Tom Folsom, THE MAD ONES: Crazy Joe Gallo and the Revolution at the Edge of the Underworld

Summary: For anyone who loves The Godfather and Jack Kerouac, Tom Folsom’s THE MAD ONES: Crazy Joe Gallo and the Revolution at the Edge of the Underworld, tells for the first time the complete story of Joey Gallo, a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia establishment. Celebrated in a Bob Dylan ballad, Gallo was the epitome of gangster chic, an anti-hero and counterculture rebel/philosopher who read Camus and Sartre. He made the rounds of high society with Jerry Orbach before being gunned down mid-bite at Umberto’s Clam House in Little Italy. Coinciding with this year's 40th anniversary of the publication of The Godfather, The Mad Ones brings to life the true stories that inspired Puzo's masterpiece. Folsom is a writer, director, and producer of television documentaries for A&E and Showtime, and the co-author of Mr. Untouchable: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Heroin's Teflon Don, written with its subject, drug kingpin Nicky Barnes.