Books That Changed the World: American Gangster (ePub)
And Other Tales of New York
(Sprache: Englisch)
The "riveting account" of a Harlem drug kingpin-the basis for the Ridley Scott film starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe (Entertainment Weekly).
In the 1970s, Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing inover a million dollars a...
In the 1970s, Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing inover a million dollars a...
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The "riveting account" of a Harlem drug kingpin-the basis for the Ridley Scott film starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe (Entertainment Weekly).
In the 1970s, Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing inover a million dollars a day. So many heroin addicts were buying from him on 116th Street that he claimed the Transit Authority changed the bus routes to avoid them. He lived a glamorous life, hobnobbing with athletes, musicians, and politicians, but Lucas was a ruthless gangster. He was notorious for using the coffins of dead GIs to smuggle heroin into the United States and, before being sentenced to seventy years in prison, he played a major role in the near death of New York City.
InAmerican Gangster, Mark Jacobson's captivating account of the life of Frank Lucas (the basis for the major motion picture) joins other tales of New York City from the past few decades. The collection features a number of Jacobson's most famous essays, as well as previous unpublished work and recent articles on 9/11 conspiracy theorists, America's #1 escort, and Harlem's own Charles Rangel, the retired chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.American Gangsteris a vibrant, many-layered portrait of the most fascinating city in the world, by one of the most acclaimed journalists of our time.
"Gripping reading . . . Whether covering the high life or lowlifes, Jacobson boasts a novelistic eye and muscular prose in the tradition of urban chroniclers like Joseph Mitchell, A.J. Liebling, and Pete Hamill. A-."-Entertainment Weekly
"Mark Jacobson is a living American Master."-New York Daily News
In the 1970s, Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing inover a million dollars a day. So many heroin addicts were buying from him on 116th Street that he claimed the Transit Authority changed the bus routes to avoid them. He lived a glamorous life, hobnobbing with athletes, musicians, and politicians, but Lucas was a ruthless gangster. He was notorious for using the coffins of dead GIs to smuggle heroin into the United States and, before being sentenced to seventy years in prison, he played a major role in the near death of New York City.
InAmerican Gangster, Mark Jacobson's captivating account of the life of Frank Lucas (the basis for the major motion picture) joins other tales of New York City from the past few decades. The collection features a number of Jacobson's most famous essays, as well as previous unpublished work and recent articles on 9/11 conspiracy theorists, America's #1 escort, and Harlem's own Charles Rangel, the retired chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.American Gangsteris a vibrant, many-layered portrait of the most fascinating city in the world, by one of the most acclaimed journalists of our time.
"Gripping reading . . . Whether covering the high life or lowlifes, Jacobson boasts a novelistic eye and muscular prose in the tradition of urban chroniclers like Joseph Mitchell, A.J. Liebling, and Pete Hamill. A-."-Entertainment Weekly
"Mark Jacobson is a living American Master."-New York Daily News
Autoren-Porträt von Mark Jacobson
Marc Jacobson is the author of 12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time: A Semi-Dysfunctional Family Circumnavigates the Globe, Teenage Hipster in the Modern World, and the novels Gojiro and Everyone and No One. He has been a contributing editor to Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Esquire, and New York.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Mark Jacobson
- 2020, 288 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Grove Press
- ISBN-10: 1555846556
- ISBN-13: 9781555846558
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.02.2020
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