American Gangster: And Other Tales of New York

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In 1970s New York, the ruthless Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing in more than a million dollars a day. At the height of his power there were so many heroin addicts buying from him on 116th Street that he claimed the Transit Authority had to change the bus routes. Lucas lived a glamorous life, hobnobbing with sport stars, musicians, and politicians, but he was also a ruthless gangster. He was notorious for using the coffins of dead GIs to smuggle heroin into the United States and before his fall, when he was sentenced to 70 years in prison, he played a major role in t.;Also by Mark Jacobson; Contents; Foreword; Never Bored: The American Gangster, the Big City, and Me; UPTOWN; 1 The American Gangster, a.k.a. The Haint of Harlem, the Frank Lucas Story; 2 The Most Comfor table Couch in New York; 3 The Wounds of Christ; 4 Zombies in Da Hood; 5 Chairman of the Money; DOWNTOWN; 8. THE MAGICIAN AND THE EXPERT; 9. CAN 49.3% OF THE PEOPLE BE CRAZY?; 10. DISINFORMATION; 11. 250 GREENWICH STREET; 6 Is This the End of Mark Zero?; 7 Ghost Shadows on the Chinatown Streets; Part Two; 8 From the Annals of Pre-gentrification: Sleaze-Out on East Fourteenth Street.