American Mafia: Chicago: True Stories of Families Who Made Windy City History, Paperback - William Griffith

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From Gotti to Gigante, the names atop today's Mafia organizational charts are old ones. But the times have certainly changed for New York's biggest...

Brown in the Windy City is the first history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago. Lilia Fern n...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Destin JenkinsIllustration(s): 26 halftones, 10 tablesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 20...

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Arlyne Brickman dated the wiseguys but she was wiser than them all...

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Publisher: Cider Mill Press Book Publishers LLCAuthor(s): Tim RaybornIllustration(s): 35Number of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x...

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A doctor and physiologist, Griffith Pugh revolutionised almost every aspect of British high-altitude mountaineering, transforming the climbers' att...

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Reducere. Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit chronicles the storied and hallowed gangland history of the notorious Detroit underworld....

Wayne Jenkins and his team of plain-clothed officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - were the city's lauded and decorated heroes.

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