cover image Blood and Power: Organized Crime in 20th-Century America

Blood and Power: Organized Crime in 20th-Century America

Stephen Fox. Penguin Books, $24 (512pp) ISBN 978-0-14-013438-4

``In a well-researched, engrossing, often-startling chronicle . . . the author alleges underworld involvement by numerous well-known figures, past and present, among them entertainers (Milton Berle), journalists (Walter Winchell) . . . and several U.S. presidents (FDR, Truman, JFK),'' said PW . Photos. 50,000 first printing. (Aug.)