| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
411 pages : maps ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
1: The rise -- Why the Mafia developed -- What the Mafia had to offer -- An offer not to be refused -- Portrait of a Godfather -- A Republic within a kingdom -- Exodus to L'America -- Mussolini and the Mafia -- Prohibition and profits -- Crime gets organised -- Liberation, American-style -- Salvatore Giuliano -- The unholy alliance -- The Mafia comes to the city -- 2: The Zenith -- The American Cosa Nostra -- How the Mafia moved on to drugs -- Lucky Luciano's summit -- How the French Connection became Sicilian -- The first cracks appear -- Corleone - The Mafia Heartland -- How the Mafia laundered money -- Why the Vatican needed a bank -- The death of a Pope -- Propaganda Massonica due -- The man who duped the Vatican -- Death of God's banker -- 3: The fall -- The Mafia Civil War -- The Magistrates -- The breakthrough -- Revenge -- The politicians -- War on the state -- Pax Mafiosa -- Berlusconi and the Mafia -- Sicily today. |
| Summary |
Exhaustive research and interviews detail the story of the rise and fall of the Sicilian Mafia and its links with the Cosa Nostra in American. |
| Subject |
Mafia -- Italy -- Sicily -- History.
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Mafia -- Political aspects -- Italy -- Sicily -- History.
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| ISBN |
9780312646585 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0312646585 hardcover alkaline paper |
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