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    And All the Saints

    By Michael Walsh

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    “A tale that feels remarkably authentic…an ode to the ambition and cruelty of Owen Madden…the last of the great Irish American gangsters.”—HARTFORD COURANT

    A life too big for facts gets the fiction it deserves.

    No crime figure influenced the course of modern American culture the way Owen Madden did. Starting as the leader of the most violent Irish street gang in Hell's Kitchen, the immigrant Madden rose to prominence as the leading brewer and bootlegger in Prohibition-era New York. In due course, he also became Mae West's lover, the founder and proprietor of the Cotton Club, the owner of five heavyweight champions of the world, the man who gave his childhood friend George Raft his big break in Hollywood, and more. Michael Walsh has created a fictionalized memoir that uses Madden's voice to trace his life from his boyhood in England to his heyday in New York and beyond.

    Winner of the 2004 American Book Award for fiction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDiversion Books
    Release dateApr 16, 2014
    ISBN9781940941448
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    Michael Walsh

    The author of seventeen novels and non-fiction books, Michael Walsh was the classical music critic and a foreign correspondent for Time Magazine, and received the 2004 American Book Awards prize for fiction for his gangster novel, And All the Saints. His books The Devil’s Pleasure Palace and The Fiery Angel examine the enemies, heroes, triumphs, and struggles of Western Civilization from the ancient past to the present, while Last Stands (2020) explores the reasons why men fight to end when all is lost. He divides his time between Connecticut and Ireland.

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