Jukebox Empire

The Mob and the Dark Side of the American Dream

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvDavid Rabinovitch

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An aspiring tycoon partners with a racketeer to build a jukebox that makes millions, then takes the fall for the largest money laundering scheme in history.Caught between the Mob and the feds in a plot to save the casinos in Havana from Castro’s revolution, Wolfe Rabin pulls the biggest money-laundering scheme in history, but his hubris leads to the conspiracy unraveling in a sensational trial. At a time when there was a jukebox in every restaurant, diner, bar, barracks, arcade, and canteen, Rabin’s trajectory from inventor to promoter to outlaw is set against the Mob’s growing infiltration of the jukebox industry. In a world of music, machines, and money, popular culture and organized crime collide in an epic drama of invention and greed. David Rabinovitch’s investigation into his own family history pieces together an epic puzzle that begins in Chicago with the invention of a jukebox and spans the casinos of Havana and the financial giants of Europe, leading to what the FBI called “the biggest bank robbery in the world.”

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-10-15
Mått156 x 232 x 20 mm
Vikt480 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781538172599
UtmärkelserWinner of Crime Writers of Canada awards 2024

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David Rabinovitch is an EMMY, Peabody, and Gemini Award-winning film maker. With a background in investigative journalism, he has written for the Toronto Globe & Mail, San Francisco Chronicle, TIME Magazine, and U.S. News & World Report. He was raised in the prairie town of Morden, Manitoba, where his uncle Wolfe Rabin’s exploits remain a subject of myth and lore. He divides his time between the Pacific Northwest and Baja California.

IllustrationsCast of CharactersPrefaceIntroductionChapter One – OriginsChapter Two – Pay to PlayChapter Three – Coin MenChapter Four – CrimebustersChapter Five – Biggest Bank Robbery in the WorldChapter Six – DollyeChapter Seven – Air ChaseChapter Eight – Front PageChapter Nine – Biggest Burglary SolvedChapter Ten – Wheels of JusticeChapter Eleven – Scheme and ArtificeChapter Twelve – Shoot the MoonConclusionAcknowledgementsBibliographyAbout the Author