Ebook: Mickey Cohen: the Life and Crimes of L.A.'s Notorious Mobster

This biography of celebrity gangster Mickey Cohen digs past the sensational headlines to deliver a remarkable story of a man who captivated, corrupted, and terrorized Los Angeles for a generation. When Bugsy Siegel was murdered, his henchman Mickey Cohen took over the criminal activity in Los Angeles. Mickey Cohen attained such power and dominance from the late 1940s until 1976 that he was a regular above-the-fold newspaper name, accumulating a remarkable count of more than 1,000 front-pages in Los Angeles papers alone, and was featured in hundreds of articles in national and international peri.;Cover; Dedication; Prologue: A DANGEROUS PLACE; Act I: THE CALIFORNIA WILDCAT; 1: Boyle Heights Boychik; 2: School of Hard Knocks; 3: The Coasters; 4: Fields of Manna; 5: Young Blood; 6: Picked from the Chorus; 7: Hollywood Byzantine; Act II: KING OF THE SUNSET STRIP; 8: Puttin' on the Dog; 9: A Thousand Hinky Plays; 10: High Jingo; 11: Smog Alert; 12: Star-Crossed; 13: Bum-Steered and Bum-Rapped; 14: Tsuris; 15: Death and Taxes; 16: Judas and Iago; Act III: THE LONG GOODBYE; 17: Shifting Winds; 18: Brave New World; 19: Sacrificial Lamb; 20: Ink Junky; 21: The Oscar; 22: Bombshells and Bobby.