Five Families by Selwyn Raab
$7.99
Five Families
- The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
- By: Selwyn Raab
- Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
- Length: 33 hrs and 54 mins
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, True Crime
Publisher's Summary
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, unreliable leaders and recruits. A 20-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 listener 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.
©2005 Selwyn Raab (P)2015 Tantor
Zac
Great history.
Very good telling of the entire history of the American mafia. The book details every major event in the history of the American mafia, from their humble beginnings at the turn of the century, all the way to their near eradication at the hands of the federal government in the early 2000’s.
roger
hard to follow
The writer of this book kept chopping and repeating the same story I found it very hard to follow and did not finish