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Russell Shortos Grandpa Was a Smalltime Mobster

Published: Feb. 13, 2021, 2:12 a.m.

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Russell Shorto joins us.  In his new book, \\u201cSmalltime,\\u201d after much throat clearing and hedging about not being a memoirist, Russell Shorto \\u2014 a master of historical narrative \\u2014 digs up the facts on his family. Until now, Shorto has written books mostly about people he\\u2019s never met, trying to get inside the heads of Peter Stuyvesant in \\u201cThe Island at the Center of the World\\u201d; Baruch Spinoza in \\u201cAmsterdam\\u201d; and George Washington in his last book, \\u201cRevolution Song.\\u201d But the most fascinating characters in those books \\u2014 for Shorto and for the reader \\u2014 are always the ones that history has forgotten.

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An Italian-American whose family name was changed long ago from Sciotto, Shorto comes from a small-time criminal clan in Johnstown, Pa., people you have never heard of before. History has not forgotten them. It never knew them to begin with.  More at www.CooperandAnthony.com

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