By Fred D. Pasley
New York: Ives Washburn Publisher, 1931.
First edition.
Near fine in original black cloth, titles and rules in red; decorative endpapers; in a somewhat age-toned, very good dust jacket that is mildly shelf worn and missing several pieces from the spine ends.
A contemporary exposé on American Gangsters by the author of Al Capone: The Biography of a Self-made Man (1930).
"In tracing the growth of rackets from their intergang phases to their
present national scope, Mr. Pasley reports that New York is the most
heavily infested of all American cities with this particular form of
criminal enterprise. He admits that Chicago was the cradle of the
racket, but maintains that New York has far outstripped all competitors
and has developed a form of extortion which is better organized and
which produces less bloodshed."--New York Times Archive.
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