Big Apple Gangsters: The Rise and Decline of the Mob in New York - Paperback

by Jeffrey Sussman (Author)

Through profiles of the most colorful and powerful crime bosses, gang members, corrupt cops, and numerous mob associates as well as pivotal events in the history of organized crime, Big Apple Gangsters reveals just how influential the mob has been in controlling large numbers of business not just in New York, but also in other cities.

Author Biography

Jeffrey Sussman is the author of fourteen nonfiction books, as well as numerous articles and short stories about boxing. He is a regular writer for the premier boxing website www.boxing.com and the author of Max Baer and Barney Ross: Jewish Heroes of Boxing (2016) Rocky Graziano: Fists, Fame, and Fortune (2018); and Boxing and the Mob: The Notorious History of the Sweet Science (2019), all three published by Rowman & Littlefield. Sussman is the president of a public relations and marketing firm based in New York City. Visit his website at www.powerpublicity.com.