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The Black Hand

Author : Stephan Talty
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544635353
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book The Black Hand written by Stephan Talty and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “gripping account” of the early 20th century organized crime ring chronicles “a lurid and little-known episode in American history” (The Washington Post). Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave stirred New York City, then the entire country, into panic. The children of Italian immigrants were being kidnapped and dozens of innocent victims gunned down. Bombs tore apart tenement buildings. Judges, senators, Rockefellers, and society matrons were threatened with gruesome deaths. The perpetrators’ only calling card was the symbol of a black hand. Standing between the American public and the Society of the Black Hand was Joseph Petrosino. Dubbed “the Italian Sherlock Holmes,” Petrosino was an ingenious detective and master of disguise. As the crimes grew ever more bizarre, Petrosino and his all-Italian police squad raced to capture members of the secret society before the nation’s anti-immigrant tremors exploded into catastrophe. The Black Hand is a “taut, brisk, and very cinematic” true crime history of America at the dawn of the 20th century (Newsday).

Joe Petrosino

Author : Arrigo Petacco
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780025951600
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Joe Petrosino written by Arrigo Petacco and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Big Town, Big Time

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Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1582610282
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Big Town, Big Time written by and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 100th anniversary of the creation of Greater New York via consolidation of what had previously been dozens of separate communities. These are the greatest moment in New York City history, recreated from the news and picture files of the New York Daily News. From Typhoid Mary to the opening of Yankee Stadium to the unforgettable blackout, it's a time to remember. This 224 page book is a colorful panoply of politics, culture, crime, sports, etc.... The personalities, the events, the flow of time. The Daily News, for so long the eyes and the ears of the city, chronicles the past and brings it back to life in "Big Town Big Time!"

The Black Hand

Author : Robert M. Lombardo
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252076753
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Black Hand written by Robert M. Lombardo and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unraveling the truth about the sinister extortion scheme that preyed on innocent Chicagoans

The Italian Squad

Author : Andrew Paul Mele
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476638764
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Italian Squad written by Andrew Paul Mele and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Italian immigrants left their home country for the United States and, particularly, New York City. A small minority of the immigrants were members of a criminal syndicate that largely victimized fellow immigrants. The most common crime was a type of extortion known as "Black Hand." The methods of extortion were particularly violent, and included kidnapping, arson, and murder. The New York Police Department, unable to speak the language and unaware of the traditions of the immigrants, was virtually helpless in dealing with them. In 1904, Italian-American Lt. Detective Joseph Petrosino formed a group of Italian detectives to deal exclusively with the extortion crimes and the criminal underworld of Italian society in New York which had become known in the American press as "The Black Hand Society." This book tells the story of The Italian Squad from its inception, through Petrosino's death, to the squad's expansion into Queens and Brooklyn.

The Bulldog Detective

Author : Jeffrey D. Simon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1633888665
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book The Bulldog Detective written by Jeffrey D. Simon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America in the early twentieth century was rife with threats. Organized crime groups like the Mafia, German spies embedded behind enemy lines ahead of World War I, package bombs sent throughout the country, and the 1920 Wall Street bombing dominated headlines. Yet the story of the one man tasked with combating these threats has yet to be told. The Bulldog Detective: William J. Flynn and America’s First War Against the Mafia, Spies, and Terrorists is the first book to tell the story of Flynn, the first government official to bring down the powerful Mafia, uncover a sophisticated German spy ring in the United States, and launch a formal war on terrorism on his way to becoming one of the most respected and effective law enforcement officials in American history.Long before Eliot Ness and the Untouchables went after Al Capone and the Italian mob in Chicago, Flynn dismantled the first Mafia family to exist in America. Next stop for the indefatigable crime fighter would be Chief of the Secret Service where he would set his crosshairs on the country’s most notorious currency counterfeiters. Coined “the Bulldog” for his tenacity, Flynn’s fame soared as he exposed Kaiser Germany’s sophisticated spy and sabotage ring on the cusp of America’s entry into World War I. As the Director of the Bureau of Investigation (the forerunner of the FBI), the Bulldog would devise the first counterterrorist strategy in U.S. history. In this riveting biography, author Jeffrey D. Simon brings to life the forgotten saga of one of America’s greatest crime and terrorist fighters. Exquisitely researched, The Bulldog Detective finally uncovers the important legacy of this fascinating man who will now no longer be lost in history.

