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Low Light: Birth of Organized Crime in Jazz Age Atlantic City
Low Light Birth of Organized Crime in Jazz Age Atlantic City Author:Stan Cutler Blackmail J. Edgar Hoover — In Jazz Age Atlantic City, gangsters and politicians are happy to do the bidding of vice lord Nucky Johnson, the notorious Czar of the Ritz. Meyer Lansky, one of Nucky's partners, hatches a plan to neutralize The Director of the FBI. A young J. Edgar Hoover is the only man in America with the power to thwart ... more »a plan to organize the gangs in America's cities into the loose confederation that came to be called The Syndicate, The Mob, Murder Incorporated and The Mafia. Lansky's plan requires a high tech solution to committing an impossible crime and the extraordinary skills of the protagonist, Al Rubin.
The characters, both historical and fictional, are good bad guys, bad good guys, and women who find the honkytonk boardwalk a congenial setting for intrigue and pleasure. Low Light is a taut read that adds color and detail to a reader's historical map.
Today's sound bites were yesterday's headlines. Readers gain historical perspective on issues that preoccupied America before the stock market crash of 1929: terrorism, immigration, vice, eavesdropping, the limits of government and the preservation of individual rights.« less