American Gangster and Other Tales of New York

Name: American Gangster and Other Tales of New York
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Mark Jacobson
ISBN: 9781433242823

Author: Mark Jacobson

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Unabridged: 10 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 10/10/2007

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, True Crime

Synopsis

Frank Lucas was the ruthless, glamorous king of the 1970s Harlem drug trade who notoriously used GI coffins to smuggle heroin into the United States. In this collection, Jacobson's captivating account of the life of Frank Lucas joins other tales of New York City to form a vibrant portrait of that most fascinating city.

About Mark Jacobson

Mark Jacobson, a contributing editor at New York Magazine, is a frequent contributor to the Village Voice, National Geographic, Natural History, Men's Journal, Esquire, and other publications. His New York article "The Return of Super-Fly," a profile of heroin kingpin Frank Lucas, was the basis for Ridley Scott's recent film American Gangster. Mark is the author of 12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time, Teenage Hipster in the Modern World, Gojiro, and Everyone and No One. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Conner

This had the potential to be really good. I could have enjoyed all of the stories about NYC but most of them were not very interesting. I bought this book years ago and honestly just plowed through it to get it out of the way.......more

Goodreads review by Realini

American Gangster, written by Steven Zaillian and Mark Jacobson A different version of this note and thoughts on other books are available at: - [URL not allowed] and [URL not allowed] - "There are two sides to the American Dream" This is the tagline of the movie. And it......more

Goodreads review by Graham

30 years of New York City journalism separated into sections, "Uptown", "Downtown", "All Around Town," culling the best of Mark Jacobson's work for the Village Voice and New York Magazine. The earlier stuff is essential reading for those wanting to envision what the city was like in the 1970s. "Slea......more

Goodreads review by Pete

I looked the movie with Denzel Washington, so I thought i would read the book. Well it is just one of many short articles about things or people in New York. Each story was very different, but well written and enjoyable. However, I was expecting more on the American Gangster point, so that was a bit......more