Rogues' Gallery

Author : John Oller
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524745669
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Rogues' Gallery written by John Oller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginnings of big-city police work to the rise of the Mafia, Rogues' Gallery is a colorful and captivating history of crime and punishment in the bustling streets of Old New York. Rogues' Gallery is a sweeping, epic tale of two revolutions, one feeding off the other, that played out on the streets of New York City during an era known as the Gilded Age. For centuries, New York had been a haven of crime. A thief or murderer not caught in the act nearly always got away. But in the early 1870s, an Irish cop by the name of Thomas Byrnes developed new ways to catch criminals. Mug shots and daily lineups helped witnesses point out culprits; the famed rogues' gallery allowed police to track repeat offenders; and the third-degree interrogation method induced recalcitrant crooks to confess. Byrnes worked cases methodically, interviewing witnesses, analyzing crime scenes, and developing theories that helped close the books on previously unsolvable crimes. Yet as policing became ever more specialized and efficient, crime itself began to change. Robberies became bolder and more elaborate, murders grew more ruthless and macabre, and the street gangs of old transformed into hierarchal criminal enterprises, giving birth to organized crime, including the Mafia. As the decades unfolded, corrupt cops and clever criminals at times blurred together, giving way to waves of police reform at the hands of men like Theodore Roosevelt. This is a tale of unforgettable characters: Marm Mandelbaum, a matronly German-immigrant woman who paid off cops and politicians to protect her empire of fencing stolen goods; "Clubber" Williams, a sadistic policeman who wielded a twenty-six-inch club against suspects, whether they were guilty or not; Danny Driscoll, the murderous leader of the Irish Whyos Gang and perhaps the first crime boss of New York; Big Tim Sullivan, the corrupt Tammany Hall politician who shielded the Whyos from the law; the suave Italian Paul Kelly and the thuggish Jewish gang leader Monk Eastman, whose rival crews engaged in brawls and gunfights all over the Lower East Side; and Joe Petrosino, a Sicilian-born detective who brilliantly pursued early Mafioso and Black Hand extortionists until a fateful trip back to his native Italy. Set against the backdrop of New York's Gilded Age, with its extremes of plutocratic wealth, tenement poverty, and rising social unrest, Rogues' Gallery is a fascinating story of the origins of modern policing and organized crime in an eventful era with echoes for our own time.

The Origin of Organized Crime in America

Author : David Critchley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135854939
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book The Origin of Organized Crime in America written by David Critchley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Black hand, Calabrians, and the Mafia -- "First family" of the New York Mafia -- The Mafia and the Baff murder -- The neapolitan challenge -- New York City in the 1920s -- Castellammare war and "La Cosa Nostra" -- Americanization and the families -- Localism, tradition, and innovation.

Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

Author : Brad Ricca
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250072247
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Sherlock Holmes written by Brad Ricca and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the true story of the first female U.S. District Attorney and traveling detective who found missing eighteen-year-old Ruth Cruger when the entire NYPD had given up.

Our Police Guardians

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Our Police Guardians written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our police guardians history of the police Department of the city of New York, and the policing of same for the past one hundred years, also an account of my travels through Europe and America, visiting all of the largest cities, covering some sixty-five thousand miles as a police propagandist. With reminiscences of the past forty years, thirty-two pages of illustrations, and ten pages of reproduction of Historical letters and Much Other Interesting Information.

Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition

Author : Francesco Landolfi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000623483
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition written by Francesco Landolfi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-22 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to highlight the causes why the Prohibition Era led to an evolution of the New York mob from a rural, ethnic and small-scale to an urban, American and wide-scale crime. The temperance project, advocated by the WASP elite since the early nineteenth century, turned into prohibition only after the end of WWI with the enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment. By considering the success that war prohibition made to the soldiers' psychophysical condition, Congress aimed to shift this political move even to civil society. So it was that the Italian, Irish and Jewish mobs took the chance to spread their bribe system to local politics due to the lucrative alcohol bootlegging. New York became the core of the national anti-prohibition, where the smuggling from Canada and Europe merged into the legendary Manhattan nightclubs and speakeasies. With the coming of the Great Depression, the Republican Party was aware about the failure of this political measure, leading to the making of a new corporate underworld. The book is addressed to historians of New York, historians of crime and historians of modern America as well as to an audience of readers interested in the history of the Prohibition Era.

