Hollywood's Celebrity Gangster: The Incredible Life and Times of Mickey Cohen - Softcover

Brad Lewis

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9781929631650: Hollywood's Celebrity Gangster: The Incredible Life and Times of Mickey Cohen

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ISBN 10: 1929631650 ISBN 13: 9781929631650

Publisher: Enigma Books, 2007

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"I have killed no man in the first place that didn't deserve killing . . . I had no alternative. It was either my life or their life."-Mickey Cohen

A marvelously detailed biography of the mobster who controlled Los Angeles for the Mafia, from Bugsy Siegel to Carlo Gambino and the John F. Kennedy assassination. Mickey Cohen was above all a master blackmailer of stars, and they all are on parade within these pages: from Marilyn Monroe to Lana Turner and Dean Martin to Sammy Davis Jr. A vast portrait of America and organized crime from the 1940s to the 1970s seen through the life of Mickey Cohen.

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Hollywood's Celebrity Gangster, The Incredible Life and Times of Mickey Cohen is the first complete story of the infamous Los Angeles gangster. Cohen is a complicated character, whose life is a paradigm for the intermingling of Hollywood, organized crime, and Washington. Mickey Cohen was the first gangster to understand the power of the media, and use it to his advantage. His extensive contact with celebrities and politicians was groundbreaking. From Marilyn Monroe to Frank Sinatra, and Richard Nixon to Reverand Billy Graham, Cohen knew them all. See BradleyLewis.com for more details.

About the Author:

Brad Lewis is a writer, whose focus has ranged from the bizarre world of celebrity doctors to detailed histories of Jewish-American development, spotlighting show business. He wrote the bestselling biography of Milton Berle, My Father, Uncle Miltie, with the fabled comedian's son, a candid look at the irreplaceable television icon. Hollywood’s Celebrity Gangster, The Incredible Life and Times of Mickey Cohen is the only biography of the charismatic and dangerous mobster whose life was a paradigm for the intermingling of Washington, Las Vegas, the entertainment industry and the mob. Great White Doctor is a scalpel thriller centered on the sordid lives and weird sexual habits of "celebrity doctors", exposing high profile specialists who perform unnecessary surgery on their female patients. He has advanced degrees from CUNY, NYU, Columbia University and St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. He has appeared on numerous radio and television programs. Lewis is a native New Yorker.

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