Best Edition Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires with FREE MOBI EDITION Download Now!

Special Edition Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires with FREE EASY Reading Download Now!

 4,7

Related Ebook :

Read PDF Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture with FREE PDF EDITION Download Now!

Read Mobi Hitler: Ascent: 1889-1939 with Free MOBI EDITION Download Now!

Read Best Edition The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness with Free PDF EDITION Download Now!

Read PDF Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America with FREE PDF EDITION Download Now!

Read Special Edition The New Rules of Marriage with FREE MOBI EDITION Download Now!

Read Special Edition Columbine with FREE EASY Reading Download Now!

Read PDF How I Saved the World with FREE MOBI EDITION Download Now!

Read Mobi Into Thin Air with FREE PDF EDITION Download Now!

Read Mobi HumanKind: Changing the World One Small Act At a Time with FREE PDF EDITION Download Now!

Read Mobi One Summer with Free MOBI EDITION Download Now!

Special Edition Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires with FREE EASY Reading Download Now!

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.

At this time of writing, The Mobi Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires has garnered 10 customer reviews with rating of 5 out of 5 stars. Not a bad score at all as if you round it off, it’s actually a perfect TEN already. From the looks of that rating, we can say the Mobi is Good TO READ!

Special Edition Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires with FREE EASY Reading!

Good books about the American Mafia are few and far between. Most of the ones I've found seem to be self-serving memoirs by former members and associates of organized crime, written in conjunction with professional ghost-writers. These books are okay, but don't really provide me with what I want: a good, solid, informative history of the American Mob and the efforts of law enforcement agencies to eradicate it.I recently discovered just such a book: "Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires" by Selwyn Raab. Here is a definitive history of the five great crime "families" of New York, written by a former "New York Times" investigative reporter who is also one of the foremost recognized authorities on organized crime in America.In "Five Families," Raab traces the rise and decline of the five most powerful and influential crime borgatas in the United States - so-called "families" named after their most famous bosses: Bonanno, Columbo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese. These five Cosa Nostra "families" gradually became so powerful that they essentially ruled nearly all of American organized crime from the early 1930s until the 1990s, when their influence was severely diminished by the concerted efforts of local, state, and Federal investigators and prosecutors.These families were initially organized in 1931 by Charles "Lucky" Luciano, who was, at the time, one of the most notorious gangsters in America. Luciano proposed dividing criminal enterprises in New York City into five "families," with a governing "commission" of bosses. Each borgata would be organized into crews led by "caporegimes," or "capos." There was also a body of strict rules by which all members would live.Raab points out that for nearly six decades, The Five Families' criminal enterprises ran practically unchallenged in New York. Their power and influence gradually expanded into Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and other major American cities. It was estimated that, during the Five Families' heyday in the 1970s and '80s, billions of dollars were illegally diverted from the American economy through criminal activities that included gambling, loan-sharking, extortion, drug trafficking, fraud, hijacking, robbery, kidnapping, and murder.Raab also traces the efforts of state, local, and Federal law enforcement agencies to bring the Five Families to justice. A heroic and dogged group of investigators and prosecutors, most notably FBI Special Agent Joseph D. Pistone (of "Donnie Brasco" fame) and U.S. Attorneys Rudolph Giuliani and Michael Chertoff, used provisions of the newly enacted Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act to indict, convict, and sentence to long prison terms many of the Five Families' most powerful and notorious gangsters.I found "Five Families" one of the most fascinating books I've read in a long time. The book is packed with information that's presented in an easy to read and understand manner. Selwyn Raab is obviously a gifted writer whose style drew me in from the book's first paragraph.It's unfortunate that the Kindle version of "Five Families" is of such poor quality that it seriously distracts from Raab's outstanding research and writing skills. Nearly every page of the Kindle version contains serious typographical errors like wrongly italicized words, incorrect punctuation, and even misspelled words. These errors occur frequently enough for me to deduct one star from my otherwise five-star rating. They all should have been eliminated by more careful proof-reading and editing.Despite this serious technical flaw, "Five Families" is an important addition to the literature of organized crime, and should not be missed. Highly recommended.

Related Ebook :

Read Special Edition Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis with Free MOBI EDITION Download Now!

Read Mobi Left of Bang: How the Marine Corps' Combat Hunter Program Can Save Your Life with Free MOBI EDITION Download Now!

Read Special Edition Tying the Noose: Felicity Philips Investigates Book 2 with FREE EASY Reading Download Now!

Read Best Edition Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Emotional Eating: Set yourself free from binge-eating and comfort-eating (Allen Carr's Easyway Book 91) with FREE PDF EDITION Download Now!

Read PDF The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You've Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended with FREE EASY Reading Download Now!

Read Special Edition A Child Called It: A true story of one little boy's determination to survive with Free MOBI EDITION Download Now!

Read Best Edition How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety with Free EASY Reading Download Now!

Read Mobi Get Rich, Lucky Bitch: Release Your Money Blocks and Live a First-Class Life with Free PDF EDITION Download Now!

Read PDF We're Pregnant! The First Time Dad's Pregnancy Handbook (First-Time Dads) with Free PDF EDITION Download Now!

Read Best Edition Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West with FREE MOBI EDITION Download Now!