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===In literature=== * In the 2010 book of photographs ''New York City Gangland'', Lansky is seen "loitering" on Little Italy's famed "Whiskey Curb" with Siegel, Alo, and waterfront racketeer Eddie McGrath. * In the 1996 novel ''The Plan'', by [[Stephen J. Cannell]], Lansky and Alo are involved in putting an anti-[[Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act]] presidential candidate into office. * In ''Lansky'', the 2009 one-act play by [[Joseph Bologna]], Lansky is portrayed by [[Mike Burstyn]]. * In the book ''Havana'' by [[Stephen Hunter]], Lansky and [[Fidel Castro]] are both main characters. * In the 2009 novel ''If The Dead Rise Not'' by [[Philip Kerr]], the hero, Bernie Gunther, meets Lansky in Havana. * In the 2009 novel ''Ride of the Valkyries'' by Stuart Slade, Lansky runs Cuba as the head of the Mafia. * In the 2011 memoir of cocaine cowboy [[Jon Roberts]], ''[[American Desperado]]'', Roberts recounts several encounters such as his uncle Joe Riccobono's relationship with Lansky and the eventual asking for Lansky's personal permission to kill his stepson Richard Schwartz on October 12, 1977, in Miami in a revenge plot. * Lansky is a supporting character in ''The Raiders'', [[Harold Robbins]]'s 1995 follow-up to ''[[The Carpetbaggers]]''. * In the 2015 novel ''World Gone By'', by [[Dennis Lehane]], Lansky is a supporting character and friend to fictional gangster Joe Coughlin. He is mentioned but not seen in the previous novel in the series, ''[[Live by Night]]''. * The 2016 book of photographs ''Organized Crime in Miami'' includes previously unpublished photos of Lansky and his second wife on their 1949 honeymoon, as well as photographs from Lansky's 80th birthday with his brother Jake, and longtime partners Alo and Harry "Nig Rosen" Stromberg. * The 2019 comic book ''Meyer'' fictionalizes "one last caper" by the aged Lansky, involving a violent chase of a lost cocaine shipment. It is set in 1982 Miami and Florida Keys.<ref>Additional reference for literature: {{cite web |title=Meyer|date=September 24, 2019 |author=Jonathan Lang, Andrea Mutti & Shawn Martinbrough |publisher=Humanoids |url=https://www.humanoids.com/y_catalog/book?id=1106}}</ref>
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