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The History of the Mafia

Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848583842
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book The History of the Mafia written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mafia began on a small island in the Mediterranean, Sicily. It grew to become a major political force in Italy, while its tentacles penetrated every aspect of life in the United States. Through drugs, it spread its influence to Britain, Canada and Australia. And through the gangster movies of Hollywood, including The Godfather and Goodfellas, it permeates popular culture. The History of the Mafia is full of blood-chilling characters, from Al Capone, who ran Chicago during Prohibition, and hitmen Louis Lekpe and Alberto Anastasia who founded Murder, Inc, to Totò Riina, 'boss of bosses', John Gotti, 'the Teflon don', and Bernardo 'The Tractor' Provenzano, who hid out from the law in a farmhouse for 43 years... These were extraordinary men who lived through extraordinary times. The History of the Mafia tells the story of their lives, their families, their codes, their crimes and their cold-blooded murders. A long and enthralling tale, drenched in blood and scored with betrayal.

Mafia Crimes

Author : Al Cimino
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788284178
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (882 download)

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Download or read book Mafia Crimes written by Al Cimino and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized crime is perhaps the most fascinating phenomenon of our time. From Al Capone, who boldly claimed his bootlegging activities were a public service, to the flamboyant Teflon Don, the criminals of the underworld have garnered headlines and captured our imagination with their violent and extravagant lifestyles. Mafia Crimes is an absorbing introduction to the mob's most influential personalities - their lives, loves and terrible crimes. It also provides and in-depth history of the role of the Mob in Sicily and America. For anyone who wants to know the truth about organized crime and understand the violent forces that have shaped it over the last century, this book is an indispensable guide.

The Mob and the City

Author : C. Alexander Hortis
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616149248
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Mob and the City written by C. Alexander Hortis and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget what you think you know about the Mafia. After reading this book, even life-long mob aficionados will have a new perspective on organized crime. Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the Mafia came to dominate organized crime in New York City during the 1930s through 1950s. Based on exhaustive research of archives and secret files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, author and attorney C. Alexander Hortis draws on the deepest collection of primary sources, many newly discovered, of any history of the modern mob. Shattering myths, Hortis reveals how Cosa Nostra actually obtained power at the inception. The author goes beyond conventional who-shot-who mob stories, providing answers to fresh questions such as: * Why did the Sicilian gangs come out on top of the criminal underworld? * Can economics explain how the Mafia families operated? * What was the Mafia's real role in the drug trade? * Why was Cosa Nostra involved in gay bars in New York since the 1930s? Drawing on an unprecedented array of primary sources, The Mob and the City is the most thorough and authentic history of the Mafia's rise to power in the early-to-mid twentieth century.

The Mafia and the Machine

Author : Frank Hayde
Publisher : Barricade Books
ISBN 13 : 9781569804438
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Mafia and the Machine written by Frank Hayde and published by Barricade Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the American Mafia is not complete without a chapter on Kansas City, MO. The 'City of Fountains' has popped up in The Godfather, Casino and The Sopranos, but many aren't aware that Kansas City is key in the history of organised crime. Events unfolding in this city affected the fortunes of all the 'families' and shaped the entire underworld. In The Mafia and the Machine, author Frank Hayde ties in every major name in organised crime - Luciano, Bugsy, Lanksy - as well as the corrupt Kansas City police force.

American Mafia

Author : Thomas Reppetto
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250125596
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book American Mafia written by Thomas Reppetto and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reppetto's book earns its place among the best . . . he brings fresh context to a familiar story worth retelling." —The New York Times Book Review Organized crime—the Italian American kind—has long been a source of popular entertainment and legend. Now Thomas Reppetto provides a balanced history of the Mafia's rise—from the 1880s to the post-WWII era—that is as exciting and readable as it is authoritative. Structuring his narrative around a series of case histories featuring such infamous characters as Lucky Luciano and Al Capone, Reppetto draws on a lifetime of field experience and access to unseen documents to show us a locally grown Mafia. It wasn't until the 1920s, thanks to Prohibition, that the Mafia assumed what we now consider its defining characteristics, especially its octopuslike tendency to infiltrate industry and government. At mid-century the Kefauver Commission declared the Mafia synonymous with Union Siciliana; in the 1960s the FBI finally admitted the Mafia's existence under the name La Cosa Nostra. American Mafia is a fascinating look at America's most compelling criminal subculture from an author who is intimately acquainted with both sides of the street.

