Title: Fighting the Mafia and renewing Sicilian culture /
Authors: Orlando, Leoluca.
Publisher: Encounter Books,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Orlando, Leoluca.; Partito della democrazia cristiana Biography.; Mafia Italy Palermo; Mayors Italy Palermo Biography.; Palermo (Italy) Politics and government
Abstract: "Growing up in an aristocratic Palermo family that seems almost to have stepped from the pages of The Leopard, Leoluca Orlando came of age at the exact moment that a new and particularly vicious Mafia sect, centered in the town of Corleone, was making its appearance. Fueled by profits from the international heroin trade, this mafia gangsteristica embarked on a reign of terror that made Sicily into an Italian Lebanon and filled the international press with pictures of bloody bodies - not just those of Mafia rivals of the Corleonesi, but of police and government officials as well."