MAFIA PRINCESS - GROWING UP IN SAM GIANCANA'S FAMILY

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: WILLIAM MORROW AND COMPANY, INC., NEW YORK, NY, 1084

0688026206 / 9780688026202

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304 PAGES.THIS IS AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY THE FIRST BORN CHILD OF NOTORIOUS CHICAGO GANGSTER AND MAFIA BOSS, SAM "MOMO: GIANCANO. THE AUTHOR RELATES HER VERY PROTECTED CATHOLIC CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOLING THAT WAS OVER SEEN BY THE IRON RULE OF HER FATHER SAM "MOMO" GIANCANA. SHE REBELLED AND UNHAPPILY STRUGGLED THROUGH A NUMBER OF PAROCHIAL AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS. SERIOUS MENTAL ISSUES THAT ACCOMPANIED HER REBELLIOUS NATURE RESULTED IN THE NECESSITY FOR PSYCHIATRIC CARE AND EVEN ELECTRO-SHOCK THERAPY. AN UNHAPPY ABUSIVE MARRIAGE LED TO A DIVORCE THAT WAS FORBIDDEN BY HER FATHER AS UNACCEPTABLE IN THE SICILIAN MAFIA MOB CULTURE. THAT EVENT FINALLY PRECIPITATED HER FATHER COMPLETELY DISOWNING HER AND ISOLATION FROM HER SIBLINGS. THE BOOK RELATES A NUMBER OF EVENTS IN HER FATHER'S NOTORIOUS CAREER INCLUDING HIS BUSINESS RELATIONS AND CHICAGO CONNECTIONS WITH GAMBLING CASINOS IN LAS VEGAS, ON CRUISE SHIPS AND INTERNATIONALLY. HIS BUSINESS RELATIONS IN UNIONS AND IN THE OPERATIONS OF MOVIE THEATRES AND EVEN HOLLYWOOD PRODUCTIONS. THOSE ACTIVITIES LED TO HIS RELATIONS WIITH MANY HOLLYWOOD AND LAS VEGAS STARS AND A ROMANTIC RELANTIONSHIP WITH PHYLLIS McGUIRE OF THE SINGING McGUIRE SISTERS, HIS RELATIONS WITH THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND HIS BROTHER, ROBERT KENNEDY IS PRESENTED. THERE WAS A SORDID RELATIONSHIP WITH THE "CIA" IN THEIR PLANNING OR SUPPOSED EFFORTS TO ASSASSINATE CUBAN PRESIDENT FfIDEL CASTRO, HER FATHER'S MURDER BY A SUPPOSED CLOSE MAFIA FRIEND THAT OCCURRED JUST PRIOR TO HIS SCHEDULED TESTIMONY BEFORE A UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE IS DETAILED , SAM GIANCANA'S MURDER AND FUNERAL AND SECRETIVE DISPOSAL OF HIS COLLECTIONS OF GOLD COINS, MONEY, ARTWORK AND OTHER COLLECTIONS IS UNKNOWN TO THE AUTHOR. THE MULTIPLE MILLIIONS GARNERED BY SAM GIANCANA DURING HIS LIFETIME JUST DISAPPEARED. THERE ARE NINE B/W PHOTOGRAPHS OF ANTINETT'E'S MOTHER, HER SHORT CAREER AS A MODEL, THE FAMILY AND LATER IN LIFE. Size: 6 1/4" X 9 1/2".…

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Titel
MAFIA PRINCESS - GROWING UP IN SAM GIANCANA'S FAMILY
Autor
ANTOINETTE GIANCANA AND THOMAS C. RENNER,
Verlag
WILLIAM MORROW AND COMPANY, INC., NEW YORK, NY
Erscheinungsjahr
1084
Zustand
Very Good
Schutzumschlag
FINE CONDITION
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
0688026206
ISBN-13
9780688026202
Auflage
FIRST EDITION - FOURTH PRINTING.
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