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In researching Sam Giancana, two things became
almost immediately apparent:
1) Because he lived in a world that didn’t publicize its day-to-day activities,
and because his particular activities allegedly centered around so many of this
nation’s most controversial news events -- the Bay of Pigs uprising, the Kennedy
assassination, the Marilyn Monroe "suicide," etal. -- much of what might be
called a "Giancana Biography" are matters open to debate.
2) Since he had, according to some theories, participated in these far-reaching events,
albeit as a shadowy manipulator, he appears as an important footnote in many, many books
not necessarily about him, but about those events.
The following bibliography lists the books to which I referred to get as clearly an
unbiased and new view as possible of Sam Giancana. In this vein, the books written by his
brother and daughter, being very honest and sometimes painfully open, were invaluable.
They knew him well, better than any other person alive, and fortunately for prosperity
they tell it as they saw it and heard it, without family sentiment. The book,  Double Cross: The Explosive, inside Story of the Mobster Who
Controlled America, was especially enlightening, as it summons up some
thought-provoking theories about Momo's role in the above-mentioned episodes.
But, since every story has its two (or more) sides; the other sources, which often
differed in fact and tone, helped round out a three-dimensional figure.
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Giancana, Sam and Chuck. Double Cross: The Explosive, inside Story of the Mobster Who
Controlled America
Giancana, Antoinette and Renner, Thomas C. Mafia Princess. New York: William
Morrow & Company, Inc., 1984.
Hersh, Seymour M.  Dark Side of Camelot.
Morgan, John M. Prince of Crime. New York: Stein and Day, 1985.
Nash, Jay Robert. Bloodletters and Badmen. New York: M. Evans & Co.
1973.
Sifakis, C. Encyclopedia of Crime. New York: Facts On File, 1982.
Zion, Sidney. Loyalty and Betrayal -- The Story of the American Mob. San
Francisco: Collins Publishers, 1994.
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