The Mob-News blog (current events in organized crime) has moved. Anyone who subscribed to the news feed or linked to the page should update the URL. The...
The Winter 2006-7 issue is especially impressive. Terrific photos and plenty of them. Excellent articles (including one by my favorite writer). If you haven't...
Thanks, Tom! Here's the lineup for the next issue, coming out in March. Rick Mattix "Handsome Jack" Klutas Comes to Iowa by Lori Hyde The Good Killers: 1921's...
A few items relating to mob books: - First, I am very happy to announce that the biography I coauthored with Martha Sheldon is now available for purchase....
Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business (Philadelphia: Running Press, 2007). Two decades after wowing us with Donnie Brasco-related revelations, former undercover...
New (April) issue of Playboy has an article by Hillel Levin titled "Boosting the Big Tuna". Based on the upcoming "Operation Family Secrets" trial, it covers...
Martha Sheldon and I soon will be heading to New Orleans, LA. We have a book discussion and signing event scheduled at the Garden District Book Shop, 2727...
I've been reading Mafia Allies: The True Story of America's Secret Alliance with the Mob in World War II by Tim Newark. The book's mentions of Joseph "Socks"...
St. Louis native Martha Macheca Sheldon, coauthor of "Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia," will discuss and sign copies of that...
I am proud to note the addition of "The Good Killers: 1921's Glimpse of the Mafia" to my American Mafia website's ( http://www.onewal.com ) articles section....
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the americanmafia group: Would you be interested in actively participating in an online "club"...
The AmericanMafia Book Club Rules and Regulations and Other Really Important-Sounding Stuff A person becomes a member of this club by: 1. Belonging to the...
As moderator for the first book club discussion, I am selecting: "War of the Godfathers" by William F. Roemer Jr. (New York: Ivy Books, 1991). ISBN=1556111932 ...
Actually, "War of the Godfathers" has always kind of irritated me because it's misled a lot of people. It's a novel and the gang war described between the...
Well, I guess that cat's out of the bag. This Roemer book does include some fictional elements (though it does officially fall into the "True Crime" category)....
... it, ... Some other questions to think about as you read: - Do you feel the author, in his introductory comments, accurately described the amount of...
Personally, I found the Roemer book to be both informative and entertaining. The problem is, I could never be sure where the dividing line was between the...
Is the "on the spot journal still being pubished? What number is out now? I thought this was a very nice item. I am looking for more info. Thank you....
On the Spot is still being published, just running a bit late this time. Summer issue will be in the mail this week. Cover features this time include a great...
By my count, the next issue will be #4 (of 4) of the periodical's first year. - Fall 2006 cover: The Bloody Barrows Come to Iowa - Winter 2006-07 cover: St....
It seems there was little else to say about "War of the Godfathers." Since Rick Mattix was the first to send a post about that book, he's entitled to select...
I thought you would be interested to learn that the American Mafia history website (www.onewal.com) is going through a makeover. I hope to have the "new and...
Hey I just wanted to stop by and introduce my self... My name is Josh I'm from Michigan... A little background about my organized crime interest... I've been...
Hi Josh. Nice to meet you. Paddy Whacked is an interesting subject, though the dialogue in the book bugs me. I'd be interested to hear your opinion of the...
Hey Tom, to answer your question... On Paddy Whacked... Its an interesting book... I'm only on the third chapter right now... I am enjoying it so far... As for...
Hi Tom and Gang, Sorry I'm late getting back -- been away for awhile. How about Thomas Repetto's "American Mafia"? It seems to me a pretty good if general...
Hello Josh, I like Kavieff's books but wish he'd went into more detail in The Purple Gang, which is maddeningly vague sometimes on dates and addresses and...
Thanks Rick, I'll have to look for his books as they come out... As for the book you co-authored... Its on my wish list on Amazon but I thought it was...
Sure, Rick, that sounds like a good one for the group. I know it has been mentioned here before. Used copies can be acquired for as little as $1 through...
