Taking Down Boston’s Most Notorious Gangster

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Our guest today on Modern Notion Daily is Dick Lehr, coauthor with Gerard ONeill of the definitive book on Bostons most notorious gangster, Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devils Deal (PublicAffairs, reissued August 2015). Lehr and ONeill were part of an investigative journalism team at The Boston Globe in the 1980s, covering Whitey and his brother Billy Bulger. As they got deeper into the story, though, they uncovered Whiteys unholy relationship with the FBI. Later in the hour, contributing editor Erin Blakemore tells the story of a husband so disgruntled he started a fake art movement. Music this hour: “Forgiven Not Forgotten” by Jahzzar, from the album Kuddelmuddel “Railroad’s Whiskey Co” by Jahzzar, from the album Home (Excerpt) “Soldiertype (militarised)” by Ketsa, from the album What’s Without’s Within

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