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Five Families : The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
Five Families The Rise Decline and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
Author: Selwyn Raab
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780312300944
ISBN-10: 0312300948
Publication Date: 9/1/2005
Pages: 784
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Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
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In this definitive account of royal families of Mobdom, Swlwyn Raab not only tells us where the bodies are buried, he brings them back to life. - Thomas Reppetto, author of American Mafia


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