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by Gus Russo

ISBN: 1582342792
ISBN13: 978-1582342795
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (April 2, 2003)
Pages: 496
Category: Americas
Subategory: History

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FREE shipping on qualifying offers. The never-before-told story of the great Chicago crime family called The Outfit. It is a common misperception that all the true-life organized crime stories have been written.

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The Outfit is an outstanding work of investigative reporting about a crucial juncture in American parapolitics. The index alone is worth the price of admission. Congratulations, then, to Gus Russo for digging so deep and writing so well about a very mysterious place in time, and the murderous characters who gave it so much glamour. The Role of Chicago’s Underworld

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Gus Russo does an excellent job of leaving no stone unturned as he chronicles the Outfit's activity from the . It is funny, smartly written and so entertaining that the book is actually a real page turner.

Gus Russo does an excellent job of leaving no stone unturned as he chronicles the Outfit's activity from the jailing of Capone to its decline in the 90s. Along the way we meet the gangsters who made the Chicago mob rich and famous: Tony "Joe Batters" Accardo, Paul "the Waiter" Ricca, "Curly" Humphries, Johnny Roselli,Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik, and Sam "Mooney" Giancana. Russo discusses the role of each in making the Chicago Syndicate the power it was in the world of organized crime.

The Outfit - Gus Russo. Part One: The Outfit. 1 Young Turks in Charge. The Role of Chicago’s Underworld. 2 Curly’s Racket: The Union Takeovers.

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The never-before-told story of the great Chicago crime family called The Outfit.

It is a common misperception that all the true-life organized crime stories have been written. Yet perhaps the most compelling gangster tale is one that has been, until now, too well-hidden. This is the story of the Outfit: the secretive organized crime cartel that began its reign in prohibition-era Chicago before becoming the real puppet master of Hollywood, Las Vegas, and Washington D.C.

The Outfit recounts the adventures and exploits of its bosses, Tony 'Joe Batters' Accardo (the real Godfather), Murray 'The Camel' or 'Curly' Humphreys (one of the greatest political fixers and union organizers this country has ever known), Paul 'The Waiter' Ricca, and Johnny Rosselli (the liaison between the shadowy world and the outside world). Their invisibility was their strength, and what kept their leader from ever spending a single night in jail. The Outfit bosses were the epitome of style and grace, moving effortlessly among national political figures and Hollywood studio heads-until their world started to crumble in the 1970s.

With extensive research including recently released FBI files, the Chicago Crime files of entertainer Steve Allen, first-ever access to the voluminous working papers of the Kefauver Committee, original interviews with the members of the Fourth Estate who pursued the Outfit for forty years, and exclusive access to the journals of Humphrey's widow, veteran journalist Gus Russo uncovers sixty years of corruption and influence, and examines the shadow history of the United States.

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Lavivan

The best part of this book was that it encompassed a wide range of material but stayed primarily about the Chicago Outfit. Many books of this type take a broader view that winds up distorting the readers impressions of what happened in Chicago. However, I was disturbed by the organization of the material, and had trouble following when events happened. As presented the material spanned time periods and jumped between then, often with poor transitions that required me to backtrack constantly to find out when something occurred (and sometimes I could not find it at all!). I also felt that the writer was too quick to point out conclusions that may have been suggested but certainly not proven, thus passing off his opinions as fact. There were also many spelling and grammatical errors, which were surprising based on the experience of the writer. However, it one is looking for a lot of information about the Chicago Outfit, this is perhaps the most comprehensive, almost encyclopedic, source I have encountered, and it is definitely worth reading on that basis.

Kikora

I read the book "The Outfit" by Gus Russo some years ago and then this year just finished Russo's next book on the same topic, underworld crime in the US. It is called the "Supermob" and follows how the guys from the Outfit (the criminal element) in Chicago sprung some of their people loose to initiate/develop controlled criminal activities in other cities and then from those pieces put together an integrated and intesely controlled national puzzle of outfit types loosely connected into one supermob. Both books are eye-opening and intriguing reading for those interested in: 1. law enforcement, 2. the politics of the USA city by city and 3. how criminality reaches into our national level. Of course there are supermobs and outfits existing in all ethnic groups across the world, but these two books focus on the three ethnic groups that started and sustained the groups in the US. Read the two books and think about our country.

Snowskin

Russo shows how times have changed. Bombings and murders were commonplace decades ago. Today far more damage than was ever caused by the mob is caused by the banksters, oligarchs and plutocrats who use pens, emails, bribery and "campaign contributions" and who masquerade as "legitimate businessmen." Russo points out the totally blurred definitional line between legitimate and illegitimate when he shows the integration between organized "legitimate" crime and organized illegitimate crime. Citizens United has brought on the ultimate merger between legitimate and illegitimate. Russo's strength is in his portrayal of the overarching merger between the two and how in many ways they feed from the same trough.

Russo also brings out many historical elements of the structural dynamics in the organization of the crime world: how it went from gang bosses to corporate structures with boards of directors, etc. He also pointed out that in hard times, organized crime was a true job creator and provider of social services, though that was not the main goal of the organizations. All of the bribes eventually cycled through the economy to legit local businesses.

Having grown up in Chicago, it was interesting to read the names of the biggest crooks who now have their names on roads, parks, and public buildings; and how in politics only the names have changed to protect the not-so-innocent.

This should be part of every high school and college history program.

Unh

I wanted to know more about how Chicago grew up, and this is a big part of it. Sure, the story concerns the rise of Vegas, the development of Hollywood and countless other national and international institutions. But the base was here in Chicago, and the main heirs of Al Capone were here as they schemed.

The book had what I was looking for: the various mayors and their interactions with the Outfit, along with the aldermen, police officers and ward bosses that were made or otherwise in the Outfit's pocket. But it explained so much more, as well, such as the continuous takeover of underworld schemes by the upperworld (Vegas, offtrack betting, lottery, etc.), which kept the Outfit on its toes looking for new sources of income (with the obvious parallel to today's expensive "war on drugs").

Russo does a masterful job of sticking mainly to the facts; I've seen some reviews question his use of single, unnamed sources and hearsay, but the book seems to be respected as one of the most factual on the topic. His only obvious diversion is one that comes up often: he holds law enforcement and the legal system in general in low esteem for their focus on Italians when, first, the other waves of immigrants had done much the same things to survive initially in this land, and, second, the upperworld capitalist bosses went unpunished and unpursued for what would be considered greater crimes against humanity.

September

I had about three books I was reading before I opened up this one but quickly found that I could not put it down. Its pages turn as if they were spun by reels. And what I liked best, perhaps, was his introductory section on Chicago history. I am a little weak in that department and enjoyed his description of the city on pillars that gave rise to the term "underworld." If you ever were hazy about the background of the bosses in Casino you won't be after you finish the Outfit--which is actually a name that Joe Pesci uses to describe their thing at the start of the Scorsese picture. Russo's narrative makes clear the corporate nature of these particular Mafiosi which was crucial to their success. Their vision was crafted by Johnny Torrio and confirmed by Al Capone along with Joe Accardo. The sections on the fifties and sixties were the most interesting as were the roles played by LBJ and Ramsay Clark in their partial rebirth after the death of JFK. This is a book both entertaining and educational.

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