The Mad Ones: Crazy Joe Gallo and the Revolution at the Edge of the Underworld
by Tom Folsom
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Author: Tom FolsomEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-05-05
ISBN: 1602860815
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Weinstein Books
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- ISBN13: 9781602860810
- Condition: New
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Book Review: A CLASSIC TALE FROM THE MEAN STREETS ABOUT A HERO OF THE COUNTERCULTURE
Summary: 5 Stars
The title comes from the Jack Kerouac quote: "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn." And that's exactly how Joey Gallo lived his life.
The Mad Ones is the story of Joey and his brothers--Larry and Albert "Kid Blast" Gallo--a family of young gangsters whose revolution against New York City's Cosa Nostra in the 1960s was fueled by Joey Gallo's immersion into the hip Greenwich Village Beat scene. Bob Dylan (who wrote "Joey" about him), Bobby Kennedy, Pete Hamill, Gay Talese, Jimmy Breslin, Mario Puzo, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Orbach--an incredible roster of people spun through Joey Gallo's life before he was gunned down in Little Italy in '72. Gay Talese points out that "He almost became one of the beautiful people."
The Mad Ones delves into territory unexpected in a "mob book." Much of the story deals with Joey's having explored the artistic and cultural worlds of the turbulent sixties.
Sure, it's a lot like "Goodfellas" and "Mean Streets," but in spirit it also shares a lot with Godard's French classic "Band of Outsiders," and the Gallo boys more closley resemble Depression-era gangsters like Pretty Boy Floyd and John Dillinger than they do Don Corleone.
The Mad Ones also captures a grittier era of New York City (specifically downtown and in Brooklyn) that is long, long gone.
Terrific story all around.
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