I also tried this on audiobook and o didn’t like it. Although my day-to-day life isn’t the easiest for picking up and reading, I also felt like I needed time to digest the information. My neighbor brought over this book and said, you have to read this! Even though I read this book over a long period of time, this book was a pager turner from start to finish. All in all, this narrative is rather upsetting, upsetting enough, one hopes, to draw its readers to other, more well documented studies. Although anecdotal, based as they are on what Sam purportedly told Chuck, most of these affiliations are, however, documented in other sources. So, too, are revelations concerning the connections between the mob and such notables as Richard Daley, Joe Kennedy, the Rat Pack, various CIA operatives and officers, Lee Harvey Oswald, Richard Nixon and members of the Pritzker family (one of whom is currently running for office in Illinois). Other than offering some insight into the 20th century Italian mob the book is filled with remarkable revelations, all undocumented, concerning mob involvement in the assassinations of Anton Cermak, the Kennedy brothers, Marilyn Monroe, Patrice Lumumba and others. This is basically a biography of Sam Giancana, ultimately the head of the Chicago 'outfit', as told through the eyes of his younger brother, Chuck, and as written, mostly, by his namesake godson.
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