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Joe Gallo And The Fracturing Of Authority: When Soldiers Rebel and the Family is at War
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On the morning of April 7, 1972, Joe Gallo was shot dead in a Little Italy restaurant on his forty-third birthday. He had walked in without a bodyguard worth the name, ordered shellfish with his wife and stepdaughter, and let a man across the room recognize him. Four gunmen arrived forty minutes later. Nobody was ever charged.
By then, Gallo had already lived several lives. He had allegedly killed one of the most powerful mob bosses in America in a midtown barbershop. He had kidnapped four senior members of his own crime family to force a renegotiation with a boss who was cheating him - and watched that boss agree to terms, recover his men, and then try to have Gallo strangled. He had served nearly a decade in state prison, where he read Camus and Kafka and Machiavelli, painted watercolors in the yard, debated existentialism through cell block doors with a Harlem drug trafficker, and emerged as something his Brooklyn upbringing had never suggested he might become: an intellectual.
After prison, he moved through Greenwich Village dinner parties. He charmed Neil Simon and Ben Gazzara and Pete Hamill. Bob Dylan eventually wrote an eleven-minute ballad about his death.
Joe Gallo and the Fracturing of Authority is not a celebration. It is a close, documented examination of what actually happened - the kidnapping, the war, the prison transformation, the murder - and of the deeper institutional question that Gallo's life forces open: what does a criminal hierarchy do when one of its soldiers decides the rules no longer apply, and what happens to the hierarchy when it cannot cleanly answer?
The record is more interesting than the legend. It always was.
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