Cabrini,

You're welcome



BF,

no I had not heard of that book, thanks.

will add it to list of books to purchase..I may head over to the Strand bookstore and look for used copies of the books on my list.

History, even crime history, is about facts. You obviously have the interest, you should carve out some time on weekends and put together articles about the history of the Black underworld.To fill the void, just like the author of the book about Chicago.

Majority of the guys here are VERY well read about gangster/mobster history or have peripheral ties to that world , so most of the comments here are based on hard facts. If someone writes something you disagree with, you can always make a counter argument and back it up with facts.


Speaking of which......I had this article bookmarked a while ago. It's from the Journal of American History. titled..
“We Intend to Run It”: Racial Politics,
Illegal Gambling, and the Rise of
Government Lotteries in the United
States, 1960 –1985


pretty long....lot of what he suggests/concludes is REACHING...but the actual history laid out is interesting.

http://jah.oxfordjournals.org/content/101/1/71.full.pdf