Mickey Cohen, Tere Tereba
Mickey Cohen, Tere Tereba
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Mickey Cohen
The Life and Crimes of L.A.'s Notorious Mobster

Author: Tere Tereba

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 9 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/10/2012


Synopsis

Mickey Cohen: The Life and Times of L.A.'s Notorious Mobster is a seductive, premium-octane blend of true crime and Hollywood lore that spins around a wildly eccentric mob boss. When Bugsy Siegel was executed, ruthless Mickey Cohen, a former pro boxer and cunning provocateur, took over criminal activity in L.A., a move sanctioned by Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello. Attaining immense power and dominance, from the late 1940s until 1976 the semi-literate Angeleno became an above-the-fold newspaper name, accumulating a remarkable count of more than 1,000 front pages in Los Angeles papers alone, and hundreds of articles in national and international periodicals.

Cohen's story and the history of mid-century L.A. are inextricably intertwined, and author Tere Tereba delivers tales full of high life, high drama, and highly placed politicians, among them RFK and Richard Nixon, as well as revelations about countless icons, including Shirley Temple, Lana Turner, Frank Sinatra, and the Reverend Billy Graham. Meticulously researched, this rich tapestry presents a panoramic look at the Los Angeles underworld and immerses the listener in a dark, decadent, and dangerous side of Hollywood that has not been fully revealed until now.


About Tere Tereba

Tere Tereba is an award-winning fashion designer and journalist. She has written for Interview and Italian Vogue and her account of Jim Morrison in Paris was selected by The Doors to appear in their book, The Doors: An Illustrated History. She lives in Los Angeles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kayla on February 14, 2014

This is simply not good history. The author forgets that one does not write a book unless there is something new to say on the subject, and the few things that the author did discover new about the life of Mickey Cohen, are boasted about as exclusive, like something a cheap newspaper would do. Actua......more

Goodreads review by Marley on February 11, 2013

Mickey Cohen was my first mobster. I was a rather strange child, and one of my early memories is one of the attempted hits on him, probably in 1949. By 1952, at the age of 7 I'd move up a bit and was advising my Republican parents that Richard Nixon was not trustworthy. But that's another story. I wa......more

Goodreads review by Sara on March 28, 2015

I had to read this after I saw the movie Gangster Squad and my mom said "You've never heard of Mickey Cohen??" Um, no. . . . Well, now I know. I also learned that the movie Gangster Squad is more Hollywood sensationalism than an accurate bio of Mickey Cohen. I learned a lot reading this book. There we......more