American Mafia: Chicago

Author : William Griffith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493006045
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book American Mafia: Chicago written by William Griffith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows stories about the American Mafia and its varied forms of crime, from racketeering to stock manipulation to murder. American Mafia: Chicago explores the Windy City, strolling through its neighborhoods and imagining scenes from the past—telling the stories of the men, women, and families and revealing the events behind the legends and the history of the families' beginnings and founding members. Featuring the most fascinating stories from the early days, when loosely-organized, incredibly secretive gangs terrorized neighborhoods with names like Little Hell, through the mob’s headiest years, when Al Capone and his men pretty well controlled the city, American Mafia: Chicago offers tantalizing glimpses into the era when Chicago was ruled by gangs with their ever-twisting allegiances and tangled webs of relationships. Most of the buildings are gone now. But the stories are still there, if you know where to look.

Gangsters and Organized Crime in Buffalo

Author : Michael F. Rizzo
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 161423549X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Gangsters and Organized Crime in Buffalo written by Michael F. Rizzo and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a tour of Buffalo, NY's mobster and mafia history. Local mob expert reveals gangsters' stories, hangouts and more. Buffalo has housed its fair share of thugs and mobsters. Besides common criminals and bank robbers, a powerful crime family headed by local boss Stefano Magaddino emerged in the 1920s. Close to Canada, Niagara Falls and Buffalo were perfect avenues through which to transport booze, and Magaddino and his Mafiosi maintained a stranglehold on the city until his death in 1974. Local mob expert Michael Rizzo takes a tour of Buffalo's mafia exploits everything from these brutal gangsters' favorite hangouts to secret underground tunnels to murder.

The Mafia

Author : Marco Gasparini
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
ISBN 13 : 9782080301505
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Mafia written by Marco Gasparini and published by Flammarion-Pere Castor. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An illustrated history of the Mafia, focusing on this highly developed criminal organization both as a cult subject and an important social phenomenon. Movie classics like The Godfather epitomize our fascination with the underworld of the Mafia, conjuring images of cigar-smoking dons and shoot-outs in pizzerias. But behind the romantic myths of 'men of honor' and omertà lies a very real world of murder, racketeering, and organized crime. Marco Gasparini traces the evolution of the Mafia from nineteenth-century Sicily to the streets of twentieth-century New York, to the international cartels that rule the illegal drug and arms trades today. In this authoritative volume he exposes the many secrets of an 'octopus' organization that has remained impenetrable for decades, despite the efforts of heroic crime fighters such as New York police officer Joe Petrosino and the similarly ill-fated Italian judge Giovanni Falcone almost a century later. We discover the Mafia's greatest godfathers, underbosses, and 'soldiers, ' as well as its pentiti (or turncoats) and the most formidable wives of Mafiosi. This book not only focuses on the original Sicilian Cosa Nostra and its various branches--such as Al Capone's Chicago Outfit or the still existent Corleonesi--it also features the equally bloody Neapolitan Camorra, which inspired the compelling documentary Gomorrah, and the Japanese Yakuza, the largest organized crime group in the world today, as well as the ever-growing Russian and Chinese 'mafias.' Mafia reveals the multi-faceted reality behind a phenomenon that has sparked the popular imagination for decades."--Amazon.com.

Complete History of the Mafia

Author : Jo Durden Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848375970
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Complete History of the Mafia written by Jo Durden Smith and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 200 illustrations and a complete glossary, this is an indispensable guide for a strongly interested market.

Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia

Author : John Dickie
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466893052
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia written by John Dickie and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Italian-American mafia has its roots in a mysterious and powerful criminal network in Sicily. While the mythology of the mafia has been widely celebrated in American culture, the true origins of its rituals, laws, and methods have never actually been revealed. John Dickie uses startling new research to expose the secrets of the Sicilian mafia, providing a fascinating account that is more violent, frightening, and darkly comic than anything conceived in popular movies and novels. How did the Sicilian mafia begin? How did it achieve its powerful grip in Italy and America? How does it operate today? From the mafia's origins in the 1860s to its current tense relationship with the Berlusconi government, Cosa Nostra takes us to the inner sanctum where few have dared to go before. This is an important work of history and a revelation for anyone who ever wondered what it means to be "made" in the mob.

