American Gangster: And Other Tales of New York

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title American Gangster: And Other Tales of New York
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Mark Jacobson
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 130
Category/GenreSocial and cultural history
True Stories
ISBN/Barcode 9781843547303
ClassificationsDewey:364.109474
Audience
General
Edition Tie-In

Publishing Details

Publisher Atlantic Books
Imprint Atlantic Books
Publication Date 8 November 2007
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

In 1970's New York, the ruthless Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing in more than a million dollars a day. At the height of his power there were so many heroin addicts buying from him on 116th Street that he claimed that the Transit Authority had to change the bus routes. Lucas lived a glamorous life, hobnobbing with sports stars, musicians, and politicians, but he was also a ruthless gangster. He was notorious for using coffins of dead GIs to smuggle heroin into the United States and before his fall, when he was sentenced to seventy years in prison, he played a major role in the near death of New York City.In American Gangster, Marc Jacobson's captivating account of the life of Frank Lucas joins other tales of New York City from the past thirty years. It is a vibrant, intoxicating, many-layered portrait of one of the most fascinating cities in the world from one of America's most acclaimed journalists

Author Biography

Mark Jacobson is the author of 12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time: A Semi-Dysfunctional Family Circumnavigates the Globe, Teenage Hipster in the Modern World, and the novels Gojiro and Everybody and No One. He has been a contributing editor to Rolling Stone, Esquire, Village Voice and New York Magazine.