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    Whitey: The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss
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    Whitey: The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss
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    Whitey: The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss

    Written by Gerard O'Neill and Dick Lehr

    Narrated by John Rubinstein

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    From the bestselling authors of Black Mass comes the definitive biography of Whitey Bulger, the most brutal and sadistic crime boss since Al Capone.

    Drawing on a trove of sealed files and previously classified material, Whitey digs deep into the mind of James J. "Whitey" Bulger, the crime boss and killer who brought the FBI to its knees. He is an American original --a psychopath who fostered a following with a frightening mix of terror, deadly intimidation and the deft touch of a politician who often helped a family in need meet their monthly rent. But the history shows that despite the early false myths portraying him as a Robin Hood figure, Whitey was a supreme narcissist, and everything--every interaction with family and his politician brother Bill Bulger, with underworld cohorts, with law enforcement, with his South Boston neighbors, and with his victims--was always about him. In an Irish-American neighborhood where loyalty has always been rule one, the Bulger brand was loyalty to oneself.

    Whitey deconstructs Bulger's insatiable hunger for power and control. Building on their years of reporting and uncovering new Bulger family records, letters and prison files, Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill examine and reveal the factors and forces that created the monster. It's a deeply rendered portrait of evil that spans nearly a century, taking Whitey from the streets of his boyhood Southie in the 1940s to his cell in Alcatraz in the 1950s to his cunning, corrupt pact with the FBI in the 1970s and, finally, to Santa Monica, California where for fifteen years he was hiding in plain sight as one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted. In a lifetime of crime and murder that ended with his arrest in June 2011, Whitey Bulger became one of the most powerful and deadly crime bosses of the twentieth century. This is his story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 19, 2013
    ISBN9780385366571
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    Whitey: The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss
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    Gerard O'Neill

    Gerard O'Neill is a novelist who lives with his family in Sydney, Australia, but originally hails from the deep south of New Zealand. He worked too long in the suffocating confines of the academy, which explains his need to escape to the great outdoors as often as possible. He speaks English reasonably well, and Japanese, but the last is still a work in progress. He enjoys Kendo. He also likes to pick up a good book, particularly if it's science fiction, and reads a wide range of books, including non-fiction. Gerard likes to keep up with the latest developments in science and technology. He reads history, and currently almost anything about the Russian revolution will grab his attention. https://www.gerardoneillbooks.com/ Also found here: https://www.facebook.com/GerardONeill.Books/

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    • 5/5
      What a great listen!! Well researched and great narration! It’s a long listen (over 17 hours) and parts of it, for me, were difficult to follow, in good part because there were so many characters being introduced at such a rapid fire pace, I kept having to go back and re-listen to whole chapters in order to keep everything straight! This, if there were any criticism to be had, would be it.

      I also thought the earlier part of the book, where the authors go into an extensive background of Whitey’s ancestry, was pretty boring, and I kind of tuned out a lot of that, although I can see how this background could be kind of pertinent to the overall story.

      However, all my frustrations aside, this is a fascinating story about a very complex man, a charming, charismatic, manipulative, brilliant and bona fide psychopath, which had me actually rooting for him at times, while at other times just feeling absolutely sick to my stomach.

      In summary, A GREAT LISTEN!!