Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires

Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York and built the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra) into an underworld empire. Today, the Mafia is an endangered species, battered and beleaguered by aggressive investigators, incompetent leadership, betrayals and generational changes that produced violent and unreliable leaders and recruits. A twenty year assault against the five families in particular blo...

By Selwyn Raab
Hardcover: 784 pages
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books; 1st edition (September 1, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312300948
ISBN-13: 978-0312300944
Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 2.2 x 9.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 281478
Format: PDF ePub TXT ebook

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Good books about the American Mafia are few and far between. Most of the ones I've found seem to be self-serving memoirs by former members and associates of organized crime, written in conjunction with professional ghost-writers. These books are okay

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