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Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
By Selwyn RaabFrom $21.99 USD
Selwyn Raab spent thirty years covering organised crime for the New York Times. Five Families traces the Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese, Bonanno, and Colombo families from Prohibition through the RICO era and the post-2000 resurgence. The closest English-language work to a one-volume textbook on the American mafia.
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📄 768 pages⏱ ~6 hr read📅 2006
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Selwyn Raab spent thirty years covering organised crime for the New York Times. Five Families traces the Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese, Bonanno, and Colombo families from Prohibition through the RICO era and the post-2000 resurgence. The closest English-language work to a one-volume textbook on the American mafia.
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