Lord High Executioner
The Legendary Mafia Boss Albert Anastasia
Published on 26. May 2020
320 pages
978-0-8065-4015-3 (ISBN)
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The bloodsoaked saga of the Murder, Inc. legend who helped create the modern American Mafia-one body at a time-featuring shocking eyewitness accounts . . .
Umberto "Albert" Anastasia was born in Italy at the turn of the century. Five decades later, he would be gunned down in a barber shop in New York City. What happened in the years in between-and why every crime family had reason to want him dead-is one of the most brutal and fascinating stories in the history of American organized crime. This in-depth account of the man who became one of the most powerful and homicidal crime bosses of the twentieth century from Mafia insider and co-author Frank Dimatteo is the first full-length book to chronicle Anastasia's bloody rise from fresh-off-the-boat immigrant to founder of the notorious killer's club Murder, Inc.-featuring never-before-told accounts from those who feared him most . . .
They called him "The One Man Army." "Mad Hatter." "Lord High Executioner." Albert Anastasia came to America mean and became a prolific killer. His merciless assassination of Mafia godfather Vincent Mangano is recounted here in chilling first-hand detail. He set the record: the first man in the history of American justice to be charged with four separate murders-and walk free after each one. But in the end, he was the last obstacle in rival Mafia hoodlum Vito Genovese's dream of becoming the boss of bosses-and paid the ultimate price . . .
Umberto "Albert" Anastasia was born in Italy at the turn of the century. Five decades later, he would be gunned down in a barber shop in New York City. What happened in the years in between-and why every crime family had reason to want him dead-is one of the most brutal and fascinating stories in the history of American organized crime. This in-depth account of the man who became one of the most powerful and homicidal crime bosses of the twentieth century from Mafia insider and co-author Frank Dimatteo is the first full-length book to chronicle Anastasia's bloody rise from fresh-off-the-boat immigrant to founder of the notorious killer's club Murder, Inc.-featuring never-before-told accounts from those who feared him most . . .
They called him "The One Man Army." "Mad Hatter." "Lord High Executioner." Albert Anastasia came to America mean and became a prolific killer. His merciless assassination of Mafia godfather Vincent Mangano is recounted here in chilling first-hand detail. He set the record: the first man in the history of American justice to be charged with four separate murders-and walk free after each one. But in the end, he was the last obstacle in rival Mafia hoodlum Vito Genovese's dream of becoming the boss of bosses-and paid the ultimate price . . .
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Frank DiMatteo is a lifelong Brooklynite, Mafia "survivor," and publisher of Mob Candy magazine. He is the author of Mob Candy's Brooklyn Gangsters and Manhattan Gangsters, and the coauthor, along with Michael Benson, of more than half a dozen nonfiction books on the history of organized crime, including his acclaimed memoir, The President Street Boys: Growing Up Mafia. He is a retired gangster and the son of a Mob hitman, with past interviews and appearances that include the New York Post, VICE, Business Insider, Late Night with Johnny P, and One on One with Steve Adubato. He was also an expert source in the HISTORY TV documentary American Godfathers: The Five Families.
Content
- Intro
- Also by
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION - Understanding Anastasia
- ONE - The Land That Dances
- TWO - S.S. Sardegna
- THREE - First Kill
- FOUR - The Degraw Street Murders
- FIVE - A Growing Body Count
- SIX - Waiter, There's a Body in My Linguini
- SEVEN - Blood in the Streets in the City of Churches
- EIGHT - Luciano Takes Charge
- NINE - Five Families, One Murder Inc.
- TEN - A Thriving Business
- ELEVEN - Death of Dutch Schultz
- TWELVE - Murder of Joseph Rosen
- THIRTEEN - Morris Diamond Is Iced
- FOURTEEN - How the Twist Turns
- FIFTEEN - Phil and Buggsy on Trial
- SIXTEEN - The Perforation of Peter Panto
- SEVENTEEN - The Sette Is Kaput
- EIGHTEEN - The Canary Could Sing, but He Couldn't Fly
- NINETEEN - Burning of the Normandie
- TWENTY - The War Effort
- TWENTY-ONE - Death of the Mangano Brothers
- TWENTY-TWO - The Era of Government Committees
- TWENTY-THREE - The Savage Death of William Moretti
- TWENTY-FOUR - "I Hate Squealers!"
- TWENTY-FIVE - Bang Bang
- TWENTY-SIX - The Dire Wolf
- TWENTY-SEVEN - Albert's Tax Evasion Case and the Murders of the Macri Brothers
- TWENTY-EIGHT - The Ferris Get No Mercy
- TWENTY-NINE - One Solid in Milan
- THIRTY - Wacky Gets Whacked
- THIRTY-ONE - Costello Gets Creased
- THIRTY-TWO - Albert's Last Shave
- THIRTY-THREE - Funeral of Albert Anastasia
- THIRTY-FOUR - The Men Who Killed Anastasia
- THIRTY-FIVE - Aftermath
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- TEAER CHAPTER
