mayor. When he strikes out against a corrupt union boss at a power breakfast, he is fired. Meanwhile, Jimmy's father is running for president of the Teamsters. He is brutally muscled out of the race, so Jimmy must risk his life and return to the working-class world he left behind. Set in the union halls, taverns and half-built skyscrapers of a Manhattan, populated by Irish racketeers, Italian mobsters and Russian killers, THE RACKETS is a fast-paced literary thriller that paints a vivid portrait of an urban underworld rarely seen in fiction.

Reds or Rackets?

1988-11-04 Political Science
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Release : 1988-11-04
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Reds or Rackets? by : Howard Kimeldorf

Download or read book Reds or Rackets? written by Howard Kimeldorf. This book was released on 1988-11-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is the American working class different? For generations, scholars and activists alike have wrestled with this question, with an eye to explaining why workers in the United States are not more like their radicalized European counterparts. Approaching the question from a different angle, Reds or Rackets? provides a fascinating examination of the American labor movement from the inside out, as it were, by analyzing the divergent sources of radicalism and conservatism within it. Kimeldorf focuses on the political contrast between East and West Coast longshoremen from World War I through the early years of the Cold War, when the difference between the two unions was greatest. He explores the politics of the West Coast union that developed into a hot bed of working class insurgency and contrasts it with the conservative and racket-ridden East Coast longshoreman's union. Two unions, based in the same industry—as different as night and day. The question posed by Kimeldorf is, why? Why "reds" on one coast and racketeers on the other? To answer this question Kimeldorf provides a systematic comparison of the two unions, illuminating the political consequences of occupational recruitment, industry structure, mobilization strategies, and industrial conflict during this period. In doing so, Reds orRackets? sheds new light on the structural and historical bases of radical and conservative unionism. More than a comparative study of two unions, Reds or Rackets? is an exploration of the dynamics of trade unionism, sources of membership loyalty, and neglected aspects of working class consciousness. It is an incisive and valuable study that will appeal to historians, social scientists, and anyone interested in understanding the political trajectory of twentieth-century American labor.

When the Rackets Reigned

2008-06-15 History
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Release : 2008-06-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis When the Rackets Reigned by : Ed Taggert

Download or read book When the Rackets Reigned written by Ed Taggert. This book was released on 2008-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Kefauver Committee hearings in the U.S. Senate in 1951, it was revealed that organized crime was extending its tentacles into Reading, PA. Five years later, after a new Democratic administration took over in the city, the IRS launched a campaign to collect taxes from gambling machine operators. Two years after that the federal Alcohol and Tax Unit raided a huge still and IRS agents completed investigations of two large numbers banks. After President Kennedy signed into law interstate gambling legislation in 1961, J. Edgar Hoover sent 100 FBI agents into Reading to arrest more than 100 gamblers in a large craps casino. Year after year local law enforcement looked the other way as racketeers took over the city. A bookie working for the Philadelphia Mafia was murdered in Reading before testifying at a grand jury hearing. The local mob kingpin, Abe Minker, was eventually convicted and imprisoned, as was Mayor John Kubacki. The war raged for six years before organized crime lost its control of vice in Reading.

War is a Racket

2018-01-19 Political Science
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Release : 2018-01-19
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis War is a Racket by : Smedley Butler

Download or read book War is a Racket written by Smedley Butler. This book was released on 2018-01-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler frankly discusses how business interests commercially benefit (including war profiteering) from warfare. He had been appointed commanding officer of the Gendarmerie during the United States occupation of Haiti, which lasted from 1915 to 1934.

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