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Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family

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Popular Features. Home Learning. Wise Guy. Description Nicholas Pileggi's vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill--the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that "to be a wiseguy was to own the world," who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster's life--has been hailed as "the best book ever written on organized crime" Cosmopolitan.

This is the true-crime bestseller that was the basis for Martin Scorsese's film masterpiece GoodFellas, which brought to life the violence, the excess, the families, the wives and girlfriends, the drugs, the payoffs, the paybacks, the jail time, and the Feds Read it and experience the secret life inside the mob--from one who's lived it.

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By Nicholas Pileggi. IN an year-old of Irish-Sicilian parentage walked across the street from where he lived in Brooklyn into a dingy, mob-run cab company looking for after-school work. His energy, intelligence and what seems to have been a general likableness quickly started him on his way to becoming the kind of tough thief New Yorkers euphemistically call a ''wise guy. He eventually became one of a group who, in his words, ''walked in a room and the place stopped. Everyone knew who we were, and we were treated like movie stars with muscle.

Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family is a non-fiction book by crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi that chronicles the life of Henry Hill ; a mafia mobster who turned informant. The book is the basis for the Academy Award -winning film Goodfellas directed by Martin Scorsese. Eventually Hill was "promoted" to selling stolen cigarettes for Vario. Hill was first arrested in , for using stolen credit cards.

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Look Inside. Feb 26, Minutes Buy. Silicon Valley icon and bestselling author Guy Kawasaki shares the unlikely stories of his life and the lessons we can draw from them. Wise Guy , his most personal book, is about his surprising journey. He toyed with calling it Miso Soup for the Soul , because these stories like those in the Chicken Soup series reflect a wide range of experiences that have enlightened and inspired him. Guy covers everything from moral values to business skills to parenting.

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