Gross, Andrew
Button Man Andrew Gross - First edition - New York Minotaur Books 2018 - 371 pages 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-371).
A stirring story of a Jewish family brought together in the dawn of the women's garment business and torn apart by the birth of organized crime in New York City in the 1930s. 1930s, New York's Lower East Side. At the death of their father, Morris Rabishevsky, twelve, apprenticed himself to a garment cutter in a clothing factory; Sol headed to accounting school; but Harry fell in with a gang of thugs. Morris steadily climbs through the ranks at the factory, goes out on his own, and convinces Sol to come work with him. But Harry can't be lured away from the power and the money that come from his association with Louis Buchalter, the most ruthless mobster in New York. When Buchalter sets his sights on the unions that staff the garment makers' factories, he pits brother against brother. -- adapted from jacket.
9781250179982 125017998X
2018013607
1900-1999
Jewish criminals--New York (State)--New York--Fiction
Jewish families--New York (State)--New York--Fiction
Organized crime--New York (State)--New York--Fiction
Clothing trade--New York (State)--New York--Fiction
Family life--Fiction
Fiction--Thrillers--Historical
Fiction--Mystery & Detective--Historical
Fiction--Thrillers--Crime
New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction
New York (N.Y.)--History--20th century--Fiction
PS3607.R654 / B86 2018
Gro 2
Button Man Andrew Gross - First edition - New York Minotaur Books 2018 - 371 pages 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-371).
A stirring story of a Jewish family brought together in the dawn of the women's garment business and torn apart by the birth of organized crime in New York City in the 1930s. 1930s, New York's Lower East Side. At the death of their father, Morris Rabishevsky, twelve, apprenticed himself to a garment cutter in a clothing factory; Sol headed to accounting school; but Harry fell in with a gang of thugs. Morris steadily climbs through the ranks at the factory, goes out on his own, and convinces Sol to come work with him. But Harry can't be lured away from the power and the money that come from his association with Louis Buchalter, the most ruthless mobster in New York. When Buchalter sets his sights on the unions that staff the garment makers' factories, he pits brother against brother. -- adapted from jacket.
9781250179982 125017998X
2018013607
1900-1999
Jewish criminals--New York (State)--New York--Fiction
Jewish families--New York (State)--New York--Fiction
Organized crime--New York (State)--New York--Fiction
Clothing trade--New York (State)--New York--Fiction
Family life--Fiction
Fiction--Thrillers--Historical
Fiction--Mystery & Detective--Historical
Fiction--Thrillers--Crime
New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction
New York (N.Y.)--History--20th century--Fiction
PS3607.R654 / B86 2018
Gro 2