Mafia Republic by John Dickie
The author of the bestselling COSA NOSTRA and MAFIA BROTHERHOODS explores the terrifying consequences of the rise of the Italian mafias.
John Dickie combines narrative skills in his description of skulduggery with excellent pen portraits of striking individuals..no one anywhere writes with such authority on Italy's criminal gangs. * Times Literary Supplement *
Chilling and eye-opening. -- Bill Emmott * The Times *
'I've been so unsettled by John Dickie's Mafia Republic - his angry and moving new history of the power of the Italian criminal fraternities since the Second World War.' -- Samira Ahmed * Big Issue *
REVIEWS FOR MAFIA BROTHERHOODS: * . *
His narrative bowls along, powered by the sort of muscular prose one associates with great detective fiction. An exhilarating history. * Financial Times *
'Exciting and well-written... like a 19th-century Sopranos'. * Shortlist *
'Fine social history and hair-raising true crime'. * Independent *
By shining a light so powerfully into the darkest recesses of mafia mythology and history, Dickie's new book will certainly provide a concrete tool in the anti-mafia struggle to which many Italians and Calabrians in Australia and Italy are passionately committed. * Australian Literary Review *
Magisterial ... absorbing. * Scotsman *
BLOOD BROTHERHOODS is almost certainly the most ambitious true-crime assignment ever. The result is a stunning success: a sprawling, powerful historical narrative that is the definitive story of Sicily's Mafia, the Camorra of Naples, and Calabria's 'Ndrangheta. * The Adelaide Advertiser *
Yet Dickie thinks there are "more reasons for optimism today than at any point in the past"... it's a point well made. * Financial Times *
Chilling and eye-opening. -- Bill Emmott * The Times *
'I've been so unsettled by John Dickie's Mafia Republic - his angry and moving new history of the power of the Italian criminal fraternities since the Second World War.' -- Samira Ahmed * Big Issue *
REVIEWS FOR MAFIA BROTHERHOODS: * . *
His narrative bowls along, powered by the sort of muscular prose one associates with great detective fiction. An exhilarating history. * Financial Times *
'Exciting and well-written... like a 19th-century Sopranos'. * Shortlist *
'Fine social history and hair-raising true crime'. * Independent *
By shining a light so powerfully into the darkest recesses of mafia mythology and history, Dickie's new book will certainly provide a concrete tool in the anti-mafia struggle to which many Italians and Calabrians in Australia and Italy are passionately committed. * Australian Literary Review *
Magisterial ... absorbing. * Scotsman *
BLOOD BROTHERHOODS is almost certainly the most ambitious true-crime assignment ever. The result is a stunning success: a sprawling, powerful historical narrative that is the definitive story of Sicily's Mafia, the Camorra of Naples, and Calabria's 'Ndrangheta. * The Adelaide Advertiser *
Yet Dickie thinks there are "more reasons for optimism today than at any point in the past"... it's a point well made. * Financial Times *
John Dickie is Professor of Italian Studies at University College London. In 2004 he published Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia, to ecstatic reviews. It became an international bestseller, with over 20 translations, and won the CWA Dagger Award for non-fiction that year. Since then he has published Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and their Food (2007), which was made into a TV series for HIstory Channel Italia and other networks worldwide. He is also the author of Mafia Brotherhoods (2011) and Mafia Republic: Italy's Criminal Curse (2013). In 2005 the President of the Italian Republic appointed him a Commendatore dell'Ordine della Stella della Solidarieta Italiana.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781444726411 |
| ISBN 10 | 1444726412 |
| Title | Mafia Republic |
| Author | John Dickie |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 2014-02-13 |
| Number of pages | 560 |
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