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Chicago Heights: Little Joe College, the Outfit, and the Fall of Sam Giancana by
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- 9780809336722
- Book Title
- Chicago Heights : Little Joe College, the Outfit, and the Fall of Sam Giancana
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Social Science
- Topic
- Personal Memoirs, Organized Crime, Criminals & Outlaws, Criminology
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 184 Pages
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Winner, ISHS Best of Illinois History Award, 2019 In this riveting true story of coming of age in the Chicago Mob, Charles "Charley" Hager is plucked from his rural West Virginia home by an uncle in the 1960s and thrown into an underworld of money, cars, crime, and murder on the streets of Chicago Heights. Street-smart and good with his hands, Hager is accepted into the working life of a chauffeur and "street tax" collector, earning the moniker "Little Joe College" by notorious mob boss Albert Tocco. But when his childhood friend is gunned down by a hit man, Hager finds himself a bit player in the events surrounding the mysterious, and yet unsolved, murder of mafia chief Sam Giancana. Chicago Heights is part rags-to-riches story, part murder mystery, and part redemption tale. Hager, with author David T. Miller, juxtaposes his early years in West Virginia with his life in crime, intricately weaving his own experiences into the fabric of mob life, its many characters, and the murder of Giancana. Fueled by vivid recollections of turf wars and chop shops, of fix-ridden harness racing and the turbulent politics of the 1960s, Chicago Heights reveals similarities between high-level organized crime in the city and the corrupt lawlessness of Appalachia. Hager candidly reveals how he got caught up in a criminal life, what it cost him, and how he rebuilt his life back in West Virginia with a prison record. Based on interviews with Hager and supplemented by additional interviews and extensive research by Miller, the book also adds Hager's unique voice to the volumes of speculation about Giancana's murder, offering a plausible theory of what happened on that June night in 1975.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN-10
0809336723
ISBN-13
9780809336722
eBay Product ID (ePID)
240964596
Product Key Features
Book Title
Chicago Heights : Little Joe College, the Outfit, and the Fall of Sam Giancana
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Organized Crime, Criminals & Outlaws, Criminology
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Social Science
Number of Pages
184 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hv6248.H143a3 2018
Reviews
"This distinctly personal memoir of mob life as it played out for Charles Hager in Chicago Heights, Illinois, in the 1960s and 1970s is a candid, revealing, and up-close statement about gangster life on the fringe. It's not a world of glamour and the Godfather. It's tough. It's gritty. It's violent and it's often ugly."--Richard C. Lindberg, author of Gangland Chicago: Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City "This book provides a fascinating look into one of the most famous murders in gangland history. It also challenges widely held beliefs about the organization of the Outfit, the traditional organized crime group in Chicago. Easily readable and insightful."--Robert M. Lombardo, author of Organized Crime in Chicago: Beyond the Mafia "This is a well-written 'personal document' in the Chicago School tradition, indispensable for those who want to understand the day-to-day workings of the Outfit."--John M. Hagedorn, author of The Insane Chicago Way: The Daring Plan by Chicago Gangs to Create a Spanish Mafia, "This distinctly personal memoir of mob life as it played out for Charles Hager in Chicago Heights, Illinois, in the 1960s and 1970s is a candid, revealing, and up-close statement about gangster life on the fringe. It's not a world of glamour and the Godfather. It's tough. It's gritty. It's violent and it's often ugly."--Richard C. Lindberg, author of Gangland Chicago: Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City "This book provides a fascinating look into one of the most famous murders in gangland history. It also challenges widely held beliefs about the organization of the Outfit, the traditional organized crime group in Chicago. Easily readable and insightful."--Robert M. Lombardo, author of Organized Crime in Chicago: Beyond the Mafia "This is a well-written 'personal document' in the Chicago School tradition, indispensable for those who want to understand the day-to-day workings of the Outfit."--John M. Hagedorn, author of The Insane Chicago Way: The Daring Plan by Chicago Gangs to Create a Spanish Mafia "A simply fascinating contribution to the growing library of American organized crime biographies and histories in general, and the Chicago Outfit in particular, "Chicago Heights: Little Joe College, the Outfit, and the Fall of Sam Giancana" is an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to personal reading lists, as well as community, and academic library Organized Crime collections and supplemental studies reading lists in particular."--Carl Logan, Midwest Book Review
Table of Content
Contents Foreword Louis Corsino Prologue Introduction 1. Triply Damned 2. Chicago, Uncle Columbus, and a New Life 3. The Pride of Dingess 4. Clothes Make the Boy 5. Home Again 6. An Unmade Man 7. A License to Steal 8. The Ropes 9. You Can't Win, You Can't Break Even, You Can't Even Leave the Game 10. Mr. Lucky 11. A Punk in the Trunk 12. I'm the Guy 13. Goodbye Sam, Goodbye Dick 14. With Fresh Eyes 15. Old Haunts 16. A Bag of Bones Can Talk 17. When You Got a Job to Do, Better Do It Well 18. The Puzzle Pieces Epilogue: From the Mob to the Mines Afterword Ashleigh D'Andrea Acknowledgments Notes Index Gallery beginning on page 47
Copyright Date
2018
Afterword by
D'andrea, Ashleigh
Lccn
2017-048172
Dewey Decimal
364.1092
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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