American Mafia
Subtitle: A History of Its Rise to Power
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Published: December 9, 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780805077988
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Organized Crime; True crime; United States - 20th Century; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; USA; Criminology; United States - 19th Century; True Crime / Organized Crime
First sentence: One drizzly night in October of 1890, New Orleans police chief David Hennessy was walking home late with his friend William O'Connor.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : "The most secret and terrible organization in the world"; title: "We must teach these people a lesson" : a murder and lynching in New Orleans; title: A place in the sun : Italian gangs of New York; title: Italian squads and American carabinieri : law enforcement wars on the Mafia; title: Diamond Jim : overlord of the underworld; title: In the footsteps of Petrosino : Big Mike; title: Prohibition : the mobs strike a bonanza; title: The "Get Capone" drive : print the legend; title: Lucky : the rise and rise of Charlie Luciano; title: The commission : the mobs go national; title: Racket-busting : the Dewey days; title: The feds : assessing the menace of the Mafia; title: Overreaching : Hollywood and Detroit; title: The Prime Minister; title: New worlds to conquer : postwar expansion; title: TV's greatest hits : Senator Kefauver presents the Mafia; title: Epilogue : The decline of the American Mafia