The mob and the city : the hidden history of how the mafia captured New York
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Prometheus Books,
Amherst, NY :
2014.
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
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- ISBN: 9781616149239 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: 382 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmprint
- Publisher: Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books, 2014.
- General Note: Maps on lining papers.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-360) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note: Foreword / by Dr. James B. Jacobs -- Introduction: the godfather vs. New York history -- A city built for the mob -- Prohibition and the rise of the Sicilians -- The mafia rebellion of 1928-31 and the fall of the boss of bosses -- The racketeer cometh : how the mob infiltrated labor unions -- The mafia and the drug trade -- The mob nightlife -- The lives of wiseguys -- Mouthpieces for the mob : crooked cops, mob lawyers, and prosecutors -- The assassinations of 1957 -- Apalachin -- Conclusion: New York's mafia -- Acknowledgments -- Select bibliography -- Notes.