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The Deeds of My Fathers: How My Grandfather and Father Built New York and Creat
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Artikelmerkmale
- Artikelzustand
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Intended Audience
- Adult
- Inscribed
- NO
- ISBN
- 1442204869
- Book Title
- Deeds of My Fathers : How My Grandfather and Father Built New York and Created the Tabloid World of Today
- Publisher
- Philips Turner Books
- Item Length
- 9.6 in
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Genre
- True Crime, Language Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Publishing, United States / 20th Century, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Journalism, General, Organized Crime
- Item Weight
- 31.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Philips Turner Books
ISBN-10
1442204869
ISBN-13
9781442204867
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109193457
Product Key Features
Book Title
Deeds of My Fathers : How My Grandfather and Father Built New York and Created the Tabloid World of Today
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Publishing, United States / 20th Century, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Journalism, General, Organized Crime
Genre
True Crime, Language Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
31.2 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
In writing this admiring account of his grandfather Generoso and father Gene -- 'two titans' who 'changed America''--Pope relied on more than 500 interviews as well as extensive research done for several unpublished books on the family and its enterprises, including two projects commissioned and later aborted by his father. The result is a richly detailed tale of businessmen, mobsters, and politicians that reads like a soap opera written by Mario Puzo. Beginning with Generoso's arrival in New York in 1906, at age 15, with little money, the author tells a multigenerational story in which the immigrant started out as a laborer in Long Island's sand pits, pursued his belief that 'America is a place of dreams coming true' and created a hugely successful building-supply company during New York's 1920s skyscraper boom. He received help from shady characters and shrewd operators, including mobster-friend Frank Costello and attorney Roy Cohn, who provided strong-arm and deal-making expertise in return for favors. The author writes that Gene later distanced the family from mobsters while making the Enquirer a national tabloid and ushering in the era of celebrity journalism. Patriarch Generoso emerges as a savvy opportunist who obtained dirt on his opponents to get his way. His favoring of like-minded Gene over two older sons created long-lived animosities within the family. Gene's mother even told him, 'You are the abortion I should have had.' Throughout the book, Pope provides engrossing stories about Il Progresso's influence in New York and national elections, the long battle to win a place for the sensational Enquirer at supermarket checkouts, and Gene's tyrannical insistence on concocting gripping articles for the tabloid's millions of readers. Also included are portraits of Mussolini, Frank Sinatra, A. J. Liebling, Carlo Tresca, Joe Bonanno and Joe Profaci. Readable and revealing, and the vividly re-created scenes cry out for film treatment., The National Enquirer is celebrated on the eve of its 60th anniversary by Pope's powerful biography of its creators, the family patriarchs. The book, which sometimes reads like a straightforward Puzo sequel, chronicles the arrival of Generoso Pope, the author's grandfather on these shores with $10 and no prospects; Gene, Generoso's son and publisher of the scandalous tabloid; and the realization of the ultimate American immigrant dream. Its chapters detail the Pope men's achievements, the grandfather's construction firm building some of Gotham's landmarks and the father's grooming of a struggling paper into a major publication. Crowded with presidents, celebrities, and mobsters, this bio of ambitious alpha males, in a dysfunctional clan worthy of a soap opera, is among the best portraits of Italian-American life to appear in some time.
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Intense rivalry and Borgia-like cunning made the Pope family one of America's wealthiest and most influential--now a descendent of the two Pope patriarchs chronicles a family that embodied the American century...--Dust jacket flap., This captivating true story reads like a cross between The Godfather and Citizen Kane. It chronicles the emergence in America of an Italian immigrant and his son whose deeds would make them among the most prominent practitioners of power and influence in the new world. Based on previously untapped sources, this engrossing book presents an archetypal story of the American century, told candidly by a consummate insider.
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Book arrived bent. Seller marked this as “very good” condition which is not true. Book is filled with all “work book” part margins filled in by a previous owner. Would have been nice to know before buying. “Very good” condition literally says no writing or marks in margins. Disappointing but it’s less than 5 bucks so not like I spent a lot on it, just don’t appreciate being lied to about the quality/ condition.
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