Atlantic city Quote by Robert Lacey

Everybody owned stock in the Capone mob; in a way, he was a public benefactor. I remember one time when he arrived at his…

— Saul Alinsky

“So Meyer Lansky was Hyman Roth? Was Marlon Brando Frank Costello? The confusion was compounded when quite serious newspapers started incorporating Godfather comparisons into…

— Robert Lacey

“Compared by one commentator to “the death rattle of a seagull,” Costello’s voice was later said to have provided the model for Marlon Brando’s…

— Robert Lacey

“In Atlantic City about to get my crunk on. I don't know what that means.”

— Blake Lewis

“I actually got so drunk I wrapped myself around the toilet bowl of the Scollay Square Cafe and got pissed and puked on all…

— Jack Kerouac

I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long……

— Smedley Butler

“In New York—the New York of her own time, at least—they would have been objects of scorn and anger, the butt of every idiot’s…

— Stephen King

“One night, someone I hadn’t seen before, no doubt one of the club’s civilian members who liked the location and thought that rubbing elbows…

— Barry Eisler

“A couple of weeks later Russell told me that Joey Glimco was Giuseppe Primavera. He had been with Al Capone and was very big…

— Charles Brandt

“You have got to be good in that town if you want to beat the crowd.' So says young John on his first sight…

— Steven Jay Schneider

“The really polished New Yorker, as editor Walter Whitman noted in an 1856 “Advice to Strangers” piece, was one who could coolly respond to…

— Mike Wallace