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Store Events - February 19, 7:00 p.m.
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Time: Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:00 p.m.
Location: Clinton Book Shop
Title of Event: Booksigning: Bob Ingle & Sandy McClure
You probably know the story of the N.J. governor who put his Israeli boyfriend on the payroll in charge of homeland security, and later quit, declaring himself “a gay American.”You probably heard about the U.S. senator who decided to run for Jersey governor and gave his union-leader gal pal a $6 million parting gift. Maybe you read of the multi-millionaire developer who hired a hooker to have videotaped sex with his
brother-in-law, and then sent the tape to his sister.
But here are some stories you may not know: The state judge who claimed a broken toilet led her to steal watches
- The state senator whose brother-in-law was a hit man
- The history of how the mob muscled in on Atlantic City even as state officials
swore to keep the wiseguys out
- How mob-connected businesses, banned across the country,
somehow get work in the Garden State.
You can’t make this stuff up, and Ingle and McClure haven’t. Everything in The Soprano State is real, but it reads like fiction. Rudolph Giuliani, Al Capone, Jimmy Hoffa, Machiavelli, Steven Seagal, and Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff make appearances too. It will make you laugh, and even a little angry —
and may make you want to move or really glad if you live in another state.
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The Soprano State: New Jersey's Culture of Corruption
by
Ingle, Bob,
McClure, Sandy
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$14.95
Published: St. Martin's Griffin, 2009
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
See all editions of this title.
The "New York Times" Bestseller
Updated with the Latest Scandals
It's not a joke
New Jersey leads the country in corruption
"The Soprano State "details the you-couldn't-make-this-up true story of the corruption that has pervaded New Jersey politics, government, and business for the past thirty years. From Jimmy Hoffa purportedly being buried somewhere beneath the end zone in Giants Stadium, through allegations of a thoroughly corrupt medical and dental university, through Mafia influence at all levels, the Garden State might indeed be better named after the HBO mobsters.
Where else would:
- A state attorney general show up after police pulled over her boyfriend who was driving without a valid license?
- A state senator and mayor of Newark (the same guy) spend thousands of dollars of taxpayers' money on a junket to Rio days before leaving office?
- A politically connected developer hire a prostitute to tape sex acts with his own brother-in-law and then send the tape to his sister?
Only in the Soprano State.
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