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The book, which took 13 years to solicit and compile results, is in essence a guidebook for anybody who wants to be successful in whatever they do. Even just a quick reading, the authors say, can turn lives around and point their ambitions in the right direction. The job then would be to keep going and going and going. They will know they have arrived when the day someone else comes forward to ask them - just how do you become successful in life? Now, just how did this project come about? Why was it launched and how was it that so many celebrities participated? The answer to these questions is a story in itself and fully explained in the softcover, 150-page book. 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Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers, and conflicts of Benjamin \"Zuckie the Bookie\" Zuckerman, last of the independent West Side Jewish bosses, and Lenny Patrick, eventual head of the Syndicate's \"Jewish wing.\"   These two men linked the early Jewish gangsters of the neighborhoods of Maxwell Street and Lawndale to the notorious Chicago Outfit that emerged from Al Capone's criminal confederation. Focusing on the murder of Zuckerman by Patrick, Kraus introduces us to the different models of organized crime they represented, a raft of largely forgotten Jewish gangsters, and the changing nature of Chicago's political corruption. Hard-to-believe anecdotes of corrupt politicians, seasoned killers, and in-over-their-heads criminal operators spotlight the magnitude and importance of Jewish gangsters to the story of Windy City mob rule.   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As harsh as things were in their surroundings, they would have it no other way. They came soon after the West was already won, when Indian wars, gunfights, cattle drives, and range disputes were history. For them they came to make their mark in a place nobody else wanted. Most of them were prospectors, but not all. Others tended store, drove wagons, or just were up to no good most of the time. What they all had in common was that they were fixtures, permant implants in the sand. No guidebooks told them how they were to conduct themselves. So they became colorful and crusty to match the land. 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