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Now in an updated and revised edition, the definitive book on the Boston Mafia, by the authors of the bestselling, Edgar Award-winning true crime thriller Black Mass.
On February 26, 1986, Mafia underboss Gennaro Angiulo was convicted of racketeering and sentenced to forty-five years in prison. In The Underboss, bestselling authors Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill tell the story of the fall of the house of Angiulo.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, aided in part by the Irish Mob's Whitey Bulger, entered the Boston Mafia's headquarters in Boston's North End early one morning in 1981 and began to compile the evidence that would lead to the entire upper tier of one of the most profitable and ruthless criminal enterprises in America.
Originally published in hardback by St. Martin's in 1989, The Underboss became a national bestseller. Information uncovered during the course of Lehr and O'Neill's Black Mass investigations adds new dimensions to the story and the authors include this new material-including Whitey Bulger's cagey manipulation of the FBI-in The Underboss's revised text and in a new preface and afterword.
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A good read, but very incomplete and questionable........2007-09-03
This book is good fact/fiction with a lot of things (especially most of the illegal shenanigans of the FBI) completely left out. We should never forget that although the goals might seem noble, the means used by this government are sometimes just as, or even more illegal than the crimes being targeted. I think using a known mass murderer like Whitey Bulger as an informant "rat" and murderous FBI "agents" would fall into the unforgiveable column. Before anyone praises the government in general or the FBI in particular, take a close look at just how they really operate to bring down the "bad guys". This book is a perfect example of this type of behavior. Is it right for the FBI to overlook the terrible crimes of one man or a few men to gather evidence on others, especially when some of those crimes are comitted by FBI "agents" who personally kill and order hits on "mobsters"? It's an ok book, but only covers things that make it read like a good guy/bad guy tale with the "bad guys" losing in the end. The "good guys" didn't really exist in this instance except in their own eyes.
Good mob book.......2007-05-07
I love mob books and this one doesn't dissappoint. Must have for the mob book lover.
One of the better Mafia books, I've read........2006-08-10
New stories about the Cosa Nostra in New England. Not the same old rehashing of the transitions of the New York families.
Interesting reading!
Very good!!.......2004-02-20
There is a man referred to obliquely in the prior reviews who has been seriously affected by all of this and essentially left for dead if you will. The man was bounced around as a child overseen by state authorities contracting to nonprofit firms employing former federal officials. One of the state officials charged with guardianship of the boy went by the same name as a female FBI agent listed in Black Mass by O'Neill and Lehr. Another woman charged with guardianship of the boy ran a hard labor camp for juveniles in trouble with the law, where breaking granite boulders with sledgehammers was the norm as was poor food,inadequate rest and mandatory employment where this woman demanding oversight of the teen's paychecks.At the hard labor camp, which was tacitly approved by state social workers and caretakers,local police and allegedly state police, the boy was forced to work 12-15 hour days, often 7-14 days without showers, little sleep and poor quality meals in addition to constant threats of violence, being locked up by state officials or state police and having all of his personal belongings confiscated-- the boy had been sent to this program simply because he had no family or other supports and had NO trouble with the law prior to being put there. The woman in charge of the program possessed the same name as a major manufacturing firm located in southern New Hampshire. This placement was overseen by the state official bearing the same name as the female FBI agent. Some 15-20 years later, this woman re-emerged in the man's life as a girlfriend of a coworker.
This same man was befriended as a boy by a couple with indirect alleged links to George Cashman and former Governor Cellucci. When this case broke, the couple disavowed the man.
Susan Kelly in her book also discussed the possibility that the early stages of the Boston Strangler murders may have been linked to gangland violence in the wars around which Flemmi emerged. A woman is said to have survived the Strangler but was never interviewed. Is it possible the Boston Strangler in turn is linked to this case ,got a woman pregnant, and the child was used as some sort of collateral for cooperation of the real Strangler?
