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Copy Link >> https://getpdf.readbooks.link/yupu/B07QM9Q95S “Rosen artfully blends fascinating tales of the rise of the National Football League with the bloody demise of the mob.” —Bill Geist, New York Times–bestselling authorIn 1935, as eighteen-year-old Sid Luckman made headlines across New York City for his high school football exploits at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, his father, Meyer Luckman, was making headlines for the gangland murder of his own brother-in-la
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“Rosen artfully blends fascinating tales of the rise of the National Football League with the bloody demise of the mob.” —Bill Geist, New York Times–bestselling authorIn 1935, as eighteen-year-old Sid Luckman made headlines across New York City for his high school football exploits at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, his father, Meyer Luckman, was making headlines for the gangland murder of his own brother-in-la
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https://getpdf.readbooks.link/yupu/B07QM9Q95S “Roen
artfully blends fascinating tales of the rise of the National
Football League with the bloody demise of the
mob.”—Bil Geist, New York
Times–betselling authorIn 1935, as eighteen-year-old
Sid Luckman made headlines across New York City for his
high school football exploits at Erasmus Hall High School in
Brooklyn, his father, Meyer Luckman, was making headlines
for the gangland murder of his own brother-in-law. Amazingly,
when Sid became a star at Columbia and a Hall of Fame NFL
quarterback in Chicago, all of it while Meyer Luckman served
twenty-years-to-life in Sing Sing Prison, the connection
between sports celebrity son and mobster father was
studiously ignored by the press and ultimately overlooked for
eight decades.Tough Luck traces two simultaneous historical
developments through a single immigrant family in
Depression-era New York: the rise of the National Football
League led by the dynastic Chicago Bears and the
demise—trggered by Meyer Luckman’crime and
initial coverup—ofthe Brooklyn labor rackets and Louis
Lepke’infamous organization Murder, Inc. Filled with
colorful characters, it memorably evokes an era of vicious
Brooklyn mobsters and undefeated Monsters of the Midway, a
time when the media kept their mouths shut and the softspoken
son of a murderer could become a beloved legend with
a hidden past.“Rearkable... Artfully organized and
deeply researched... This [secret] is finally being told,
respectfully and stylishly.”—Chcago
Tribune“Ths is a great and beautifully written untold
story.”—Ga Talese, New York
Times–betselling author“Afascinating story of the
NFL, its growth, and one of its star players. And it is more than
just a sports biography.”—Ilinois Times