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In My Own Words Book
In the 1940s and 50s, Mickey Cohen was one of America's most flamboyant mobsters, grabbing headlines with notorious regularity. Compiled from his own tape-recorded reminiscences, this book tells the sobering story of a kid from Brooklyn who moved to California's Boyle Heights and learned to live by his own code of ethics...which police, politicians, and celebrities were only too willing to share. Cohen tells how he eagerly gave up a boxing career to work for the men he idolized...Al and Mattie Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Bugsy Siegel. But Mickey's irascible temper made him a 'lamster' not only from the police but from his own organization. He wound up in L.A., where, following Bugsy Siegel's murder, he muscled and nerved his way to the top of the racket world, becoming a fashion plate and … read more...
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