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The First Family
Before the notorious Five Families dominated U.S. organized crime, there was the one-fingered criminal genius Giuseppe Morello and his lethal coterie. Combining first-rate scholarship and pulse-quickening action, Mike Dash brings to life this little-known story, following the rise of the Mafia in America from the 1890s to the 1920s, from the villages of Sicily to the streets of Little Italy. Using an array of primary sources—hitherto untapped Secret Service archives, prison records, and interviews with surviving family members—Dash has written a groundbreaking account of the crucial period when the criminal underworld exploded with fury across the nation.
Reviewer: Bob Walch
Review: Nov 29, 2010
Genre(s): Suspense, Nonfiction, History
This is the story of terror, extortion, revenge, murder and the birth of the American Mafia. The book’s focus is on the years between 1892 and 1930 when the American branch the crime fraternity was getting a foothold in the United States.
Rooted in primary sources that include records from the U.S. Secret Service, the New York bureau of which kept the Mafiosi under systematic surveillance, this history
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