Button man

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The work Button man represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Syracuse Turkey Creek Township Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Button man

Statement of responsibility

Andrew Gross

Title variation

Button men

Creator

• Gross, Andrew, 1952-
• trueGross, Andrew, 1952-

Author

• Gross, Andrew, 1952-

Subject

• trueHistorical fiction
• Historical fiction
• trueImmigrant families
• trueJewish families
• Jewish families -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• trueJewish fiction
• New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
• trueNew York City -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
• trueOrganized crime
• Organized crime -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• true1930s -- 1930 -- 1939
• trueBetrayal
• trueBetween the Wars (1918-1939) -- 1918 -- 1939
• trueBrothers
• trueClothing industry and trade
• Clothing trade -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• trueCorruption
• Domestic fiction
• trueGangsters

Genre

• Fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueJewish fiction
• trueDomestic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"Morris, Sol, and Harry Rabishevsky grew up poor and rough on New York's Lower East Side, until the death of their father forced them to support the family. Morris, the youngest, but the most driven and pugnacious, apprentices himself at twelve to a garment manufacturer; bookish Sol drops out of accounting school; but Harry, scarred by a family tragedy, is lured under the wing of a charismatic crime figure. Morris rises through the factory until, at age twenty-one, he convinces Sol to join him in their own business. But Harry can't give up the glamour and prestige that comes from being a 'button man'--a gun man--for Louis Buchalter, now the most ruthless mobster in New York. And when Buchalter sets his sights on the unions that control the garment factories, a fatal showdown is inevitable, pitting brother against brother"--Book jacket

Writing style

• trueRichly detailed

Character

• trueAuthentic
• trueSympathetic

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3607.R654

LC item number

B86 2018

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult