Forget what you think you know about the Mafia. After reading
this book, even life-long mob aficionados will have a new perspective
on organized crime.
Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first
full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history
of how the Mafia came to dominate organized crime in New York City
during the 1930s through 1950s. Based on exhaustive research of
archives and secret files obtained through the Freedom of Information
Act, author and attorney C. Alexander Hortis draws on the deepest
collection of primary sources, many newly discovered, of any history of
the modern mob.
Shattering myths, Hortis reveals how Cosa Nostra actually obtained
power at the inception. The author goes beyond conventional
who-shot-who mob stories, providing answers to fresh questions such
as:
* Why did the Sicilian gangs come out on top of the criminal
underworld?
* Can economics explain how the Mafia families operated?
* What was the Mafia's real role in the drug trade?
* Why was Cosa Nostra involved in gay bars in New York since the
1930s?
Drawing on an unprecedented array of primary sources, The Mob and the
City is the most thorough and authentic history of the Mafia's rise to
power in the early-to-mid twentieth century.
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