Tom Folsom
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Tom Folsom is a writer, director, and producer of television documentaries for A&E and Showtime, and the author of The Mad Ones: Crazy Joe Gallo and the Revolution at the Edge of the Underworld and co-author of Mr. Untouchable: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Heroin’s Teflon Don written with its subject, drug-kingpin Nicky Barnes portrayed in the film American Gangster. He lives in New York City. http://www.tomfolsom.com

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Gangster Chic: Joey Gallo

Posted May 17, 2009 | 10:55:14 (EST)

Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad "Joey", Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia. Joey was the epitome of gangster chic, an anti-hero and counterculture rebel/philosopher whose readings of cigarette-burned copies of Camus...

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