THE MAFIA IS NOT AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

by Nicholas Gage ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1, 1971

Nick Gage, an investigative reporter who covers and sometimes uncovers organized slip and slide (mostly Mafiosi doings), has raided his bibliography, trotting out previously published items on Meyer Lansky, ""the main architect of the giant conglomerate that is organized crime in the United States""; on syndicate activities and watering holes abroad; on Joe Colombo, recently shot; on Mafia male chauvinism; etc., all of which appeared earlier in such worthies as the Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan. There are a few new (?) pieces: Frank Sinatra's links with the Mafia (Gage draws on a confidential Justice Department report obtained through ""special sources""); gangland women; a hasty review of the melted pot ethnicity of big time crime leaders and soldiers. Twelve essays in all, none very revelatory and certainly not pathbreaking though we do learn (in the introduction) that the life of an investigative reporter is not all it's cracked up to be. This bad breath is foreworded by Robert Morgenthau who says ""Nick often writes about the underworld with touches of wry humor."" Which is the only good thing about this stale collection.

Pub Date: Oct. 1, 1971

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1971

Categories: NONFICTION