Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution
Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution
Publisher: William Morrow | ISBN: 0061147710 | edition 2008-06-01 | PDF | 417 pages | 2,9 mb
Publisher: William Morrow | ISBN: 0061147710 | edition 2008-06-01 | PDF | 417 pages | 2,9 mb
In modern-day Havana, the remnants of the glamorous past are everywhere—the old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars, and flickering neon signs speak of a bygone era that is widely familiar and often romanticized, but little understood. In Havana Nocturne, T. J. English offers a riveting, multifaceted true tale of organized crime, political corruption, roaring nightlife, revolution, and international conflict that interweaves the dual stories of the Mob in Havana and the event that would overshadow it, the Cuban Revolution.
As the Cuban people labored under a violently repressive regime throughout the 1950s, Mob leaders Meyer Lansky and Charles "Lucky" Luciano turned their eye to Havana. To them, Cuba was the ultimate dream, the greatest hope for the future of the American Mob in the post-Prohibition years of intensified government crackdowns. But when it came time to make their move, it was Lansky, the brilliant Jewish mobster, who reigned supreme. Having cultivated strong ties with the Cuban government and in particular the brutal dictator Fulgencio Batista, Lansky brought key mobsters to Havana to put his ambitious business plans in motion.
Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution
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