Every generation has its seminal gangster story. The Mad Ones tells the glamorous life and violent death of Crazy Joe Gallo.
Celebrated asKing of the Streets by Bob Dylan and steeped in legend from The Godfather.
Crazy Joe and his brothers, Larry and Kid Blast, waged an all-out street war against the Mafia by "going to the mattresses" with shotguns and grenades in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Called the toughest gang in the city, the Gallos stood apart with hip style, fierce ambition, and Crazy Joe's manic idealism inspired by the beatniks of Greenwich Village. Leading cultural figures embraced Joey as a character straight out of Camus.
Dressed in a sharp suit and dark hipster shades, Joey wrote poetry, painted, and got his kicks devouring existential philosophy. Here, for the first time, is the complete story of the infamous Gallo mob war, a crime epic climaxing in Crazy Joe's murder on the mean streets of Little Italy, where he was gunned down mid-bite in a clam bar. A powerful collision of true crime and pop culture, The Mad Ones captures the revolutionary spirit of the sixties and brings to life one of the most vibrant antiheroes in American history.