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Five Families
Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires | Selwyn Raab
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Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York and built the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra) into an underworld empire. Today, the Mafia is an endangered species, battered and beleaguered by aggressive investigators, incompetent leadership, betrayals and generational changes that produced violent and unreliable leaders and recruits. A twenty year assault against the five families in particular blossomed into the most successful law enforcement campaign of the last century. Selwyn Raab's Five Families is the vivid story of the rise and fall of New York's premier dons from Lucky Luciano to Paul Castellano to John Gotti and more. The book 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.
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DieAReader
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#Wardens2014 #ReadAway2024 #BookSpinBingo #20in4

What an enormous amount of information and history. I found this in equal parts absolutely fascinating & incredulous at the same time🤯 Just…WOW🤓📚

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Aylandra
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Managed to finally finish this Audiobook.
Absolutely loved it.
It jumps about a bit, as it talks about the Mafia families as entities, occasionally with certain events having overlap with th different families activities, but it keeps you right by doing short recaps if certain people haven't been mentioned in a while.
Well worth looking into if you have any interest in the American Mafia.

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Aylandra
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Currently enjoying this book as an audiobook.
I did previously know a tiny bit about the American Crime Families, but this book is fascinating.
In just 3 chapters I'm already happy to recommend it.

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LeePeckover
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Audio books have replaced music for my walking commutes to and from work. This is the longest book I've listened to so far (still about 10 hours to go!)
Anyone recommend any good audio books for when I'm done with this? - I'm open to any genre but a good narrator is crucial! #audio #audible