George Anastasia
George Anastasia | |
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| Born | (1947年02月05日) February 5, 1947 (age 78) South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | crime journalist author organized crime expert columnist |
| Years active | 1970s–present |
George Anastasia (born February 5, 1947) is an American author and former writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer . He is widely considered to be an expert on the American Mafia.[1] [2] [3] He was an organized crime investigative reporter, who was once targeted for death by then-Philadelphia crime family boss John Stanfa.[4] He won the Sigma Delta Chi Award and has also been described on a 60 Minutes television profile as "One of the most respected crime reporters in the country."[1] Anastasia lives in Pitman, New Jersey.[5]
Early life and education
[edit ]Anastasia was born in South Philadelphia and raised in Westville in South Jersey.[6] He graduated from Gloucester Catholic High School in 1965 and earned a BA in French literature from Dartmouth College.[5] He also studied at Swarthmore College and the University of Florida.
Career
[edit ]Anastasia has served as an adjunct professor and lecturer at Glassboro State College, now called Rowan University, Temple University, and has been a lecturer for the U.S. State Department-sponsored series of weeklong seminars on journalism and organized crime in Bulgaria (2004 and 2007), Croatia (2005), Serbia (2006), and Italy (2007).[7]
He is the author of six books, including The Last Gangster (ReganBooks/Harper Collins, March 2004), a New York Times bestseller, which chronicles the demise of the Philadelphia mob. His other books are Blood and Honor (William Morrow & Co., 1991), which Jimmy Breslin called "the best gangster book ever written"; New York Times bestseller The Summer Wind (Regan Books/HarperCollins, 1999) about the Thomas Capano-Anne Marie Fahey murder case, and The Goodfella Tapes (Avon Books, 1998), Mobfather (Kensington Books, 1993), and The Ultimate Book of Gangster Movies (Perseus Books, 2011), co-authored with Glen Macnow. He has written for Penthouse , Playboy , and The Village Voice . He also has been featured on several network television news magazine reports about organized crime and has worked as a consultant on projects for ABC, Discovery Channel, History Channel, and National Geographic Channel.[citation needed ]
Anastasia is the author of a novella, The Big Hustle (Philadelphia Inquirer Books, 2001), and has contributed to two anthologies of Italian American writers, A Sitdown with the Sopranos and Don't Tell Momma. Mob Files, an anthology of articles he has written for The Inquirer, was published in September 2008 by Camino Books.[7]
Anastasia hosts a YouTube channel called "MobTalk" along with FOX 29's Dave Schratweiser, which provides updates on the organized crime world.[8]
Bibliography
[edit ]- Blood and Honor: Inside the Scarfo Mob, the Mafia's Most Violent Family (1991)
- Mobfather: The Story of a Wife And Son Caught in the Web of the Mafia (1993)
- The Goodfella Tapes (1998)
- The Summer Wind: Thomas Capano and the Murder of Anne Marie Fahey (1999)
- The Big Hustle (2001)
- The Last Gangster (2004)
- Mobfiles: Mobsters, Molls and Murder (2008)
- Philadelphia True Noir: Kingpins, Hustles and Homicides (2010)
- The Ultimate Book of Gangster Movies (2011)
- Gotti's Rules: The Story of John Alite, Junior Gotti, and the Demise of the American Mafia (2015)[9]
- Doctor Dealer (2020)
References
[edit ]- ^ a b "Acclaimed 'Mobster Author' to Speak at Press Club". 04/20/2011. The Press Club. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
- ^ Goldstein, Allison. "Blogging about the Mob". American Journalism Review. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
- ^ Moran, Robert (December 16, 2012). "Her brother 'had nothing to do with the mob,' slain man's sister says". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Archived from the original on February 16, 2013. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
- ^ Gladstone, Neil (January 11, 2013). "George Anastasia". Philadelphia City Paper.
- ^ a b Shyrock, Bob. "Gloucester County Italian Heritage Commission honors journalist/author George Anastasia", NJ.com, October 10, 2014. Accessed January 9, 2017. "The Pitman resident will be honored Wednesday, Oct. 22, 6 p.m. at the commission's annual 'Night in Sicily' fund-raising event at Auletto's Caterers in Almonesson.... Born in South Philadelphia, Anastasia graduated from Gloucester Catholic High School in 1965 and earned a bachelor's in French Literature from Dartmouth College in 1969."
- ^ Manzella, Joseph C. The Struggle to Revitalize American Newspapers, p. 165. E. Mellen Press, 2002. ISBN 9780773472594. Accessed June 11, 2015. "George Anastasia came from South Jersey near Westville."
- ^ a b George Anastasia HTML at Beasley Firm website (BeasleyFirm.com)
- ^ "George Anastasia | PhillyVoice".
- ^ Anastasia, George (2015). Gotti's Rules, The Story of John Alite, Junior Gotti, and the Demise of the American Mafia. Dey Street Books; 2015. Dey Street Books. ISBN 978-0062346872.
- 1948 births
- Living people
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- American male journalists
- American male non-fiction writers
- American reporters and correspondents
- American writers of Italian descent
- Dartmouth College alumni
- Gloucester Catholic High School alumni
- Journalists from Philadelphia
- Non-fiction writers about organized crime in the United States
- People from Pitman, New Jersey
- People from Westville, New Jersey
- Rowan University faculty
- Swarthmore College alumni
- Temple University faculty
- University of Florida alumni
- Writers from Gloucester County, New Jersey