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Whitey, February 2013
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The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss
Crown
February 2013
On Sale: February 19, 2013
436 pages
ISBN: 0307986535
EAN: 9780307986535
Kindle: B009UAO2B4
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Non-Fiction Biography
From the bestselling authors of Black Mass comes
the definitive biography of Whitey Bulger, the most brutal
and sadistic crime boss since Al Capone. Drawing on a trove of sealed files and previously classified
material, Whitey digs deep into the mind of James J.
“Whitey” Bulger, the crime boss and killer who brought the
FBI to its knees. He is an American original —a psychopath
who fostered a following with a frightening mix of terror,
deadly intimidation and the deft touch of a politician who
often helped a family in need meet their monthly rent. But
the history shows that despite the early false myths
portraying him as a Robin Hood figure, Whitey was a supreme
narcissist, and everything—every interaction with family and
his politician brother Bill Bulger, with underworld cohorts,
with law enforcement, with his South Boston neighbors, and
with his victims—was always about him. In an Irish-American
neighborhood where loyalty has always been rule one, the
Bulger brand was loyalty to oneself. Whitey deconstructs Bulger's insatiable hunger for
power and control. Building on their years of reporting and
uncovering new Bulger family records, letters and prison
files, Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill examine and reveal the
factors and forces that created the monster. It's a deeply
rendered portrait of evil that spans nearly a century,
taking Whitey from the streets of his boyhood Southie in the
1940s to his cell in Alcatraz in the 1950s to his cunning,
corrupt pact with the FBI in the 1970s and, finally, to
Santa Monica, California where for fifteen years he was
hiding in plain sight as one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted.
In a lifetime of crime and murder that ended with his arrest
in June 2011, Whitey Bulger became one of the most powerful
and deadly crime bosses of the twentieth century. This is
his story.
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