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Article: The renegade behind `gangster chic'
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 25, 2009
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The names alone constitute a writer's funhouse - Punchy, Tarzan,
Louie Cadillac, Peanuts, Vinnie the Sicilian, the Worm, Big
Lollypop, and Little Lollypop. It's no wonder Crazy Joe Gallo and
his breakaway mob clan made for "the best tabloid copy since the bad
days of Prohibition," writes the author of this fresh take on the
criminal underworld of New York at midcentury.
Joe, the charismatic one of the three Gallo brothers from Red
Hook, Brooklyn, may have been behind the barbershop slaying of
Albert Anastasia, the brutal "Lord High Executioner" of Murder, Inc.
Author Tom Folsom doesn't claim to know the answer. In retelling the
gaudy saga of Crazy Joe and the havoc he created within New ...