Summary of Larry McShane's Chin

By IRB Media

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#1 Vincent the Chin Gigante was a mob boss who controlled a far-reaching business that earned tens of millions of dollars. He was a made man in the Genovese crime family, and he had a wife and five kids in a house in suburban New Jersey. He kept a mistress and three more children in a town house on the Upper East Side.

#2 The Chin controlled all numbers operations in Lower Manhattan, as well as the annual St. Anthony’s Feast in his neighborhood, where he turned piety into profit. He was the most successful Mafia boss of the last half-century, surpassing headline-making next-generation Mafiosi like Gotti.

#3 Gigante spent more time in office than four-term President Franklin Delano Roosevelt did in the White House. He became a part of pop culture, and his exploits were chronicled in big, bold, black type in the New York tabloids.

#4 The Chin was a very smart man, a very secretive man, and very cunning and ruthless. He was old-school Cosa Nostra, and he knew this thing, La Cosa Nostra, better than anyone in the country.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822507517

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Insights on Larry McShane's Chin

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Vincent the Chin Gigante was a mob boss who controlled a far-reaching business that earned tens of millions of dollars. He was a made man in the Genovese crime family, and he had a wife and five kids in a house in suburban New Jersey. He kept a mistress and three more children in a town house on the Upper East Side.

#2

The Chin controlled all numbers operations in Lower Manhattan, as well as the annual St. Anthony’s Feast in his neighborhood, where he turned piety into profit. He was the most successful Mafia boss of the last half-century, surpassing headline-making next-generation Mafiosi like Gotti.

#3

Gigante spent more time in office than four-term President Franklin Delano Roosevelt did in the White House. He became a part of pop culture, and his exploits were chronicled in big, bold, black type in the New York tabloids.

#4

The Chin was a very smart man, a very secretive man, and very cunning and ruthless. He was old-school Cosa Nostra, and he knew this thing, La Cosa Nostra, better than anyone in the country.

#5

Gigante endured, firmly entrenched as the Howard Hughes of organized crime. He didn’t move far from the neighborhood he had spent his entire life in. His life came full circle: a final farewell in the old neighborhood just the way the Chin would have wanted it.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Vincent Gigante, the fourth of Salvatore and Yolanda Gigante’s six boys, was born in a home still shrouded in loss and grief. His parents had immigrated to New York City in the 1920s, and his father was a jeweler.

#2

The Village was a haven for artists and eccentrics. The Gigantes were raised as Roman Catholics, with Sunday Mass a regular part of their routine. They were close with their mother, who never spoke English to her sons.

#3

The Gigante family’s economic fortunes improved once Salvatore landed a better job in the jewelry trade, but it required a long commute. Each night the entire family would gather at the dinner table to discuss the day’s events in two languages.

#4

The American version of La Cosa Nostra, the Genovese family, was