American Mafia : a history of its rise to power / Thomas Reppetto.

By: Reppetto, Thomas AMaterial type: TextTextEdition: First editionDescription: xiii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN: 0805072101; 9780805072105Subject(s): Mafia -- United States -- History | Organized crime -- United States -- History | Italian American criminals -- United States -- HistoryDDC classification: 364.1/06/0973 LOC classification: HV6446 | .R47 2004
Contents:
"We must teach these people a lesson" : a murder and lynching in New Orleans -- A place in the sun : Italian gangs of New York -- Italian squads and American carabinieri : law enforcement wars on the Mafia -- Diamond Jim : overlord of the underworld -- In the footsteps of Petrosino : Big Mike -- Prohibition : the mobs strike a bonanza -- The "Get Capone" drive : print the legend -- Lucky : the rise and rise of Charlie Luciano -- The commission : the mobs go national -- Racket-busting : the Dewey days -- The feds : assessing the menace of the Mafia -- Overreaching : Hollywood and Detroit -- The Prime Minister -- New worlds to conquer : postwar expansion -- TV's greatest hits : Senator Kefauver presents the Mafia -- Epilogue : the decline of the American Mafia.
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library
364.1060/REP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 04/26/2023 39844400120081

"A John Macrae book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"We must teach these people a lesson" : a murder and lynching in New Orleans -- A place in the sun : Italian gangs of New York -- Italian squads and American carabinieri : law enforcement wars on the Mafia -- Diamond Jim : overlord of the underworld -- In the footsteps of Petrosino : Big Mike -- Prohibition : the mobs strike a bonanza -- The "Get Capone" drive : print the legend -- Lucky : the rise and rise of Charlie Luciano -- The commission : the mobs go national -- Racket-busting : the Dewey days -- The feds : assessing the menace of the Mafia -- Overreaching : Hollywood and Detroit -- The Prime Minister -- New worlds to conquer : postwar expansion -- TV's greatest hits : Senator Kefauver presents the Mafia -- Epilogue : the decline of the American Mafia.

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