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Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob

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Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob boss but maintained an unspoken family vow of silence. Then an elderly relative prodded: You?re a writer?what are you gonna do about the story?Smalltime is a mob story straight out of central casting?but with a difference, for the small-town mob, which stretched from Schenectady to Fresno, is a mostly unknown world. The location is the brawny postwar factory town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The setting is City Cigar, a storefront next to City Hall, behind which Russ and his brother-in-law, ?Little Joe,? operate a gambling empire and effectively run the town.Smalltime is a riveting American immigrant story that travels back to Risorgimento Sicily, to the ancient, dusty, hill-town home of Antonino Sciotto, the author?s great-grandfather, who leaves his wife and children in grinding

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Author : Russell Shorto

Pages : 272 pages

Publisher : W. W. Norton Company

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ISBN-10 : 0393245586

ISBN-13 : 9780393245585

 
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