The Boston Mob Guide - Ford, Beverly; Schorow, Stephanie
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Boston journalists Beverly Ford and Stephanie Schorow navigate the backrooms and seedy hangouts throughout the real story of Boston's gangster past. The capture of notorious mobster James "Whitey" Bulger closed an infamous chapter in Boston history, yet the city's criminal underworld has a long and bloody rap sheet that stretches back to the beginning of the twentieth century. Ford and Schorow reveal the underbelly of Boston through profiles of ruthless gangsters like Charles "King" Solomon, the Angiulo brothers, Joseph "The Animal" Barboza, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, and many more who carried out deadly hits and lucrative heists.…mehr

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Boston journalists Beverly Ford and Stephanie Schorow navigate the backrooms and seedy hangouts throughout the real story of Boston's gangster past. The capture of notorious mobster James "Whitey" Bulger closed an infamous chapter in Boston history, yet the city's criminal underworld has a long and bloody rap sheet that stretches back to the beginning of the twentieth century. Ford and Schorow reveal the underbelly of Boston through profiles of ruthless gangsters like Charles "King" Solomon, the Angiulo brothers, Joseph "The Animal" Barboza, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, and many more who carried out deadly hits and lucrative heists.
Autorenporträt
Beverly Ford is a Boston-based journalist and author who has spent more than twenty years as a reporter and freelance writer for the Boston Herald, the New York Daily News, the London Times, the London Mirror, Access Magazine, Bloomberg News, and other publications. She has written about mob murders and court trials involving several people profiled in this book. She currently works as a freelance investigative journalist for the New England Center for Investigative Journalism. She has ghostwritten two books, including a 1991 book on the Kennedy family, and also authored a book on domestic violence in 2001 for Information. She was among several reporters awarded the 1991 Associated Press Spot News Award for team coverage of a train accident and received awards in 1991 and 1995 for juvenile justice reporting from Parents of Murdered Children. She was also a guest panelist at a 2009 Neiman Foundation series at Harvard University and has lectured on crime and breaking news coverage at Boston-area colleges and universities.