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Lädt ... Cradle of Crime: A Daughter's Tributevon Luellen Smiley
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I think this book is one to add to any collection of organized crime books, so Mafia fans look out for this one. But also, I think women will relate (and men too, I’m sure) to discovering the other side of our fathers, the side that faces the world, and also the impact that can have on the creation of our personalities and perception of the world. If I didn’t care to learn about what it was like to be brought up unknowingly in a mobster world, I’d have set it down. However, that wasn’t the case. The story had me too intrigued and I wanted to meet the ending. Smiley’s prose veers toward the purple, which can either test a reader’s patience or satisfy others’ thirst for vivid details. “Meyer turned around, sized me up, and we took off with a jolt,” she writes of seeing mobster Meyer Lansky in Florida when she was a young adult. “His face was a historical map. The lines curved like mountain roads and the bridge of his nose twisted like a tree branch.
This eye-opening memoir, twenty years in the making, chronicles Luellen Smiley's journey into her father's criminal past, beginning ten years after his death. Luellen is the daughter of the late Allen Smiley-Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel's best friend and business partner for ten years. He was seated next to Bugsy the night he was murdered. Smiley's refusal to turn informant despite an order of deportation, and facing ten years in prison, earned Meyer Lansky's respect. The Mafia defended, financed, and protected Allen for the rest of his life. Luellen discounted her father's Mafia association until she was forty years old. Awakened by an identity meltdown, she cut through her silence and confronted her father's criminal activities. Discoveries derived from government surveillance records, newspaper articles, court testimony, classified FBI documents, interviews and conversations with relatives she begins to write this story. Luellen takes the reader along for the ride on her quest to understand her father's allegiance to the mob while also uncovering her own identity-a quest of humiliation, rage, shame, and acceptance. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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