Description: Synopsis: The New York Times bestseller chronicling the history of NYC's infamous five mafia families is now the basis for the upcoming The HISTORY® Channel documentary series American Godfathers: The Five Families. For half a century, the American Mafia outwitted, outmaneuvered, and outgunned the FBI and other police agencies, wreaking unparalleled damage on 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 others. 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. This updated tenth-anniversary edition features a new preface by the author., The New York Times bestseller chronicling the history of NYC's infamous five mafia families is now the basis for the upcoming The HISTORY(R) Channel documentary series American Godfathers: The Five Families. For half a century, the American Mafia outwitted, outmaneuvered, and outgunned the FBI and other police agencies, wreaking unparalleled damage on America's social fabric and business enterprises while emerging as the nation's most formidable crime empire.
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Book Title: Five Families : The Rise, Decline, Resurgence of America's Mafia
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Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Item Length: 9.2 in
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Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Edition: 10
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Publication Year: 2016
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 2.2 in
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Author: Selwyn Raab, Five Families- rise of Mafia empires
Genre: True Crime, History
Topic: Organized Crime, Mafia, Mafia Families
Item Weight: 31.4 Oz
Item Width: 6.3 in
Number of Pages: 816 Pages
