Episode 25 “Bigger than U.S. Steel”: Mainstreaming Crime in the Postwar Era Episode 24 A Hoodlum Complex: Frank Sinatra, American Mass Culture, and the Mob BONUS BONUS EPISODE: Sin City, USA: the Culture of Conformity, the Sex Industry, and Las Vegas BONUS BONUS EPISODE: “A Place in the Sun”: the Sands Hotel and Casino and the Mob BONUS BONUS EPISODE: “Welcome to the Moulin Rouge”: Joe Louis, Civil Rights, and Mid-Century Las Vegas BONUS BONUS EPISODE: The Eyes of Texas: Benny Binion, the Horseshoe Casino, and the Evolution of Las Vegas BONUS BONUS EPISODE: “Uncle Charlie Killed Dutch Schultz,” an Interview with Author Alan Geik BONUS BONUS EPISODE: Benjamin Siegel and the Opening Night at the “Fabulous” Flamingo, December 26, 1946 Episode 23 The Desert Oasis: the Mafia’s Takeover of Las Vegas, 1941-1947 Episode 22 For Love of Country…and Family: the Mafia, World War II, and Operation Underworld Episode 21 Anti-Fascist Mafiosi: Organized Crime’s Fight Against American Fascism Episode 20 Hollywood Mafia: the Rackets and Los Angeles’ Gangsters Episode 19 Mafia Manifest Destiny: the Emergence of a West Coast Mob Episode 18 “I Do to Others What They Do to Me…Only Worse”: Jimmy Hoffa, the Teamsters, and Organized Crime Episode 17 Goons and Ginks and Company Finks: Organized Crime and Organized Labor in the Great Depression LISTEN TO US ON SPOTIFY
