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|author=Oscar Goodman and George Anastasia
|title=Being Oscar: From Mob Lawyer to Mayor of Las Vegas
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=I've a confession to make. I've done something which I tell our reviewers they must never do: I took a book to review which I didn't expect to like. The Mafia, the mob - call it what you will - are not people I admire and I thought it would be a small step to extend that to an attorney who defended them. Las Vegas? Well, it's not going to be my destination of choice. I'm not against gambling, but I struggle with the concept of travelling to a city that revels in it. Oscar Goodman says that had he been the benevolent dictator of Las Vegas rather than the mayor he would have legalised prostitution and drugs. Hmm... This book was going to be one of those that I threw against the wall in disgust, wasn't it?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00HX9UEG6</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=James Lasdun
|summary=Growing up as one of the few black children in Luton in the 1970s, Colin Grant was in awe of his father, always known as Bageye. In this memoir of his childhood, he looks back at his own early years and the impact his feckless dad - and his friends, or spars, such as Summer Wear, Tidy Boots, Anxious and Pioneer - had on him.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552396</amazonuk>
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