Just received my copy of Mafia: United States Treasury Department Bureau of Narcotics today and wanted to share my first impressions. The book, supposedly a...
Ran a little late this time but the Fall 2007 issue of On the Spot just went out a couple of days ago. No Mafia material this time as the entire issue is...
Contrary to what one pseudonymous reviewer posted on Amazon recently, I am not the same person as Richard J. Shmelter and have never authored a biography of...
Not really Mafia-oriented (although my recent book has some Mafia material in it) but this may be of interest to any here who are in the southern Missouri area...
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jp_stl_mo
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Nov 27, 2007 11:39 am
I don't mean to be butting in here (I just came across this board), but I have a question in regard to the book by Nicola Gentile. How is that so many...
There are some copies of Vita di Capomafia around, though not many because libraries in the U.S. tend to collect books written in English. You should be able...
Thanks for the reply. Very informative. I guess I'll try that interlibrary loan. I've never tried that before, but I'll give it a shot. Now that you mention...
Now, as for "War of the Godfathers," I've had that book for years and I never was able to finish it. It just got boring, and being that it's a work of...
You're welcome. That's why I get the big bucks. I have suspicions that some Gentile information might have been fed to Valachi before the book was published....
I'm interested to hear any/all thoughts on the book, The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano, by Martin A. Gosch and Richard Hammer. I understand we could be...
Tom,i think Luciano spoke several times to the author & so parts of this book ring true.But other parts are pure fiction,including,i believe,Luciano describing...
Thanks, Will. I believe you are right. There must have been conversations between Gosch and Luciano. And some of Luciano's observations - perhaps some of his...
The press release below relates to The Mafia and the Machine, a book about the Kansas City underworld, scheduled to be released in January. - Tom = = = = = ...
Missouri underworld history is finally getting the attention it deserves. In addition to "The Mafia and the Machine," a book about the Kansas City Mafia that...
In the book "The Rise of the Mafia in New York" by Giuseppe Selvaggi, the author quotes extensively from interviews held with a man identified only by the...
OK. It seems to me that Joe Adonis (originally Giuseppe Doto) fits the description of Selvaggi's Zio Trestelle reasonably well. Adonis reportedly entered the...
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mikeumbers
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Jan 1, 2008 3:31 pm
Organized crime, particularly the Genovese and Gambino crime families, have controlled gay bars in New York City for the last century. The following website...
Organized crime, particularly the Genovese and Gambino crime families, have owned and operated gay bars in New York City for much of the last century, and I...
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Ryan
ryan_12177@...
Jan 1, 2008 3:33 pm
Masseria served ... I've never seen anything that has Masseria ever serving under Terranova. I think a lot of that confusion comes into play because people...
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Ryan
ryan_12177@...
Jan 1, 2008 3:34 pm
I've always taken the stories of a feud between Diamond and Schultz with a grain of salt, especially when reading the news paper accounts of that day. The NY...
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Ryan
ryan_12177@...
Jan 1, 2008 3:35 pm
Thomas are you from Baltimore? I just moved from Baltimore a little over a year ago but lived there the first 3 years of my life....
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Ryan
ryan_12177@...
Jan 1, 2008 3:35 pm
Everyone should pick up Mafia.. it was the NArcotics bureau's bible on the Mafia in the early 1960's and the original files have been taken and put into a book...
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Ryan
ryan_12177@...
Jan 1, 2008 3:35 pm
By all accounts Luciano did settle down of sorts in Italy to a woman that dies of cancer a loss that deeply effected him in his later years....
The book "Mafia" contains some interesting info and a number of rare mugshot photos. But, personally, I felt it was a let-down. Rather than provide any sort of...
No, I'm not from Baltimore. I was born in the Bronx, NY, and grew up there through the first dozen years of my life. I have been in Connecticut ever since. - T...
Thanks for your post. I think your concept here is correct, but I think your wording might leave readers with a misunderstanding. It seems to me that the East...
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Ryan
ryan_12177@...
Jan 1, 2008 11:57 pm
I agree that the two seperate Camorra groups were definitly not one cohesive gang. I also find it somewhat bothersome that many report those groups to have...
What exactly do you mean by "user friendly"? The book is easy to navigate through. It has a thorough index -- you could probably more appropiately call it a...
Dear J.P. Actually, I only scratched the surface of my objections to the Federal Bureau of Narcotics book. (But, please, understand that I do value the book as...
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Ryan
ryan_12177@...
Jan 2, 2008 6:04 pm
I don't get the complaint about the break down by state in regards to Italy and Florida. My only complaint as that they have a picture of the other Tony ...
