Sam "Mooney" Giancana started as a hitman for Al Capone. Violent and ambitious, he clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy. In Hollywood he "did business" with major stars such as Marilyn Monroe, with the CIA, Cuba, the Vatican, Ferdinand Marcos and the Shah of Iran. And when Joseph Kennedy gave him the chance to use mob muscle to get his son John elected, he jumped at it; JFK would be in the White House and Giancana would be the power behind the throne. But then the Kennedys double-crossed him, and with crusading ...
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Sam "Mooney" Giancana started as a hitman for Al Capone. Violent and ambitious, he clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy. In Hollywood he "did business" with major stars such as Marilyn Monroe, with the CIA, Cuba, the Vatican, Ferdinand Marcos and the Shah of Iran. And when Joseph Kennedy gave him the chance to use mob muscle to get his son John elected, he jumped at it; JFK would be in the White House and Giancana would be the power behind the throne. But then the Kennedys double-crossed him, and with crusading zeal they went after the Mafia. So Giancana went after the Kennedys - and, Giancana's brother and son claim in this book, altered the course of American history. The book offers evidence of Giancana's involvement in the deaths of both Kennedy and Monroe, and of the partnership between the Federal government and organized crime.
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Add this copy of Double Cross: the Story of the Man Who Controlled to cart. $4.56, very good condition, Sold by HPB-Ruby rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1992 by Time Warner Books UK.
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The item shows wear from consistent use but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover if applicable. Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs access code or other supplemental materials.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Kennedy Assassinations 366 pages. Illustrated. Price-clipped. The amazing and brutal life and career Mafia kingpin Sam Giancana as related by his brother Chuck and Chuck's son Samuel M. Giancana. Relates amazing stories, such as the long time relationship between Giancana and bootlegger Joseph P. Kennedy, father of John F. Kennedy; Giancana's ties to the CIA; much more.
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Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled. DUST JACKET: Moderately Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. The Most Important Mafia Document Ever Published. SUB-TITLE: The Story of the Man Who Controlled America. COVER CREDITS: The Bettmann Archive; London Features (International Ltd); Topham Picture Source; Hulton Picture Company. SYNOPSIS: Certain to send shock waves throughout America, make headlines internationally and confirm many theories surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Double Cross is the most important Mafia document ever published. From the only person with whom Sam "Mooney" Giancana could fearlessly share his most incriminating and dangerous secrets, his younger brother Chuck, comes the complete Giancana saga. It began in Chicago during the violent years of Prohibition where Sam "Mooney" Giancana served as hitman and wheelman for Al Capone, participated in the St Valentine's Day massacre and murdered scores of men before he was twenty years old. Double Cross records his frank confessions of rule by terror, the method he used to dominate all Mafia activities west of the Mississippi. Chuck then narrates how his brother opened Las Vegas to the Outfit and became a major Hollywood financier, serving as benefactor to many major stars in Tinseltown as well as to such international figures as Ferdinand Marcos, the Shah of Iran and King Farouk. But it is Giancana's candid and illuminating disclosures of his contact with the CIA and the Kennedy family which will cause the greatest furore. Double Cross reveals how Giancana and his mobster colleagues collaborated with the CIA in Cuba, the Vatican, the Middle East and South East Asia, and made millions from that association. It openly acknowledges the long liaison between the Mob and ex-bootlegger Joseph P. Kennedy; how Sam and his cohorts bought votes and manipulated presidential elections; how he used Marilyn Monroe, and how he was able to record the extra-marital activities of Jack and Bobby Kennedy. Double Cross is a chilling, appallingly matter-of-fact account of the underworld control of a nation and is also a shockingly intimate portrayal of life within a Mafia family. It contains disclosures from insiders implicating the Outfit in a seemingly endless stream of assassinations, scams, scandals and crimes. The book provides the missing pieces of the jigsaw of American history which investigators have been trying to uncover for decades. Chuck is the brother of Sam "Mooney" Giancana. Sam is the son of Chuck and the godson of "Mooney".