At the same time, Jonathan Harr released his book 'A Civil Action' just after Whitey fled town. When the book came out, the man worked for Grace Co.,unaware of his past as a very young,sick and handicapped boy growing up in the chaos of an environmental tragedy in Woburn,Mass. The fervor surrounding Harr's work appeared in sync with the tepid waters of the Bulger case, and during the early phases of the hearings, Robert Redford and Sylvester Stallone appeared in a Somerville court for ambiguous reasons regarding the Bulger case. Prior to Harr's work, the man had written an autobiographical work of his own which touched upon memories of a sick child in Woburn during the emergence of the cancer epidemic.As the Bulger case broiled, Barry Mawn, native of Woburn, was assigned to the Boston FBI office in pursuit of Bulger- Mawn, Teddy Roosevelt to Cuba, Mawn to Woburn. Many of the Bulger case principals had indirect ties to Woburn and surrounding communities.
In addition to all of this, the man's medical records began disappearing, and employment became all but impossible as he was destroyed financially, just as the state trooper who stopped Whitey at Logan airport.Evidence of phone tampering emerged possibly using off premise extensions linked to major companies the man worked for which also did business with the federal government. The man's bank records and video rentals have been scrupulously monitored and broad evidence of a long term evidence gathering investigation of an individual with no history of criminal activity or breaking the law. It seems feasible the man is linked to the Bulger case and has been watched by various agencies who feel threatened by his father, a man unknown to the boy growing up or as an adult.
One thing a government oversight or other committee might investigate is the possibility that one of the principals in the Bulger case on either side had a son who was immediately flagged and watched all of his life and used as surety without his knowledge by the government or perhaps even organized crime. The committee might offer protection and encourage that individual to come forward and disclose all they know.
GOOD PLACE TO START.......2003-06-26
Interested in the New England mob? Go no further - THE UNDERBOSS is well researched and you walk away from it with a very good understanding of the events that occurred and the key players behind it. Worthy of any mafia book collection. I also recommend BLACK MASS, ALL SOULS, and STREET SOLDIER.
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Outstanding look into the Boston mob........1999-02-19
This book documents the Rise and Fall of Patriarca Family underboss Jerry Anguilo and his brothers. From start to finish it is highly enjoyable reading. I couldn't put it down, and in fact have read it twice since the first time (1988). It is even more relevant now that Steve Flemmi, Whitey Bulger's Irish mob partner, is testifying that he and Whitey were able to commit crimes (short of murder) in return for their 'informing' on the Anguilo's.
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Two SAT II practice tests with answers are presented, and reflect questions in the current actual SAT II World History exam. Extensive review material chronicles human history from the earliest known societies to the modern technology-driven world community. Subject matter is organized chronologically for easy reference and review, as well as in categories covering major events, ideas, and personages. This new edition presents an ex-panded series of recall questions and answers at the end of each unit.
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SAT II World History.......2007-07-13
Contains only two practice exams without annotated answer key. Reader is directed by pg # back to the text for any explanation of the right answer only.
How to Prepare for the SAT II World History in right way.......2007-01-10
Great help to students - all nesessary information is compacted to one small book! Very useful and helping to improve your scores!
Good, solid book.......2006-02-09
I am using it currently for an alternate text book, but when i take the sat II for world history i assume it will be a solid choice
Almost perfect choice.......2006-01-01
I am a student from Romania and I studied for the test using *only* this book (I got 750). True, the dimensions of the book seem a bit overwhelming, but at least 90% of it is material which is necessary for the test. In fact, out of the 95 questions asked, there was one which wasn't answered by the book (which is a great ratio, I say: there were 94 covered by it). I also agree that some generalizations are not subtle, but that is exactly what a world history book is supposed to contain, parallels -justified or partly forced- between peoples and their cultures.
The practice tests are indeed over the level of the real SAT II, but I disagree with the Korean critic who implied that they are wrong (and that would mean that the book is bad). Yes, there are some questions needing interpretation and maybe ones with more correct answers, but that happens in the real test too. I think it is better this way (and the mistakes aren't numerous).
I recommend it to anyone curious about world history, not only SAT II trainees. The book is just a great read.
