Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia - Softcover

Hunt, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595414168 ISBN 13: 9780595414161

Publisher: iUniverse, 2007

Synopsis

Set in the Gilded Age of New Orleans, the historical biography Deep Water:Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia establishes thefactual details of Macheca's epic life story, the assassination of Police ChiefDavid Hennessy and the Crescent City lynchings."An excellent, meticulously detailed ... account of the birth of the AmericanMafia and a wonderful study of New Orleans from the CivilWar/Reconstruction periods up through the famous mass lynching.Macheca comes across as a fascinating rogue. Deep Water ... shows amarvelous objectivity."-Rick Mattix, coauthor, The Complete Public Enemy Almanac"A memorable reading experience... This book will force a reassessment ofa famous event in the history of American organized crime."-Dr. Peter Dale Scott, author, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK"Very interesting and informative. I was also happy to see my own prejudiceconfirmed: the Hennessy murder emerges out of the turbid racial andpolitical situation in the city."-James Fentress, author, Rebels and Mafiosi

About this title

About the Author

Thomas Hunt, veteran journalist andpublisher of an American Mafia Website, lives in Connecticut with his wifeand three children.Martha Sheldon, Macheca descendantand St. Louis resident, is an authority onher family history. Telling this story hasbeen her obsession for more than adecade.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0595414168
• ISBN 13: 9780595414161
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 410