Mafia: The Government's Secret File on Organized Crime
Description : Some time in the early 1960s, during the golden age of organized crime in America&#8212th era that would inspire The Godfather Goodfellas, and even The Sopranos&#8212feeral investigators pulled every known piece of information on more than 800 Mafia members worldwide into a thick, phone-book-sized directory. From old-school gangsters like Lucky Luciano and Mickey Cohen to young turks like Paul Castellano and Vinny &quotTheChin&quotGigante, the guide offered at-a-glance profiles of small-time thugs and major dons alike... and was allegedly the book Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy used to investigate the mob.Recently discovered, and published for the first time in this facsimile edition, Mafia is a treasure trove of info on the underworld in mid-century America&#8212arevelatory artifact and an irresistible read.