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Last of the Gladiators: A Memoir Love, Redemption, and Mob
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Last of the Gladiators: A Memoir Love, Redemption, and Mob
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Last of the Gladiators: A Memoir Love, Redemption, and Mob
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On January 30, 2009, I snuck my famous and mortally ill father from New York Presbyterian Hospital to a waiting Medevac jet, where we flew in secret to a place few people would look for two die-hard New Yorkers: a town in Southern California aptly named Manhattan Beach. During our five years in exile, we, “the La Rossa boys” as we came to be known, made our mark as a most irreverent and unrivaled father/son duo. While I cooked him his favorite Italian dishes and kept him alive using the most up-to-date equipment and drugs, he recounted his legendary courtroom exploits.
Not only is
a memoir about some of the seminal legal events of a generation, but it's also a love story between a father and sona theme not often seen in American arts and letters. Not until I wrote that story, though, did I realize that I had not saved my father. He, in fact, saved me. I became a better man and father thanks to hima more joyous, grateful, and grounded soul.
Jimmy was, and always will be, my “true north.”