Killing the Mob

Author : Bill O'Reilly
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250273668
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Killing the Mob written by Bill O'Reilly and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller! In the tenth book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard take on their most controversial subject yet: The Mob. Killing the Mob is the tenth book in Bill O'Reilly's #1 New York Times bestselling series of popular narrative histories, with sales of nearly 18 million copies worldwide, and over 320 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. O’Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in the United States, and expertly plumb the history of this nation’s most notorious serial robbers, conmen, murderers, and especially, mob family bosses. Covering the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, O’Reilly and Dugard trace the prohibition-busting bank robbers of the Depression Era, such as John Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby-Face Nelson. In addition, the authors highlight the creation of the Mafia Commission, the power struggles within the “Five Families,” the growth of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, the mob battles to control Cuba, Las Vegas and Hollywood, as well as the personal war between the U.S. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and legendary Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. O’Reilly and Dugard turn these legendary criminals and their true-life escapades into a read that rivals the most riveting crime novel. With Killing the Mob, their hit series is primed for its greatest success yet.

Mafia: The History of the Mob

Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848589441
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book Mafia: The History of the Mob written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized crime is perhaps the most fascinating phenomenon of our time. From Al Capone, who boldly claimed his bootlegging activities were a public service, to the flamboyant Teflon Don, John Gotti, the criminals of the underworld have garnered headlines and captured our imagination with their violent and extravagant lifestyles. Mafia is an absorbing introduction to the mob's most influential personalities - their lives, loves and terrible crimes. It also provides an in-depth history of the role of the Mob in Sicily and America. For anyone who wants to know the truth about organized crime and understand the violent forces that have shaped it over the last century, this book is an indispensable guide.

A History of St. Louis Gangsters

Author : John H. Auble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book A History of St. Louis Gangsters written by John H. Auble and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses mob activity on both sides of the river including gangsters: Charlie Birger, Frank "Buster" Wortman, John Joseph Vitale, Tony Giordano, Carl Austin Hall, Bonnie Brown Heady, David R. Leisure, and Paul J. Leisure.

Busting the Mob

Author : James B. Jacobs
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814742300
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Busting the Mob written by James B. Jacobs and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She may have had a soap opera private life, which included a very public marriage and breakup with George Jones, among other things, but Tammy Wynette still managed to turn out 17 number one singles during the late '60s and early '70s, the classics "Stand by Your Man," "D-I-V-O-R-C-E," and "Bedtime Story" being just three of them, each of which is compiled in this two-disc set of essential tracks. ~ Steve Leggett

Mafia

Author : Jo Durden-Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780572029791
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Mafia written by Jo Durden-Smith and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mobsters, Unions, and Feds

Author : James B. Jacobs
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814742947
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Mobsters, Unions, and Feds written by James B. Jacobs and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to document organized labor and the massive federal clean-up effort.

Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob

Author : Russell Shorto
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393245594
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob written by Russell Shorto and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town America. Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob boss but maintained an unspoken family vow of silence. Then an elderly relative prodded: You’re a writer—what are you gonna do about the story? Smalltime is a mob story straight out of central casting—but with a difference, for the small-town mob, which stretched from Schenectady to Fresno, is a mostly unknown world. The location is the brawny postwar factory town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The setting is City Cigar, a storefront next to City Hall, behind which Russ and his brother-in-law, “Little Joe,” operate a gambling empire and effectively run the town. Smalltime is a riveting American immigrant story that travels back to Risorgimento Sicily, to the ancient, dusty, hill-town home of Antonino Sciotto, the author’s great-grandfather, who leaves his wife and children in grinding poverty for a new life—and wife—in a Pennsylvania mining town. It’s a tale of Italian Americans living in squalor and prejudice, and of the rise of Russ, who, like thousands of other young men, created a copy of the American establishment that excluded him. Smalltime draws an intimate portrait of a mobster and his wife, sudden riches, and the toll a lawless life takes on one family. But Smalltime is something more. The author enlists his ailing father—Tony, the mobster’s son—as his partner in the search for their troubled patriarch. As secrets are revealed and Tony’s health deteriorates, the book become an urgent and intimate exploration of three generations of the American immigrant experience. Moving, wryly funny, and richly detailed, Smalltime is an irresistible memoir by a masterful writer of historical narrative.