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Now Thomas Reppetto provides a balanced history of the Mafia's rise--from the 1880s to the post-WI era--that is as exciting and readable as it is authoritative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStructuring his narrative around a series of case histories featuring such infamous characters as Lucky Luciano and Al Capone, Reppetto draws on a lifetime of field experience and access to unseen documents to show us a locally grown Mafia. It wasn't until the 1920s, thanks to Prohibition, that the Mafia assumed what we now consider its defining characteristics, especially its octopuslike tendency to infiltrate industry and government. 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In this fascinating sequel, he follows the mob from its peak into a shadowy period of decline as the government, no longer able to deny its existence, made subduing the Mafia a matter of national priority. Reppetto draws on a lifetime of field experience to tell the stories of the Mafia's twentieth-century leadership, showing how men such as Sam Giancana and John Gotti became household names. Crusaders like Robert Kennedy led concerted - if sometimes sporadic - attacks against organized crime. As the battles between the feds and the Mafia moved from the streets to the courtrooms, Reppetto describes how it came to resemble a conflict between sovereign powers. In direct, shoot-from-the-hip prose, Reppetto chronicles a turning point in American Mafia history, and offers the provocative theory that, given the right formula of connections and shrewd business, a new generation of multinational criminals may be poised to take up the Mafia's mantle.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49676615024913,"sku":"CIN0805078029G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50513819369745,"sku":"GOR004977608","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50520368218385,"sku":"GOR006819406","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50752945422609,"sku":"CIN0805078029VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0805078029.jpg?v=1751296480"},{"product_id":"american-mafia-book-thomas-reppetto-9780805072105","title":"American Mafia","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49758194893073,"sku":"GOR008633592","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49898220683537,"sku":"CIN0805072101G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50124832768273,"sku":"CIN0805072101VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50420458488081,"sku":"CIN0805072101A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51854555349265,"sku":"GOR003766392","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0805072101.jpg?v=1751329532"},{"product_id":"bringing-down-the-mob-book-thomas-reppetto-9780805086591","title":"Bringing Down the Mob","description":"In his critically acclaimed \"American Mafia\", Thomas Reppetto revealed the details of organized crime's ascendancy in America. 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