Borgata: Clash of Titans: A History of the American Mafia by Louis Ferrante

Author:Louis Ferrante [Ferrante, Louis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: United States, Social & Cultural Studies, History, 20th Century, True Crime, Nonfiction, Americas
ISBN: 9781639367498
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2025-01-06T23:00:00+00:00

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Unlike Jack, who was an avid reader throughout his life, Bobby had little interest in books. His mother, Rose, once said of him, ‘He didn’t read very much when he was young. He was one of the ones I had to keep urging to read.’ Beset with guilt, Bobby now dove into the classics of Greek literature. In one book, he underlined a passage by Aeschylus that read, ‘All arrogance will reap a harvest rich in tears. God calls men to a heavy reckoning for overweening pride.’

Beyond being humbled, Bobby also learned to cry, an emotional response that was unacceptable in the Kennedy household, and something he had forbidden his own children from doing, telling them, ‘Hush now, a Kennedy never cries.’ On the day after the assassination, as Hoover went to gamble at the racetrack, Bobby locked himself inside the Lincoln bedroom of the White House where he was heard sobbing in his sleep while chanting, ‘Why, God, why?’ Should we be so audacious as to answer for the Almighty, we might respond, ‘Why, Bobby, why did you pick fights with Allen Dulles, J. Edgar Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Hoffa, Santo Trafficante, Sam Giancana, William Harvey, Johnny Roselli, Carlos Marcello, and five thousand sworn mafia killers across the country, with another five thousand CIA-trained Cuban militants?’ For years to come, whenever bottled-up anger erupted from inside him, Bobby would blame his brother’s death on ‘those Cuban cunts’ and the ‘guy from New Orleans’, never Oswald, who, at best, was a pawn if not a patsy.

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