Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Reporter and Author George Anastasia to Speak to Press Club

George Anastasia
The books pictured above will be available for purchase and signing at the luncheon.
Media Highlight Michael Days  Editor of Philadelphia Daily News Michael Days is a Philadelphia native. He graduated from College of the Holy Cross and the University of Missouri. Days then worked on several papers, including the Wall Street Journal before joining the Daily News as a reporter. He has been moving up the ranks ever since. Hot Off the Presses! The Delaware County Elder Law Handbook and Resource Guide presented by COSA & The Delaware County Bar Association's Elder Law Committee & Delaware County Today Almanac presented by new publisher New Age Concepts Courtesy copies will be distributed to luncheon attendees.

Disorganized Crime --- Inquirer reporter and author George Anastasia will share the stories behind the stories about reporting on the likes of Skinny Joey Merlino, Big Ron Previte, Alton “Ace Capone” Coles, Kaboni Savage, Tom Capano and Rabbi Fred Neulander, to name just a few. You can’t make this stuff up. Anastasia will be the guest speaker at the Press Club luncheon on Wednesday, May 21st, at Harrah's Chester Casino & Race Track.

Anastasia has been writing about organized and disorganized crime for thirty-five years, covering casino gambling in Atlantic City, mob hits in Philadelphia, and criminal prosecutions throughout the country. 

The Philadelphia Inquirer reporter is the author of five books.His work has appeared in Penthouse, Playboy and The Village Voice. He also has been featured on several network television news magazine reports about organized crime and has worked as a consultant on projects for ABC, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel and National Geographic.

His books include The Last Gangster (ReganBooks/Harper Collins, March 2004), a New York Times bestseller that chronicles the demise of the Philadelphia mob.

His other books are Blood and Honor (Camino Books, 2004), which Jimmy Breslin called “the best gangster book ever written”; NYT bestseller The Summer Wind (Regan Books/HarperCollins, 1999) about the Thomas Capano-Anne Marie Fahey murder case; The Goodfella Tapes (Avon Books, 1998), and Mobfather (Camino Books, 2006).

Anastasia is the author of a novella, The Big Hustle (Philadelphia Inquirer Books, 2001) and has contributed to two anthologies of Italian-American writers, A Sitdown with the Sopranos and Don’t Tell Momma.

Born in South Philadelphia and raised in southern New Jersey, Anastasia is a graduate of Dartmouth College (1969) with a B.A. in French Literature. He has also studied at Swarthmore College and the University of Florida.

He has been an adjunct professor/lecturer at Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) and Temple University, and has been a lecturer for a U.S. State Department-sponsored series of weeklong seminars on journalism and organized crime in Bulgaria (2004, 2007), Croatia (2005), Serbia (2006) and Italy (2007).

Thanks to Camino Books, books will be available for purchase and signing at the luncheon.

Please note time and location for lunch:

Harrah's Chester Casino & Racetrack
Exclusive Diamond Club
777 Harrah's Blvd 
Chester, PA 19013

For directions, please visit Harrah's Web Site

** Check-in at 10:45a.m.**
**Lunch buffet begins at 11:00 a.m.**
Members with reservations: $15
Non-members and walk-ins: $18