Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob,Used

Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob,Used

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A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021Family secrets emerge as a bestselling author dives into the history of the mob in smalltown America.Bestselling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a smalltown mob boss but maintained an unspoken family vow of silence. Then an elderly relative prodded: Youre a writerwhat are you gonna do about the story?Smalltime is a mob story straight out of central castingbut with a difference, for the smalltown mob, which stretched from Schenectady to Fresno, is a mostly unknown world. The location is the brawny postwar factory town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The setting is City Cigar, a storefront next to City Hall, behind which Russ and his brotherinlaw, Little Joe, operate a gambling empire and effectively run the town.Smalltime is a riveting American immigrant story that travels back to Risorgimento Sicily, to the ancient, dusty, hilltown home of Antonino Sciotto, the authors greatgrandfather, who leaves his wife and children in grinding poverty for a new lifeand wifein a Pennsylvania mining town. Its a tale of Italian Americans living in squalor and prejudice, and of the rise of Russ, who, like thousands of other young men, created a copy of the American establishment that excluded him. Smalltime draws an intimate portrait of a mobster and his wife, sudden riches, and the toll a lawless life takes on one family.But Smalltime is something more. The author enlists his ailing fatherTony, the mobsters sonas his partner in the search for their troubled patriarch. As secrets are revealed and Tonys health deteriorates, the book become an urgent and intimate exploration of three generations of the American immigrant experience. Moving, wryly funny, and richly detailed, Smalltime is an irresistible memoir by a masterful writer of historical narrative. 8 blackandwhite illustrations

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