Playboy's History Of Organized Crime

Playboy's History of Organized CrimePart IV: War in the UnderworldThe Gangland War that would end only with the death of the opposing commanders and the birth of a national underworld organization was set off in the last weeks of October 1929 not in some Mafia stronghold in New York's Little Italy but farther downtown, on Wall Street. The collapsing stock market ended a decade of exhilaration and Emile Coue optimism ("Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better") and of a f...