Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America's Hidden Power Brokers
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The widely praised and meticulously researched book that reveals the story of how for fifty years superlawyer Sidney Korshak and the nefarious Chicago Outfit pulled the strings of American business politics and society. Investigative reporter Gus Russo returns with his most explosive book yet the remarkable story of the "Supermob"a cadre of men who over the course of decades secretly influenced nearly every aspect of American society. Presenting startling never-before-seen revelations about such famous members as Jules Stein Joe Glaser Ronald Reagan Lew Wasserman and John Jacob Factoras well as infamous low-profile membersRusso pulls the lid off of a half-century of criminal infiltration into American business politics and society. At the heart of it all is Sidney "The Fixer" Korshak who from the 1940s until his death in the 1990s was not only the most powerful lawyer in the world according to the FBI but the enigmatic player behind countless twentieth century power mergers political deals and organized crime chicaneries.
