Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster (Audiobook)

from ozzie65

I may as well quit denying that I am not a gangster book groupie - looking through my library I just have so many different books on various aspects of the underworld that I have to throw my hands up and say I am all in when it comes to a good non-fiction book about the underworld. Paddy Whacked ...

from Whiskey3pa

Well written and fascinating. Highly recomended.

from schwager

This book is an interesting conglomeration of the history of Irish American gangsterism in the United States. English (such an unfortunate name for an author writing on Irish Americans) presents a quirky argument that the root of the Irish American gangster lies in the clan system of ancient Irel...

from lriley

A kind of history of the Irish American gangster in the United States going all the way back in time to the 1850's and the Five Points district in Manhattan--and forward to the 1980's and 90's and Hell's Kitchen own Westies and Boston's Winter Hill gang led by the FBI supported Whitey Bulger. Eng...

from ozzie65

I may as well quit denying that I am not a gangster book groupie - looking through my library I just have so many different books on various aspects of the underworld that I have to throw my hands up and say I am all in when it comes to a good non-fiction book about the underworld. Paddy Whacked ...