The other day I bought an issue of a Life Magazine about Mobsters and Gangsters, and in the plane I read every page of it.
It has EVERYTHING of the Mob, including biographies of the gangsters, the places they lived at, their wives, cars, guns, everything.
It covers the biographies of the most famous gangsters such as Capone, Costello, the Five Families, John Gotti, Lansky, and even the movies of the mob. It is great, I reccomend it.

Awesome, i'll have to check this out!

Hey M/C check this Life Hardcover out. You got me curious and I found this. Is yours similar?

Look at these fabulous pictures!!!

That is the one!

Outstanding photos, BK! Thanks for the link!
Notice that the charts in the Valachi photo, and the hearing room, were produced, letter-perfect, in GFII. That fanatical dedication to detail is what makes FFC great.

thanks for the link BK. that's what i have in mind also when i saw the pic Senor Turnbull. Albert Anastasia's pic is one for keeps . . .

GoodFella

Does anyone know much about this man?

Don't thank ONLY HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was the one who gave the idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The guy there is Don Ferro with his loving nephew.

No offense M/C but I was looking for a little more than what it already says in the caption!! But thank you all the same.

Vito Cascio Ferro was quite a seminal figure in Mafia history. Around 1900, he came to New Orleans (where the first Mafia family in America had been established) to build links 'twixt Sicily and America, and to open up a transoceanic heroin pipeline. Despite the long-established nature of the New Orleans Mafia, Don Vito imposed himself at its head through sheer force of personality. In fact, his notoriety, and the scary nature of the Sicilian/American alliance that he established, motivated NYC detective Joseph Petrosino to make his famous trip to Sicily, where he was murdered by three gunmen (one of them Don Vito, according to legend. This incident was portrayed in a pretty poor B-movie, "The Black Hand," with Ernest Borgnine playing Petrosino. He was also rumored to have sent Salvatore Maranzano, Joe Bonanno's patron and predecessor, to America, though Bonanno doesn't mention Don Vito in his autobiography. Like other Sicilian Mafia bigwigs, Don Vito was arrested and jailed by Mussolini. He died in prison after WWII.
BTW: I ordered that Life Magazine book from Amazon. Will offer my opinion when it arrives. Thanks for the tip, BK!

Turnbull, you beat me to it. I love Cascio Ferro, and know lots about him. I was going to post a huge info selection but... . Yes, I dont know if you said this but did you know that he had people as far as northern Italy come to his funeral? He was truely, The Don of Dons. He was an outstanding gangster and a terrible person. But you all know this now. Vito Cascio Ferro, or

Don Ferro will be remembered in Sicily for a long time.

The Don Michael Ferro

It is also said that Cascio Ferro, The Black Hand, was also the used for the Fanucci character. This is skeptical though.

The Don Mike Ferro

I bought the hardcover edition today ($19.95). It has some awesome pics I've never seen before, but knowing "Life" and its great archives it isn't surprising they'd have a good collection of Mob pics.

(Turned out to be an expensive visit to Barnes & Noble.....I also bought "The Enforcer - Spilotro: The Chicago Mob's Man Over Las Vegas" by William F Roemer, Jr. and "Made Men" (about the NJ DeCavalcantes Family) by Greg B. Smith. Looks like some good reading coming up).

I and no doubt others would be grateful if you'd post reviews of those books, SC. Thanks!

Damn SC, I got it at 13.05$ at Seattle, with no hardcover, but if I have know hardcover existed, I would have bought it for sure.
Glad you liked it.

PD: 'The Enforcer' is a movie with Humphrey Bogart called like that?
PD2: From what movie with Humphrey Bogart is your avatar from SC?

No offense M/C but I was looking for a little more than what it already says in the caption!! But thank you all the same.[/QB][/QUOTE]

Yeah, I know Joe, I could have typed the whole thing that says in the page, or even looked in the internet, but I was too lazy.

I got that issue from Life Magazine. It's definately something to check out. It talks about Dillinger, Gotti, the five families, capone, the begging of organized crime and now. Movies and shows, it's definately something worth reading from cover to cover.

Belated thanks Mr. Turnbull for the info on Ferro! I had never heard of him (nor do I recall reading about him).

If you order it off the website is it hardcover?