Good book.......2005-06-21
I recently scored an 800 on the sat II world History. I took one year of honors history and began studying from this book a few days before the test. The actual exam was far easier than the tests in the Barron's book. If you are halfway intelligent all that is needed to ace this test, is a couple of days of cramming. Two of my friends, who are only B students in history, each spent 1 day studying, and both recived above a 780. This test is a joke, so unless you are retarded, serious studying is unnecessary.
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Updated to reflect the most recent SAT Subject Tests in World History, this manual presents two practice tests with answers and explanations. The manualÂ's extensive subject review has also been updated to account for important events of the past few years as they have affected cultures and countries around the world. The review chronicles human history from the earliest known societies to the rise of civilizations, a phenomenon that has developed to become todayÂ's technology-driven world community. The 25-chapter review is organized chronologically and by categories covering major events, ideas, and personages in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Additional practice and review questions are included at the end of each chapter.
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The biologist Edward O. Wilson is a rare scientist: having over a long career made signal contributions to population genetics, evolutionary biology, entomology, and ethology, he has also steeped himself in philosophy, the humanities, and the social sciences. The result of his lifelong, wide-ranging investigations is Consilience (the word means "a jumping together," in this case of the many branches of human knowledge), a wonderfully broad study that encourages scholars to bridge the many gaps that yawn between and within the cultures of science and the arts. No such gaps should exist, Wilson maintains, for the sciences, humanities, and arts have a common goal: to give understanding a purpose, to lend to us all "a conviction, far deeper than a mere working proposition, that the world is orderly and can be explained by a small number of natural laws." In making his synthetic argument, Wilson examines the ways (rightly and wrongly) in which science is done, puzzles over the postmodernist debates now sweeping academia, and proposes thought-provoking ideas about religion and human nature. He turns to the great evolutionary biologists and the scholars of the Enlightenment for case studies of science properly conducted, considers the life cycles of ants and mountain lions, and presses, again and again, for rigor and vigor to be brought to bear on our search for meaning. The time is right, he suggests, for us to understand more fully that quest for knowledge, for "Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us.... Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become." Wilson's wisdom, eloquently expressed in the pages of this grand and lively summing-up, will be of much help in that search.
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"A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." --
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One of our greatest living scientists--and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for
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The Ants--gives us a work of visionary importance that may be the crowning achievement of his career. In
Consilience (a word that originally meant "jumping together"), Edward O. Wilson renews the Enlightenment's search for a unified theory of knowledge in disciplines that range from physics to biology, the social sciences and the humanities.
Using the natural sciences as his model, Wilson forges dramatic links between fields. He explores the chemistry of the mind and the genetic bases of culture. He postulates the biological principles underlying works of art from cave-drawings to Lolita. Presenting the latest findings in prose of wonderful clarity and oratorical eloquence, and synthesizing it into a dazzling whole,
Consilience is science in the path-clearing traditions of Newton, Einstein, and Richard Feynman.
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Call in the Devil's Advocate!.......2007-09-21
This book tries to pull everything and everyone on earth into itself and, using scientific methods, organize them all - or plan their organization - into one big master survey and plan.
Dr. Wilson is a real polymath. He's brilliant, intellectually honest, and benevolent. But I didn't always get the feeling that he had really digested all the material he had used, especially the parts about philosophy and art.
I have to admit I don't usually read this type of book. I came to it via Tom Wolfe's excellent collection of essays, "Hooking Up." In the essay, "Sorry, Your Soul Just Died," Wolfe says sociobiologists (such as Wilson) contend that, not only is there no God, but also, no soul and no free will. Wolfe, though no scientist, is a wise observer of human nature, and his exploration of the ramifications of the trickle-down effect of this and other, similar scientific theories (in "Hooking Up" and another book, "I Am Charlotte Simmons") are well worth examining.
