The untold story of the legendary mobster with nuclear-powered
charm, who started out in Chicago speakeasies, controlled Golden
Age Hollywood, ran the Las Vegas strip and infiltrated the JFK-era
White House as a hired killer.
Lee Server is the author of the best-selling and critically acclaimed biographies Robert Mitchum- Baby, I Don't Care (Faber) and Ava Gardner- Love is Nothing (Bloomsbury). Robert Mitchum was named a Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times, 'The film biography of the year' by the Sunday Times and Book of the Year by Uncut magazine. A graduate of New York University film school, Server has worked as a screenwriter, documentary maker and journalist.
The incredible life of Handsome Johnny, a gangster worthy of the
movies....Server's biography not only provides a window into
Rosselli's life but also contextualizes a time when Hollywood,
politics and organized crime were inextricably linked.
*The Washington Post*
Written in the snappy style of a hardboiled detective novel...an
in-depth history of the growth, development and eventual decline of
organized crime in America.
*The Economist*
A definitive rags-to-riches biography... Paced like a fine piece of
fiction, this is a handsomely written chronicle of an interesting
mob character.
*Kirkus Reviews*
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