The Luciano Story

by Sid Feder

Overview

No gangster has ever been more powerful than Charles “Lucky” Luciano (1897-1962). By the mid-1920s, he had taken over the New York bordellos and was making more than a million dollars a year. In 1931 he engineered the murders of the two reigning New York crime bosses, Joe Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano, and quickly took over the entire New York crime racket.

The Luciano Story is the definitive biography of this legendary gangster, based on years of research and dozens of interviews with Luciano himself and among other first-hand accounts. First published in 1954, this book authenticated, for the first time, the far-reaching and sinister operations of the international crime syndicate and its direction by the keenest criminal mastermind in American history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787201323
Publisher:	Hauraki Publishing
Publication date:	10/21/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	237
Sales rank:	646,842
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Sid Feder (1909/10 - February 22, 1960) was a veteran war correspondent and sports writer, author, and publicity director for the Victoria Rosebuds baseball team. Born in Lakewood, New Jersey, he attended New York University and wrote for the Associated Press from 1931-1947, when he became a freelance writer. He was the co-author of a number of books, including Murder, Inc., The Luciano Story and Blondes, Brunettes & Bullets. He died of a heart ailment in Victoria, Texas at the age of 50 in 1960.