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SYNOPSIS
In the biography, The Last Jewish Gangster, follow the life of Michael J. Hardy, a chubby Jewish boy from the Brownsville streets in Brooklyn to the world's most dangerous prison in Mexico. Michael wants nothing more than to prove to his "Queen of NYC crime" mother that he deserves her love and is tougher than the famous gangsters she dates (Bugsy Siegel is Michael's godfather). Coming from a mixed heritage of Southern Baptists and Ashkenazic Ukrainian Jews, without a father, and rejected by his mother at birth, Michael becomes a fearless and lawless gangster over the next five decades.
When he finally reaches his goal, his mother is on her death bed, he's been shot 11 times, robbed hundreds of people, spent 16 years in prisons and jails (with more to come), committed multiple kidnappings, and killed 19 times. Now he struggles with forgiveness, within himself, those he harmed, and those who harmed him.
What's unique about this mob/gangster/true crime biography is the first-person look inside the psyche of a fearless gangster as he tells his life's story to his lawyer in 1990 and his therapist in 2014. Sometimes humorous, often times you have to look away – but you'll find yourself rooting for Michael J. Hardy, The Last Jewish Gangster.
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