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Jukebox Empire
The Mob and the Dark Side of the American Dream|
24,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Format: | |
| Veröffentl.: | 08.05.2023 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781538172605 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 248 |
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Beschreibungen
<p><span>An aspiring tycoon partners with a racketeer to build a jukebox that makes millions, then takes the fall for the largest money laundering scheme in history.</span></p>
<p><span>Caught between the Mob and the feds in a plot to save the casinos in Havana from Castro’s revolution, Wolfe Rabin pulls the biggest money-laundering scheme in history, but his hubris leads to the conspiracy unraveling in a sensational trial. </span><span>At a time when there was a jukebox in every restaurant, diner, bar, barracks, arcade, and canteen, </span><span>Rabin’s trajectory from inventor to promoter to outlaw is set against the Mob’s growing infiltration of the jukebox industry. In a world of music, machines, and money, popular culture and organized crime collide in an epic drama of invention and greed. David </span><span>Rabinovitch’s investigation into his own family history pieces together an epic puzzle that begins in Chicago with the invention of a jukebox and spans the casinos of Havana and the financial giants of Europe, leading to what the FBI called “the biggest bank robbery in the world.”</span></p>
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<p><span>Caught between the Mob and the feds in a plot to save the casinos in Havana from Castro’s revolution, Wolfe Rabin pulls the biggest money-laundering scheme in history, but his hubris leads to the conspiracy unraveling in a sensational trial. </span><span>At a time when there was a jukebox in every restaurant, diner, bar, barracks, arcade, and canteen, </span><span>Rabin’s trajectory from inventor to promoter to outlaw is set against the Mob’s growing infiltration of the jukebox industry. In a world of music, machines, and money, popular culture and organized crime collide in an epic drama of invention and greed. David </span><span>Rabinovitch’s investigation into his own family history pieces together an epic puzzle that begins in Chicago with the invention of a jukebox and spans the casinos of Havana and the financial giants of Europe, leading to what the FBI called “the biggest bank robbery in the world.”</span></p>
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<p><span>From the biggest bank robbery in the world to the largest money laundering scheme in history, </span><span>Jukebox Empire </span><span>follows the many twists and turns in one man’s pursuit of the American dream.</span></p>
<p><span>Illustrations</span></p>
<p><span>Cast of Characters</span></p>
<p><span>Preface</span></p>
<p><span>Introduction</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter One – Origins</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter Two – Pay to Play</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter Three – Coin Men</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter Four – Crimebusters</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter Five – Biggest Bank Robbery in the World</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter Six – Dollye</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter Seven – Air Chase</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter Eight – Front Page</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter Nine – Biggest Burglary Solved</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter Ten – Wheels of Justice</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter Eleven – Scheme and Artifice</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter Twelve – Shoot the Moon</span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion</span></p>
<p><span>Acknowledgements</span></p>
<p><span>Bibliography</span></p>
<p><span>About the Author</span></p>
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<p><span>Cast of Characters</span></p>
<p><span>Preface</span></p>
<p><span>Introduction</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter One – Origins</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter Two – Pay to Play</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter Three – Coin Men</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter Four – Crimebusters</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter Five – Biggest Bank Robbery in the World</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter Six – Dollye</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter Seven – Air Chase</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter Eight – Front Page</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter Nine – Biggest Burglary Solved</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter Ten – Wheels of Justice</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter Eleven – Scheme and Artifice</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter Twelve – Shoot the Moon</span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion</span></p>
<p><span>Acknowledgements</span></p>
<p><span>Bibliography</span></p>
<p><span>About the Author</span></p>
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<p><span>An aspiring tycoon partners with a racketeer to build a jukebox that makes millions, then takes the fall for the largest money laundering scheme in history.</span></p>
<p><a></a><span>David Rabinovitch </span><span>is an EMMY, Peabody, and Gemini Award-winning film maker. With a background in investigative journalism, he has written for the Toronto Globe & Mail, San Francisco Chronicle, TIME Magazine, and U.S. News & World Report. He was raised in the prairie town of Morden, Manitoba, where his uncle Wolfe Rabin’s exploits remain a subject of myth and lore. He divides his time between the Pacific Northwest and Baja California. </span></p>
<p><span>Author's website: www.davidrabinovitch.co</span><a></a><span>m</span></p>
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