Five Families
The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
by Selwyn Raab
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For half a century, the American Mafia outwitted, outmaneuvered, and outgunned the FBI and other police agencies, wreaking unparalleled damages to America's social fabric and business enterprises while emerging as the nation's most formidable crime empire. The vanguard of this criminal juggernaut is still led by the Mafia's most potent and largest borgatas: New York's Five Families. Five Families is the vivid story of the rise and fall of New York's premier dons from Lucky Luciano to Paul Castellano to John Gotti and more. This definitive history brings the reader right up to the possible resurgence of the Mafia as the FBI and local law-enforcement agencies turn their attention to homeland security and away from organized crime.
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Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
Oct 04, 2016, A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin
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Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
2014, St. Martin's Press
in English
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Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
September 5, 2006, St. Martin's Griffin
Paperback
in English
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Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
August 25, 2005, Thomas Dunne Books
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in English
0312300948 9780312300944
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