American Gangster and Other Tales of New York

Informationen zum Autor Mark 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 , Esquire , Village Voice and New York Magazine . American Gangster was published by Atlantic in 2007 and has been made into a major motion picture. Klappentext In 1970s New York, the ruthless Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing in more than a million dollars a day. At the height of his power there were so many heroin addicts buying from him on 116th Street that he claimed that the Transit Authority had to change the bus routes. Lucas lived a glamorous life, hobnobbing with sport stars, musicians, and politicians, but he was also a ruthless gangster. He was notorious for using the coffins of dead GIs to smuggle heroin into the United States and before his fall, when he was sentenced to 70 years in prison, he played a major role in the near death of New York City. In American Gangster , Marc Jacobson's captivating account of the life of Frank Lucas joins other tales of New York City from the past thirty years. It is a vibrant, intoxicating, many-layered portrait of one of the most fascinating cities in the world from one of America's most acclaimed journalists. www.groveatlantic.co.uk Journalism 978 184354 730 3 £8.99 The untold story of Frank Lucas, New York's most notorious drugs lord during the 1970s. Now a blockbuster movie, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. Zusammenfassung The untold story of Frank Lucas, New York's most notorious drugs lord during the 1970s. Now a blockbuster movie, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe.

Product details

• Authors: Marc Jacobson, Mark Jacobson, Mark (Author) Jacobson, Jacobson Mark
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.11.2007
• EAN: 9781843547303
• ISBN: 978-1-84354-730-3
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; New York, True Crime, Biography: general, True stories, Poetry, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime, POETRY / American / African American, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Organized crime, United States of America, USA, Relating to African American people, History of the Americas, c 1970 to c 1980, c 1990 to c 2000, C 1980 To C 1990