But I think both Wolfe and Wilson himself overestimate the strength of sociobiology's (and consilience's) arguments. For one thing, Wilson himself seems, excuse me, but not at all a critical thinker, at least not as far as non-hard science texts are concerned. I mean, here's a guy who, as he says in the beginning of the book, read the Bible, cover-to-cover, twice, and still believed it was literally true until he went off to college. Didn't it occur to him to ask, at least, where Cain's wife came from?
Wilson talks about how science and the arts will someday be conjoined theoretically so that, for instance, biological and neurological principles will be used to understand how a painting is analyzed. But he greatly oversimplifies the task of analyzing a painting. Many people who are not real art lovers think that we are taught art appreciation like we are taught biology: that it's a matter of memorizing why this painting is significant, why it is art, what its meaning is, as if there is an objective consensus which, once reached, is definitive. They completely leave out the individual response, or else, plot it on a bell curve. But I think most artists, writers, etc., would say art is all about subjective (and even preferably untaught) response. Off-the-curve responses are just as legitimate as typical ones. And the rules are constantly shifting, because art is based on expectation of response of the observer by the artist.
An example of Wilson's formulaic attitude is found on page 28, when he starts a section with, "All histories that live in our hearts are peopled by archetypes in mythic narratives..." as if that were established fact. I know that's a major theory nowadays - even the Disney scriptwriters use it - but I don't accept this dry cutting-and-bundling as fact. Besides, how is this proveable in the scientific sense? It would have to been done through survey, which is inherently subjective. Or somehow found in our genes, which hasn't been done yet.
In general, throughout the book, Wilson over-depends on Delphic decision-making: when faced with a difficult subject, such as art, you survey the opinions of the top experts, choose the opinion which seems most true, then treat that opinion as if it were established fact. I don't think these opinions can be relied upon: they tend to reverse every generation, and often are arrived at, not by rational debate, but by the intellectual bullying by the loudest and most politically cut-throat of the faculty members of some "top" university. Devil's advocates are in short supply in such places!
In regards to the contention that, if neurobiology can in the future completely predict an individual human's behavior, then that would prove we have no soul... well, Wilson backs off that question by saying that it'd be too much work to do this, and that no one would bother. (!) But he seems to suggest that the brain will be so well understood that science will be able to predict virtually all mental responses. (He didn't give examples, so I was left wondering: predict what? presidential elections? who should marry whom?)
And, does Wilson really have a grasp of how complex thinking is? As far as I can see, he seems to think it's sort of like mapping the Earth's oceans and all their inhabitants and all interactions - (my analogy, not his). Then you could, for instance, know where an individual whale could be found at any time. In fact, it's even more of a problem when you consider that, every time we have a chat, read a book, or look at a painting, we're interacting with another brain or, in effect, mixing our ocean with another planet's, separately evolved ocean. That whale would be awfully slippery, even if you did tag him with tracking device! Throw in self-awareness (the whale knows he's being hunted?) and the thing seems impossible.
Let me say, the book is very readable, and well worth reading for its explanation of epigenetic rules - the proof that we are hard-wired, so to speak, to, for example, find incest repulsive. These certainly will be, as Wilson states, useful in banishing the "There Is No Absolute" theory that has so weakened the productivity of intellectual thought lately. But the idea that we can discover all these rules and then build a more consistent code of ethics is, I think, naive. What if we find a gene that makes some people homosexual, and another that makes other people repulsed by homosexuals? Scientists are not Solomons.
Wilson says that a better knowledge of ourselves through the understanding of epigenetic rules will make us happier. I think it could certainly contribute. But it's far from a panacea. What about the Dostoyevskian idea that suffering is what makes us compassionate? Or Socrates' question, "What is the Good Life?") These are very vital moral questions demanding consideration.
It would be great if Wilson could get together with Tom Wolfe.
Interesting & over-rated.......2007-06-22
This is a thoughtful book: one that I would have no problem recommending to anyone interested in the philosophy of science. There are useful, sometimes original insights by this scientist & would-be philosopher. However, Wilson consistently over-reaches his mark, delves into areas of which he admits he has little understanding or interest. Wilson's constant use, or abuse, of deconstruction theories in general, and Jacques Derrida, in particular, as the straw-men to his arguments is a good example. He acknowledges he has read little of the the work, and what he has read he had little interest in - personally, I doubt very much he completely read the three Derrida books that he cites in his notes.
