Top products from r/TheDeuceHBO
We found 5 product mentions on r/TheDeuceHBO. We ranked the 5 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America
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Number of reviews: 1
Show Reddit reviews2. Black Players: The Secret World Of Black Pimps
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Number of reviews: 1
Show Reddit reviews3. Pimp: The Story of My Life
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Number of reviews: 1
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The Girls Who Went Away is a good book about this that's widely available. Women share their experiences of maternity homes and what it was like to give birth and treated like they didn't deserve the same care as married mothers.
https://www.amazon.com/Money-Power-Making-Vegas-America/dp/0375701265
Vegas is the 'Rosetta Stone' of understanding the mob in America.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/607124.The_Gang_That_Couldn_t_Shoot_Straight
A Roman a clef ... very well researched by one of the best crime writers of that era.
PRIMITIVE REBELS by Eric Hobsawn
MAFIA & MAFIOSA by Henner Hess
Good places to start.
Black Players is really good. White guy recounts he and his wife immersing themselves with Oakland (SF Bay Pimps) in the 60s/70s for doctoral research paper.
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Players-Secret-World-Pimps/dp/0983104905
Tales of Times Square by Josh Alan Friedman is fairly legendary. I'm somewhat surprised that Simon didn't enlist Friedman as a consultant on the show.
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Friedman also has a podcast out by the same name where he plays interviews he did from the era (season 1 only, season 2 he goes off on other tangents): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tales-of-by-josh-alan-friedman/id1281817595?mt=2
You need to read the book "Pimp" by Iceberg Slim.
https://www.amazon.com/Pimp-Story-Life-Iceberg-Slim/dp/1451617135