description: In shocking and compelling detail, Stephen Fox tells the stories of America's crime families - who killed whom in the pursuit of power. He writes, of course, of the Mafia and of the Irish mobsters who specialized in politics and labor, the Jews who cornered gambling and financial manipulation, the Asian, Latin, and Jamaican drug gangs of the 1980's. The pervasiveness of organized crime in American life - from Hollywood studios to sports arenas, from Roosevelt oval office to the book depository in Dallas in 1963 - is brought figures who silently condoned criminal activities into the roles of crime-fighters. Measuring familiar myths against revealing new evidence, Blood and Power is the ultimate chronicle of America's criminal life in this century.
language: English
title: Blood & Power: Organized Crime in Twentieth-Century America
titlecomplete: Blood & Power: Organized Crime in Twentieth-Century America
genres: True Crime, History
ratings_count: 12
publisher: Random House Value Publishing