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Crazy Joe Gallo and the Revolution at the Edge of the Underworld
Weinstein Books
May 2009
On Sale: May 5, 2009
256 pages ISBN: 1602860815 EAN: 9781602860810 Hardcover
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A POWERFUL COLLISION OF TRUE CRIME AND POP CULTURE, THE MAD
ONES CAPTURES THE REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT OF THE SIXTIES AND
BRINGS TO LIFE ONE OF THE MOST VIBRANT ANTIHEROES IN
AMERICAN HISTORY. The Mad Ones chronicles the rise and fall of the Gallo
brothers, a trio of reckless young gangsters whose
revolution against New York City's Mafia was inspired by
Crazy Joe Gallo's forays into Greenwich Village counterculture. Crazy Joe, Kid Blast, and Larry Gallo are steeped in legend,
from Bob Dylan's eleven-minute ballad "Joey" to
fictionalizations central to The Godfather trilogy and Jimmy
Breslin's The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. Called the
toughest gang in the city by the NYPD, the Gallos hailed
from the rough Red Hook neighborhood on the Brooklyn
waterfront. As low-level Mafiosi, they were expected to
serve their Don quietly, but the brothers stood apart from
typical gangsters with their hip style, fierce ambition, and
Crazy Joe's manic idealism. Joey aspired to be more than a common hood and immersed
himself among the Beatniks and bohemians of the Village.
Yearning to live the life of an artist, Joey wrote poetry,
painted, and got his kicks devouring existential philosophy.
Celebrated as the "king of the streets" by Dylan, Joey was
embraced by the city's leading cultural figures as an
antihero straight out of Camus. Here, for the first time, is the complete story of the
Gallos' war against the powerful Cosa Nostra, an epic crime
saga that culminates in Crazy Joe's murder on the streets of
Little Italy, where he was gunned down mid-bite into a
forkful of spaghetti in 1972. The Mad Ones is a wildly
satisfying entertainment and a significant work of cultural
history.
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