Labor racketeers, casino operators, jewelry thieves and one time Murder Inc. assassins provide an intimate look into the biggest cash flow business in American history-organized crime. They were there from the beginning. They were the author's Jewish family crime culture.Alan Geik, his sister, an attorney, and their late brother, a New York Police Department detective, were an appreciative, and often amused, audience for this history that has since become part of American folklore.These same gangsters' battles with Nazi sympathizers are a recurring theme. They relished street brawls with Henry Ford's strike breaking thugs and other Nazi sympathizers on American streets.The author's late father-in-law, Lou Lenart, the first fighter pilot in the Israeli Air force, tells of organized crime's crucial support of the Israelis in their armed struggle for an independent state in Palestine.