Mafia: The Government's Secret File on Organized Crime - Hardcover

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061363855 ISBN 13: 9780061363856

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2007

Synopsis

Some time in the early 1960s, during the golden age of organized crime in America--the era that would inspire The Godfather; Goodfellas, and even The Sopranos--federal investigators pulled every known piece of information on more than 800 Mafia members worldwide into a thick, phone-book-sized directory. From old-school gangsters like Lucky Luciano and Mickey Cohen to young turks like Paul Castellano and Vinny "The Chin" Gigante, the guide offered at-a-glance profiles of small-time thugs and major dons alike... and was allegedly the book Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy used to investigate the mob.

Recently discovered, and published for the first time in this facsimile edition, Mafia is a treasure trove of info on the underworld in mid-century America--a revelatory artifact and an irresistible read.

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Review:

'Read This. A remarkable document of organised crime in Sixties America, this is a replica of every known piece of information on more than 800 members of the Mafia by the US Treasury Department's Bureau of Narcotics.' The Times, Saturday 26 January --The Times, Saturday 26 January

Synopsis:

Now, in an unbelievable find, comes the long-buried Bible of the Mafia and all its most storied players, at the height of that watershed era. Some time in the early 1960s, federal investigators compiled every known piece of information on more than 800 members of organized crime in the United States-from influential old-school gangsters like Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and Frank Costello to the emerging thugs, like Joe Bonanno, Paul Castellano, and Vincent "the Chin" Gigante, who would dominate the criminal underworld in the 1960s and 1970s.Only fifty copies of this material-bound in a three-ring black binder, labelled simply MAFIA in green letters-were ever printed, and the book became the mother lode. Robert F Kennedy used to go after the Mob in his years as attorney general. One page of the book was devoted to every mobster, giving vital statistics, known aliases, family background, criminal record, and modus operandi; the result is an irresistibly browse able digest of hard facts and richly colourful details.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0061363855
• ISBN 13: 9780061363856
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 944