This becomes most obvious in the chapter "The Social Sciences", in which Wilson launches a bizarre and bitter attack on ideology, Marxists, and the worst of them all, it seems, cultural relativists. At least, these are the terms Wilson uses to describe any social science or theorizing that does not overtly recognize the pre-eminience of biology, i.e., genes. Wilson seems to be refighting academic battles of the late 60s-early 70s. Interestingly, when Wilson discusses his theory of gene-cultural coevolution, he will cite the most research research and scientists, yet when he discusses "social science" in this chapter, the most recent writers he can come up with are Franz Boas and Sigmund Freud. He doesn't mention Derrida in this chapter. It reads like he wrote this chapter as an essay in 1972. The intellectual dishonesty in this chapter is shocking when compared to the rather reasoned arguments he presents to this point.
Wilson is strongest when giving his perspectives on the historical importance of biology as it has informed the social sciences. Another strength of the book is the very detailed bibliographical information in his notes that will be useful to readers who want to follow-up on authors and studies cited by Wilson.
A sketch of the future of social science.......2007-01-01
Edward Wilson, the founder of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, is now retired. This has given him time to absorb himself in the social sciences and arts: literature, sociology, anthropology, theology, psychology and economics. What would these be like if they were informed by the concept that individual and social behaviour is constrained by an evolutionary history, whose drivers are increasingly understood?
Wilson believes they would be a great deal different, and Consilience is his attempt to imagine the future reconceptualisation of the humanities within an overarching scientific (Darwinian) framework. Does it work? Yes, mostly, if you are scientifically trained: probably not at all if you are not.
I suspect most adherents to the `Standard Social Science Model' will simply conclude that Wilson is just making endless category errors in trying to insert sociobiological constraints into the high domains of culture, ethics and theology. But sometimes you have to just come off the fence: they would be wrong in this judgement. Nevertheless, the current generation of social science academics will never accept Wilson's approach. The eventual triumph of sociobiology (if anyone will still be using the term) will be the end-point of generations of research.
Where does Wilson fall short of his own high standards within his own paradigm? I think in a couple of areas.
1. On p. 127 the philosopher David Chalmers is quoted as distinguishing the `easy' from the `hard' problems of consciousness research. Everything is hard of course, but investigating how, for example, vision works is a research programme in signal processing and pattern recognition which has been producing results for more than thirty years. This is one of Chalmers `easy' problems. A `hard' problem is the experience of agonising pain. We think, for example, we know in principle how to make a robot which could see: there are few people who believe they could sketch out an architecture for a computer which could honestly be said to experience pain (and thus be tortured). Wilson completely fails to address this issue in his glib assertion that `the hard problem is conceptually easy to solve' (p. 128). No it's not.
2. One of the shocking consequences of an evolutionary analysis of humanity is that there is no point to any person's life, or to humanity as a whole, other than the successful reproduction of genetic material - something we share with any bacterium. Even as we know this to be true, we instinctively shy away from it, looking for deep meaning here, there, anywhere ... . We never find it, but we 'know' it must be somewhere. One of the triumphs of evolutionary psychology is to identify the `instinct' for deep meaning in life with the sanctification of tribal or community life, which is a powerful asset in group cohesion, and therefore strongly selected for. The dilemma is that even though we understand scientifically why we feel this way, that understanding does nothing to address the emotional need. Somehow we need a deep belief in the meaning of life (usually expressed through some kind of religion or group values) even though scientifically we know this is simply an effective adaptation for group cohesion. Wilson concurs that there is absolutely no solution to this problem, but still, mysteriously, dabbles in `deism'.
A key dilemma which will confront future generations, not so far away, is the power to change the human genetic code. But if there is no point to human existence, there can be no guides as to which way to change it (once obvious defects have been fixed). Wilson accepts the point but limits speculation - there is a whole book's worth of thinking to do about this issue, but perhaps it's too early for it to be written.
