Five Families : The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires – Selwyn Raab

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Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York and built the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra) into an underworld empire. Today, the Mafia is an endangered species, battered and beleaguered by aggressive investigators, incompetent leadership, betrayals and generational changes that produced violent and unreliable leaders and recruits. A twenty year assault against the five families in particular blossomed into the most successful law enforcement campaign of the last century. 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. The book also 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.

Book : Hardcover, mint, dust wrapper mint, and fantastic used copied, pages still white fresh and clean with NO inscriptions of previous owner, solid binding, great spine. A copy “like new”

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SKU: 9780312300944 Category: Title: Five Families : The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
Author: Selwyn Raab
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Year: 2005
ISBN10: 0312300948
ISBN13: 9780312300944
Condition: Fine
Format: Hardcover
Inventory No: 1201

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Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York and built the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra) into an underworld empire. Today, the Mafia is an endangered species, battered and beleaguered by aggressive investigators, incompetent leadership, betrayals and generational changes that produced violent and unreliable leaders and recruits. A twenty year assault against the five families in particular blossomed into the most successful law enforcement campaign of the last century. 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. The book also 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.

Book : Hardcover, mint, dust wrapper mint, and fantastic used copied, pages still white fresh and clean with NO inscriptions of previous owner, solid binding, great spine. A copy “like new”

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Weight 1.17 kg
Dimensions 23.8 × 16.7 × 5.4 cm

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