Jackass Brandy

Jackass Brandy by Buti, Bruno. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780964896017.

Author inscribed first edition hardcover with dust jacket, by Bruno Buti, previously author of Rumbling Wine Barrels. ISBN 0-9648960-1-X. "A Tale of Legendary Men--Bootleggers that Defied the Unjust Laws of Prohibition-- the Robin Hoods of the Roaring Twenties"--from the bottom of the front jacket. Think you know California Wine Country? Not if you havent run across these true stories of prohibition in San Francisco, replete with bootleggers, cops, prostitutes, gangsters, grape and gunshot, in Rumbling Wine Barrels and its companion volume, Jackass Brandy. Author Bruno Buti spent his childhood observing some of these events firsthand, and collected the tales of others from family and friends. His free-wheeling informal style makes the books easy to read. In Rumbling Wine Barrels, Buti has combined the patchwork of family history into a lively account of the running battles between "wine hijackers" and Butis father, federal agents, Sicilian mobsters from New Jersey, assorted cops and "soiled doves", and a perfectly twisted scheme to make money and mayhem.