In the Godfather Garden: The Long Life and Times of Richie the Boot Boiardo
Richard Linnett
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Description for In the Godfather Garden: The Long Life and Times of Richie the Boot Boiardo
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In the Godfather Garden is the true story of the life of Richie “the Boot” Boiardo, one of the most powerful and feared men in the New Jersey underworld. The Boot cut his teeth battling the Jewish gang lord Abner Longy Zwillman on the streets of Newark during Prohibition and endured to become one of the East Coast’s top mobsters, his reign lasting six decades.
To the press and the police, this secretive Don insisted he was nothing more than a simple man who enjoyed puttering about in his beloved vegetable garden on his Livingston, New Jersey, estate. ... Read more
In the Godfather Garden is the true story of the life of Richie “the Boot” Boiardo, one of the most powerful and feared men in the New Jersey underworld. The Boot cut his teeth battling the Jewish gang lord Abner Longy Zwillman on the streets of Newark during Prohibition and endured to become one of the East Coast’s top mobsters, his reign lasting six decades.
To the press and the police, this secretive Don insisted he was nothing more than a simple man who enjoyed puttering about in his beloved vegetable garden on his Livingston, New Jersey, estate. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Series
Rivergate Regionals Collection
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813560618
SKU
V9780813560618
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Richard Linnett
RICHARD LINNETT was born in Newark, New Jersey and was educated at George Washington University and Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts. He is the co-author, with Roberto Loiederman, of The Eagle Mutiny, the true story of a mutiny on an American ship during the Vietnam War and its tragic aftermath.
Reviews for In the Godfather Garden: The Long Life and Times of Richie the Boot Boiardo
"Richard Linnett’s riveting, eloquent account of a larger-than-life man, his family, and an era is testimony to the truism among crime writers that nothing we create can ever equal reality—a page turner."
Katherine Hall Page
award-winning author of the Faith Fairchild mystery series
"In the Godfather Garden is a compassionate and remarkable story. This is a deeply-researched and ... Read more
Katherine Hall Page
award-winning author of the Faith Fairchild mystery series
"In the Godfather Garden is a compassionate and remarkable story. This is a deeply-researched and ... Read more