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Free Excerpt From The Book (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) There are some men who cannot be bound by laws, cannot be restrained by authority. This is the story of three such men.Enacted to shut a moral door in early twentieth-century America, the Eighteenth Amendment, ratified in 1919 and effective on January 16, 1920, actually opened a Pandora’s Box. The liquor business thrived during Prohibition – and Jewish gangsters were right in the thick of it. They manufactured, distributed and sold black market booze to a thirsty American public… and they made millions doing it. Some of the wealthiest and most successful liquor companies in the world today had their humble beginnings as gangland businesses in the Roaring Twenties. Three Wise Men is the story of three young Jewish mobsters and the women who loved them. In a tale covering nearly a quarter of a century, we follow this determined gang as they build an empire on illegal booze, change the entire direction of the liquor industry and finally – decades later – become some of the nation’s most respected and successful citizens. Prohibition made these men wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. After repeal of the Volstead Act in 1933, respectability became their goal. Already on equal financial footing with the leading families of the country, they wanted equal social footing as well – but they wanted to get it without giving up the profits and power they held from gambling, labor unions, and the rest of their activities, legal and otherwise. The gradual changes in these men, and the deepening interrelationships of their families, blurs the distinctions between right and wrong, and just might bring the reader to a place he or she thought they would never be – a place where empathy for a cold-hearted mobster seems natural, and quite obvious. Join us as we go back in time when the sons of honest families turned to crime… and changed their country forever.
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| About the Author | |
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Robert L. Fenton, President of Fenton Entertainment Group, Inc., in Farmington Hills, MI, is a Distinguished Entertainment Attorney and a Literary Agent. Fenton is also a Bestselling Author, and was a Hollywood Film Producer for several years at both Universal Studios and 20th Century Fox. |
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