People have been kind about Wilson's merits as a stylist. I didn't find the book a gripping read: the writing is rather discursive and lacks bite. In this it shows its own ancestry as a compilation of articles and talks. `On Human Nature' is much better, as it seems to have real emotion around it - a response to his critics - and a more polemical style.
Wilson is currently a lobbyist for conservation and against climate change. The final chapter on this topics is superb, and a welcome antidote to over-familiar `save the planet' narratives driven by inaccurate science and fuzzy emotionalism.
Don't judge this book by it's title. .......2006-12-05
This is a pretty good science book.
But the bias is clear. Wilson argues for consilience of all of academia under science, largely ignoring any contributions that the other approaches to knowledge may contribute. Wilson explains how the arts, political science, psychology, history, etc., could benefit from science. He does a pretty good job of discussing that. But he is completely blind to how these other approaches to knowledge might help science.
I read the book hopeing for some insight into how all the different ways of seeing the world might be reconciled, and instead I just find more of the same overly reductionist modernist approach, with science being the only valid perspective. What a waste!
I do, however, enjoy science, and Wilson is a pretty good science writer, so I rate this book as OK. But had he even tried to show how science can likewise benefit from the approaches used by historians or artists or novelists or sociologists or musicians - it could have been a terrific read.
To dream the impossible dream (Man of La Mancha).......2006-12-02
Edmund Wilson's dream is to find the unity of knowledge: the final unification of physics, the reconstruction of living cells, the assembly of ecosystems, the co-evolution of genes and culture, the physical basis of mind and the deep origin of ethics and religion, all that (only that?) together reducible to the laws of physics, to a very simple causality law, like the universal law of action and reaction, but more sophisticated.
Does that implicate determinism in the sense I. Berlin stated: `law(s) enabling us to predict (or reconstruct) every detail in the lives of every single human being in the future, present and past.' (Laplace's demon)? No.
As Stephen Hawking said: `Even if we do achieve a complete unified theory, we shall not be able to make detailed predictions in any but the simplest situations.'
If the situations are not the simplest one, the degrees of freedom are infinite.
There are also other aspects to be considered in the search for a solution of Wilson's Super-Herculean task.
As J. von Neumann & H.H. Goldstine said: `a mathematical formulation necessarily represents only a theory of some phase (aspects) of reality, and not reality itself.'
Laws are about something (reality) and reality is made of matter (processes). While the fundamental building stones of matter are the same in the whole universe, those stones are organized everywhere differently: electrons, atoms, molecules, plants, DNA, the human body, the brain, natural selection, demographics, philosophy, arts, political systems, moral values ...
W. van Orman Quine defends physicalism as follows in an interview with Bryan Magee: `Processes (like emotions) in physical objects (people) are always accompanied by microphysical changes. In fact, they are those changes. Neurology is ultimately the place for explanations.'
For different complexes of matter there are different laws; e.g., what is the link between quantum mechanics and natural selection? Or, between gravitation and war?
To find a very simple causality (and a correspondent law) for all the processes in the universe should be a total impossible dream. On the contrary, the future is totally open.
As a brilliant biologist examining very complex systems, E.O. Wilson seems to be searching for an oversimplification.
N.B. The Cretan paradox has been resolved by Alfred Tarski.
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ASIN: 0791419118 |
Books:
- The Way Out: A True Story of Survival
- The Winning Horseplayer: An Advanced Approach to Thoroughbred Handicapping and Betting
- Three Weeks with My Brother
- Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams -- Volume I of the Tennessee Williams Biography
- Tower of Secrets: A Real Life Spy Thriller
- Up-Tight: The Velvet Underground Story
- Who Was Johnny Appleseed? (Who Was...?)
- Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
- 100 Women Who Shaped World History (100 Series)
- A 20,000% Gain in Real Estate: A True Story About the Ups And Downs from Wall Street to Real Estate Leading Up to Phenomenal Returns
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