Little Man was a good book. I'm thinking that in order to get those contributors that were close to Lansky the author had to work under a premise that Lansky was a misunderstood hard nosed kid that made some mistakes but was never part of a large syndicate. As I understand it Lansky 100% backed anything and everything Luciano did so he had to have been instrumental in taking out Masseria and Maranzano.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
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