Gangster squad covert cops, the mob, and the battle for Los Angeles
A harrowing narrative of murder and secrets, revenge and heroism in the City of Angels. Lieberman chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII.
| Main Author: | Lieberman, Paul, 1949- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin,
c2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
A harrowing narrative of murder and secrets, revenge and heroism in the City of Angels. Lieberman chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. |
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| Physical Description: |
549 p., [16] p. of plates ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781250020116 (trade pbk.) 1250020115 (trade pbk.) 9781250020154 1250020158 |
| Author Notes: |
PAUL LIEBERMAN spent 24 years as a writer and editor at the Los Angeles Times and before that was projects editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has won dozens of journalism honors, including the Robert F. Kennedy Awards Grand Prize, a George Polk Award, Gerald Loeb Award and American Society of Newspaper Editors Award. He also shared in two team Pulitzer Prizes at the L.A. Times, as a writer on its coverage of the Los Angeles Riots and an editor of its reporting on the Northridge Earthquake. A native New Yorker, Lieberman is a graduate of Williams College and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, where he studied law and social history. He lives in Westchester County with his wife, Heidi, a school administrator. |