Summary of Larry McShane's Chin

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Vincent the Chin Gigante was a mob boss who controlled a far-reaching business that earned tens of millions of dollars. He was a made man in the Genovese crime family, and he had a wife and five kids in a house in suburban New Jersey. He kept a mistress and three more children in a town house on the Upper East Side.
#2 The Chin controlled all numbers operations in Lower Manhattan, as well as the annual St. Anthony’s Feast in his neighborhood, where he turned piety into profit. He was the most successful Mafia boss of the last half-century, surpassing headline-making next-generation Mafiosi like Gotti.
#3 Gigante spent more time in office than four-term President Franklin Delano Roosevelt did in the White House. He became a part of pop culture, and his exploits were chronicled in big, bold, black type in the New York tabloids.
#4 The Chin was a very smart man, a very secretive man, and very cunning and ruthless. He was old-school Cosa Nostra, and he knew this thing, La Cosa Nostra, better than anyone in the country.

Sujets

• Criminals
• Biography
• Outlaws
• Autobiography

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 12 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822507517
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Larry McShane's Chin
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13 Insights from Chapter 14 Insights from Chapter 15 Insights from Chapter 16 Insights from Chapter 17 Insights from Chapter 18 Insights from Chapter 19 Insights from Chapter 20 Insights from Chapter 21 Insights from Chapter 22
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Vincent the Chin Gigante was a mob boss who controlled a far-reaching business that earned tens of millions of dollars. He was a made man in the Genovese crime family, and he had a wife and five kids in a house in suburban New Jersey. He kept a mistress and three more children in a town house on the Upper East Side.

#2

The Chin controlled all numbers operations in Lower Manhattan, as well as the annual St. Anthony’s Feast in his neighborhood, where he turned piety into profit. He was the most successful Mafia boss of the last half-century, surpassing headline-making next-generation Mafiosi like Gotti.

#3

Gigante spent more time in office than four-term President Franklin Delano Roosevelt did in the White House. He became a part of pop culture, and his exploits were chronicled in big, bold, black type in the New York tabloids.

#4

The Chin was a very smart man, a very secretive man, and very cunning and ruthless. He was old-school Cosa Nostra, and he knew this thing, La Cosa Nostra, better than anyone in the country.

#5

Gigante endured, firmly entrenched as the Howard Hughes of organized crime. He didn’t move far from the neighborhood he had spent his entire life in. His life came full circle: a final farewell in the old neighborhood just the way the Chin would have wanted it.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Vincent Gigante, the fourth of Salvatore and Yolanda Gigante’s six boys, was born in a home still shrouded in loss and grief. His parents had immigrated to New York City in the 1920s, and his father was a jeweler.

#2

The Village was a haven for artists and eccentrics. The Gigantes were raised as Roman Catholics, with Sunday Mass a regular part of their routine. They were close with their mother, who never spoke English to her sons.

#3

The Gigante family’s economic fortunes improved once Salvatore landed a better job in the jewelry trade, but it required a long commute. Each night the entire family would gather at the dinner table to discuss the day’s events in two languages.

#4

The American version of La Cosa Nostra, the Genovese family, was formed as a result of a period of unprecedented bloodshed and betrayal. The group was led by Vito Genovese, who rose to prominence during the bootlegging days of the Roaring Twenties.

#5

The Castellammarese War was over, but not before both its chief combatants were claimed as Mob fatalities. The survivors agreed that the day of a single boss claiming infallibility while lining his pockets was over. There would be five bosses, each with a vote on business and a seat on the Mafia’s ruling commission.

#6

Vincent was a kid from the block, and he was always running crap games. He was never bothered by his lack of schooling, and he turned it into a punch line. He was arrested for receiving stolen goods at age twenty-five.

#7

The teenager moved from corner to corner back then: first on Sullivan Street, then in the renowned Stillman’s Gym at 919 Eighth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. The dank boxing hangout between Fifty-Fourth and Fifty-Fifth Streets featured two rings and a permanent funk conjured from years of perspiration and minimal attention to cleanliness.

#8

The mob-connected Eboli had a short career as a manager, sending Rocky Castellani to fight Walter Cartier in 1948. He was suspended from boxing for life, and spent sixty days in jail after pleading to a reduced charge.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

Vincent Gigante was arrested in 1947 for grand larceny and auto arson. He was sentenced to probation, but the court gave him advice to wise up about the wiseguys. He was arrested again in 1951 for gambling cards. He married a neighborhood girl in 1950, and had four children with her.

#2

Vito Genovese, an ambitious Mafioso, was accused of killing one of his business partners in 1934. He fled the country, but was brought home to face the consequences. However, the man expected to sing was suddenly silenced for good.

#3

In 1957, Costello went out for dinner and drinks on the East Side of Manhattan. He was joined by Philip Kennedy, a former semipro baseball player now reinvented as an actor and modeling agency manager. The two dined in Chandler’s Restaurant at 49 West Forty-Ninth Street before heading to meet Costello’s wife and National Enquirer publisher Generoso Pope at L’Aiglon on East Fifty-Fifth Street.

#4

The two men hailed a cab outside Monsignore around 10:40 P. M. and headed to Costello’s residence at the Majestic, just across the street from both Central Park and the Dakota. The Chin blew past the building’s doorman in hot pursuit, and when he approached Costello, he shot him point-blank range.

#5

The attempt on Costello’s life was a sensation from coast to coast, and the shooter was in the wind. The New York Police Department launched a full-court press to track down the would-be killer, with more than sixty detectives assigned to the investigation.

#6

The police put the squeeze on the Gigante family, particularly Vincent’s pretty young wife and his two reputedly mobbed-up brothers, Mario and Ralph. Olympia stood by her missing husband.