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Author | : Gavin Schmitt |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0738594431 |
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The sky was the limit, as the Mafia indulged in running alcohol, extortion, protection rackets, adn skimming from Las Vegas casinos. The Cream City had its crooked lawyers, corrupt cops, and even a mayor on the take. There was the blood of those who dared to stand in the syndicate's way, who were found dead in ditches or as victims of car bombs. While now considered extinct, the Milwaukee Family was once a dominant force in the Midwest.
Author | : Wayne Clingman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-04-03 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 9781963835083 |
Download The Life and Times of Frank Balistrieri (Illustrated Edition) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Based on hundreds of FBI documents obtained by a Freedom of Information Request (as well as substantiating research), the authors lay out a timeline of Frank "The Mad Bomber" Balistrieri's rise through the ranks of the Italian-American criminal underground through his reign controlling Milwaukee. From car bombs to the fabled las Vegas skim, Balistrieri's little-known story is captivating.
Author | : Robin Pickering-Iazzi |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2015-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442629088 |
Download The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Pickering-Iazzi uses an array of cultural documents from 1990 to the present to examine the myths, values, codes of behaviour, and relationships produced by the Italian mafia through a wide cross-disciplinary lens.
Author | : Joseph D. Pistone |
Publisher | : Hodder Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Mafia |
ISBN | : 9780340922651 |
Download Donnie Brasco Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 1978, the US government waged a war against organised crime. One man was left behind the lines. From 1976 until 1981, Special Agent Pistone lived undercover with the Mafia. Only able to visit his young family once every few months, Pistone - under the alias Donnie Brasco - ate, drank, partied, worked and sometimes killed with the wiseguys. He got so close that his Mafia partner, Lefty Ruggiero, asked him to officiate as best man at his wedding. Pistone's eventual testimony, in such spectacular prosecutions as 'the Pizza Connection' and 'the Mafia Commission' resulted in more than 200 indictments and 100 convictions of members of organised crime.
Author | : Patricia A. Lynch |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0738598739 |
Download Milwaukee's Soldiers Home Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
As the country sought healing and peace after the Civil War, Wisconsin citizens took up Pres. Abraham Lincoln's challenge "to care for him who shall have borne the battle." Their efforts paved the way for the establishment in Milwaukee of one of the original three branches of the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. In May 1867, the first 60 veterans, including a musician from the War of 1812, moved to a single building on 400 rolling acres west of Milwaukee. By the end of the 19th century, the bustling campus boasted its own hospital, chapel, library, theater, and recreation hall, in addition to the grand main building. Subsequent wars and military conflicts created a need for additional buildings and services. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 2011, the campus continues to offer a healing environment for today's patients and stands as a testimony to advances in veteran health care.
Author | : Martin Hintz |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738533537 |
Download Italian Milwaukee Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Milwaukee's Italian families have a distinguished heritage, one that began in a great rush to the city shortly before the turn of the 19th century. Seeking a way out of the economic misery of their homeland, tens of thousands of Italians made their way to the Midwest, lured by the promise of Milwaukee's well-paying factory and service industry jobs. The emigres brought their colorful traditions and culture with them, making themselves at home in close-knit neighborhoods. Arrivals from various villages settled into specific blocks, with a widespread Sicilian contingent living in the old Third Ward, while Italians from the north settled in Bay View. Others moved into the Brady Street area. Not afraid to work, at first the Italians were railroad employees, fruit peddlers, refuse collectors, shopkeepers, tavern owners, or skilled craft workers in the masonry and stone trades. Today, the descendants of those first arrivals make up an extraordinary share of Milwaukee's business leaders, politicians, clergy, restaurateurs, and educators, while others have become police officers and military personnel. The Italian Community Center and Festa Italiana continue to provide marvelous opportunities to socialize.
Author | : Joseph A. Rodriguez |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738540306 |
Download Latinos in Milwaukee Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"I didn't know there were Latinos in Wisconsin" is one of the more frequently heard comments when visiting outside of the state. In fact, more than 100,000 Latinos live in Milwaukee, and the continued growth of this community is visible in every segment of the city. Milwaukee's Latino community began humbly as a "Colonia Mexicana" in the 1920s, when Mexicans were recruited to work in the city's tanneries. Subsequent waves of workers came from Texas to work in Wisconsin's agricultural fields. In the early 1950s, Puerto Ricans began arriving to the area, and the population doubled in the 1990s.
Author | : Jennifer Watson Schumacher |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738560373 |
Download German Milwaukee Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
German immigrants began arriving to Milwaukee in the 1830s. By 1859, over one-third of the city was German. They opened schools and churches, started businesses, ran for office, and introduced professional German theater, art, and music to the city. Milwaukee soon became known throughout the United States--and even abroad--as the "German Athens of North America." There is a reason Milwaukee is known as the city of beer and brats, why it is here that the biggest Germanfest in the country takes place, and why still today the German language can be seen and heard throughout the city. As the well-known German newspaper the Frankfurter Allgemeine stated in 2008, "Deutscher als Milwaukee ist nirgendwo in Amerika" (There is nowhere in America more German than in Milwaukee).
Author | : Scott M. Burnstein |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2006-10-16 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 143963310X |
Download Motor City Mafia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Learn the story behind one of Detroit's most infamous mobs with rare photographs documenting their rise and fall. Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit chronicles the storied and hallowed gangland history of the notorious Detroit underworld. Scott M. Burnstein takes the reader inside the belly of the beast, tracking the bloodshed, exploits, and leadership of the southeast Michigan crime syndicate as never before seen in print. Through a stunning array of rare archival photographs and images, Motor City Mafia captures Detroit's most infamous past, from its inception in the early part of the 20th century, through the years when the iconic Purple Gang ruled the city's streets during Prohibition, through the 1930s and the formation of the local Italian mafia, and the Detroit crime family's glory days in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, all the way to the downfall of the area's mob reign in the 1980s and 1990s.
Author | : David B. Holmes |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738552248 |
Download Chinese Milwaukee Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The history of Chinese Milwaukee begins in April 1874, with the opening by Wing Wau of a Chinese laundry at 86 Mason Street. Other Chinese soon followed, and by 1888, there were at least 30 Chinese laundries operating in the city. Charlie Toy moved to Milwaukee in 1904 and within two decades had built both one of the largest Chinese trading businesses in the United States and a six-story Chinese-style building in downtown Milwaukee described as the largest and most luxurious Chinese restaurant building in the world. An example of the community's influence as a whole is the period 1937 to 1940, when the community of less than 300 residents contributed more money to the Chinese war effort against Japan than any other Chinese community in the United States except San Francisco.