Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia EmpiresMacmillan, 2014 M05 13 - 784 pages 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. |
Contents
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5 Dirty Thirties | 35 |
6 Runaway Jury | 44 |
7 Unlucky Lucky | 50 |
8 Prime Minister | 58 |
35 Hes Like Robin Hood | 397 |
36 Mrs Cirellis Holiday | 416 |
37 I Want to Switch Governments | 431 |
38 Bitter Aftermath | 443 |
39 SelfWorship | 454 |
40 Gaspipe | 469 |
41 Blood Purge | 478 |
42 The Professor and Fat Pete | 491 |
9 Murder Inc | 66 |
10 A Profitable War | 74 |
11 Serene Times | 81 |
12 Wake Up America | 96 |
13 Heroin and Apalachin | 108 |
14 Death of a President | 125 |
15 The Ring of Truth | 139 |
16 A Splendid Band The Mob | 155 |
17 The Birth of RICO | 171 |
18 Unity Day | 184 |
19 Ubazze and Lilo | 193 |
20 The FBI Wises Up | 209 |
21 The Big Boys | 223 |
22 Operation Jaguar | 235 |
23 Planting Season | 246 |
24 This Is It | 256 |
25 The Curtain Rises | 270 |
26 The Concrete Club | 285 |
27 Far from Finished | 300 |
28 Turning Point | 309 |
29 Snake Charmer | 321 |
30 Carmines War | 332 |
31 Dynasty | 344 |
32 A Hell of a Legacy | 350 |
33 QuackQuack | 363 |
34 Shame on Them | 379 |
43 Tumacs Turn | 502 |
44 455 Years in Prison | 510 |
45 Team America | 526 |
46 The Pajama Game | 531 |
47 Psychological Warfare | 540 |
48 The Real Boss | 554 |
49 Chins Millions | 564 |
50 I Know Where Bodies Are Buried | 574 |
51 Brought to Bay | 585 |
52 Chins Last Hurrah | 596 |
53 Nothing Magical Forensic Accounting | 601 |
54 You Did a Good Job Louie | 604 |
55 GoodLooking Sal | 615 |
56 The Mobs Horatio Alger | 624 |
57 The Genial Godfather aka The Ear | 637 |
58 Mafia Groupies | 653 |
59 Divide and Conquer | 665 |
60 The Domino Syndrome | 673 |
Afterword Back to the Caves | 689 |
Appendix A Family Trees | 709 |
Appendix B Mafia Boss Succession | 712 |
Principal Sources and References | 715 |
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Five Families: The Rise, Decline and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful ... Selwyn Raab No preview available - 2006 |