Chapter 4
U.S. Jewish Criminals, Detectives, Spies, et al – NON-FICTION: History, Biography, Analysis
Note: This Bibliography includes (alphabetically by author, below) synopses of the following key texts, in alphabetical order:
Michael Alexander, Jazz Age Jews
Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York
Michael Benson, Gangsters vs. Nazis
Stephen Birmingham, The Rest of Us
Rich Cohen, Tough Jews
Albert Fried, The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America
Jenna Weissman Joselit, Our Gang
Robert Rockaway, But He Was Good To His Mother
Steven J. Ross, (Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America)
Laurence Roth, Inspecting Jews
Rachel Rubin, Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature
Dan Slater, The Incorruptibles
Alex Tepperman, Vicious Bastards and Complete Bores
- 4.1Early Jewish Gangsters7 topics
- 4.2General Reference: Non-fiction on Jews and Crime in the U.S., including synopses of the following works:13 topics
- 4.3Recent American Jewish Malefactors and Jewish Reactions11 topics
- 4.4American Jews and Law-Enforcement9 topics
- 4.5U.S. Jewish Prosecutors
- 4.6Roy Cohn
- 4.7Prominent U.S. Jewish Criminal Defense Lawyers
- 4.8Prominent U.S. Jewish Judges
- 4.9The Jewish Defense League (JDL)