FIVE FAMILIES by Raab, Selwyn

FIVE FAMILIES
by Raab, Selwyn
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For half a century, the American Mafia outwitted, outmaneuvered, and outgunned the FBI and other police agencies. Emerging as the nation's most formidable and venal crime empire, the Mafia - or Cosa Nostra - wreaked unparalleled damage to America's social fabric and vital business enterprises, from Wall Street to the construction industry. Almost every American alive today has been injured by the Mob's insatiable greed and invisible influence. It was a Mafia game plan that introduced the scourge of heroin into inner cities, provoking an epidemic of violent crime and the ruination of once-stable neighborhoods. It was Mob strategy that corrupted major labor unions, damaging the lives of thousands of honest workers, and through rigged contracts inflating the cost of homes, offices, garbage removal, clothing, food, and other basic products. The vanguard of this criminal juggernaut is still led by the Mafia's most potent and largest borgatas: New York's Five Families. Five Families is the story of the rise and fall of New York's premier dons, from Lucky Luciano to Paul Castellano to John Gotti and others. This definitive history also brings the reader right up to the possible resurgence of the Mafia as the FBI and local law-enforcement agencies turn their attention to homeland security and away from organized crime. 20-index, 765 pages, hardbound, 2005.

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