An Unlikely Union

Author : Paul Moses
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479804150
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book An Unlikely Union written by Paul Moses and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An Unlikely Union unfolds the dramatic story of how two of America's largest ethnic groups learned to love and laugh with each other in the wake of decades of animosity. The vibrant cast of characters features saints such as Mother Frances X. Cabrini, who stood up to the Irish American archbishop of New York when he tried to send her back to Italy, and sinners like Al Capone, who left his Irish wife home the night he shot it out with Brooklyn's Irish mob. Also highlighted are the love affair between radical labor organizers Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Carlo Tresca; Italian American gangster Paul Kelly's alliance with Tammany's "Big Tim" Sullivan; hero detective Joseph Petrosino's struggle to be accepted in the Irish-run NYPD; and Frank Sinatra's competition with Bing Crosby to be the country's top male vocalist. In this engaging history of the Irish and Italians, veteran New York City journalist and professor Paul Moses offers an archetypal American story. At a time of renewed fear of immigrants, it demonstrates that Americans are able to absorb tremendous social change and conflict--and come out the better for it."--Publisher's description.

Italian Americans in Law Enforcement

Author : Anne T. Romano Ph. D.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453558829
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Italian Americans in Law Enforcement written by Anne T. Romano Ph. D. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.

The Routledge History of Italian Americans

Author : William Connell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135046700
Total Pages : 915 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge History of Italian Americans written by William Connell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 915 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of Italian Americans weaves a narrative of the trials and triumphs of one of the nation’s largest ethnic groups. This history, comprising original essays by leading scholars and critics, addresses themes that include the Columbian legacy, immigration, the labor movement, discrimination, anarchism, Fascism, World War II patriotism, assimilation, gender identity and popular culture. This landmark volume offers a clear and accessible overview of work in the growing academic field of Italian American Studies. Rich illustrations bring the story to life, drawing out the aspects of Italian American history and culture that make this ethnic group essential to the American experience.

Spatialities in Italian American Women’s Literature

Author : Eva Pelayo Sañudo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000390845
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Spatialities in Italian American Women’s Literature written by Eva Pelayo Sañudo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the family saga as an instrument of literary analysis of writing by Italian American women, this book argues that the genre represents a key strategy for Italian American female writers as a form which distinctly allows them to establish cultural, gender and literary traditions. Spaces are inherently marked by the ideology of the societies that create and practice them, and this volume engages with spaces of cultural and gendered identity, particularly those of the ‘mean streets’ in Italian American fiction, which provide a method of critically analyzing the configurations and representations of identity associated with the Italian American community. Key authors examined include Julia Savarese, Marion Benasutti, Tina De Rosa, Helen Barolini, Melania Mazzucco and Laurie Fabiano. This book is suitable for students and scholars in Literature, Italian Studies, Cultural Studies and Gender Studies.

Greater Gotham

Author : Mike Wallace
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199723052
Total Pages : 1195 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Greater Gotham written by Mike Wallace and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 1195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is New York on a whole new scale, moving from national to global prominence -- an urban dynamo driven by restless ambition, boundless energy, immigrant dreams, and Wall Street greed. Within the first two decades of the twentieth century, a newly consolidated New York grew exponentially. The city exploded into the air, with skyscrapers jostling for prominence, and dove deep into the bedrock where massive underground networks of subways, water pipes, and electrical conduits sprawled beneath the city to serve a surging population of New Yorkers from all walks of life. New York was transformed in these two decades as the world's second-largest city and now its financial capital, thriving and sustained by the city's seemingly unlimited potential. Wallace's new book matches its predecessor in pure page-turning appeal and takes America's greatest city to new heights.

Global Organized Crime

Author : Mitchel P. Roth
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317267184
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Global Organized Crime written by Mitchel P. Roth and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the maelstrom of globalization and cyberspace, organized crime continues to defy definition. A diverse array of activities is perpetuated by criminal organizations, criminal groups and associations, and gangs, and it is clear that one specific label is no longer adequate. This book offers a uniquely global approach to organized crime and the multitude of forces that shape it in the 21st century. As well as discussing definitions of and the historical roots of organized crime, this book examines various forms of organized crime around the world in the US, Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean, Russia and Europe, Asia and Africa. This revised and updated new edition includes coverage of: the rise of the ’Ndrangheta in Italy and their global expansion; the impact of drug legalization on organized crime and the problem of methamphetamine; organ trading, money laundering, and animal poaching; changes in gang traditions and gangland penitentiaries; the decentralization of Mexican cartels, the growth of opium production in Myanmar, and the drug war in Africa; and the advancement of ISIS and the emergence of the Silk Road and the Dark Net. This book is essential reading for students engaged in the study of global and transnational organized crime, with features including chapter overviews, key terms, critical thinking questions, and case studies.