American Mafia by Thomas Reppetto
A concise, panoramic history tracing the rise and evolution of Italian-American organized crime from immigrant street gangs to a national syndicate, profiling major figures and families, the growth of enterprises such as bootlegging, gambling, labor racketeering and narcotics, and the ways mobsters infiltrated unions, business and politics; it separates myth from reality while detailing law‑enforcement responses, internal codes and violence, and how changing legal tools and prosecutions ultimately weakened the organization’s hold.
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