Sammy the bull gravano biography examples
Sammy the bull gravano daughter!
Sammy the bull gravano biography examples and pictures
Peter Maas
New York: Harper Collins, 1997
308 p.
Subject, Methods, Database:
A biography of Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano, underboss of the Gambino family who turned government witness in 1991, based on interviews with Gravano.
Content:
Salvatore Gravano was born March 12, 1945. He grew up with two older sisters in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, an Italian-American neighborhood of mainly blue-collar residents. A dress manufacturer financed Gravano's parents, both from Sicily, in a satellite factory of their own.
Sammy the bull gravano biography examples
They did well enough in business to afford a summer cottage on Long Island.
Because of his severe dyslexia, which was not detected by his teachers, Gravano was held back in fourth grade. To the humiliation he suffered, Gravano responded with violence.
A fight with two older boys over his bike earned him the nickname "the bull". He joined a youth gang, called the Rampers, and got in