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Re: Mafia Books
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06/02/13 07:51 PM
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Skinny, The Book you got is good but you should really check out Donnie Brasco. The book is actually about an undercover agent infiltrating the Bonnano Family in the late 1970's. It's completely realistic because it's a Federal investigation. it gives a very realistic view of the Bonnano Family and also a couple of the other Families. Check it out. You'll like it.
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Re: Mafia Books
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06/03/13 10:17 AM
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Anyone read Mob Boss yet? any good?
"You shouldn’t be embarrassed by your wealth. This contempt for money is another trick by the rich to keep the poor without it" - Michael Corleone
"You don't have to count the dead to understand the business of the Camorra" Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano
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Re: Mafia Books
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06/04/13 12:23 PM
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no sorry, I meant the D'Arco one
"You shouldn’t be embarrassed by your wealth. This contempt for money is another trick by the rich to keep the poor without it" - Michael Corleone
"You don't have to count the dead to understand the business of the Camorra" Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano
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Re: Mafia Books
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06/04/13 09:09 PM
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Nashville via Lindenhurst
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With books like "Pleasant Avenue Connection", try your local library. Most of them now participate in Worldcat ( http://npl.worldcat.org). I just found a copy in my own town at Lipscomb University. There are copies available all across the country. Just go to your library and they will inter-library loan it. =m
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Re: Mafia Books
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06/05/13 12:27 PM
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With books like "Pleasant Avenue Connection", try your local library. Most of them now participate in Worldcat ( http://npl.worldcat.org). I just found a copy in my own town at Lipscomb University. There are copies available all across the country. Just go to your library and they will inter-library loan it. =m lost my library card due to never returning any books 
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Re: Mafia Books
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06/12/13 12:32 PM
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i read Hitman last month, Carr has a hard on for Martorano..still pretty good though. Who wrote the Flemmi book?
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Re: Mafia Books
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howie carr wrote the rifleman hitman was a very good book recommend it and read the last rites about the boston war the author was real accurate im going get the rifleman soon
raymond l.s.patrairca sr to u.s. state committee- " if i didnt have my case coming up ill to come back in here with two gentlemen and when this is over with and really lay down the law, yous guys been giving me nothing but alot of hookwhick and i wish i wasnt on trial and have this case and really tell the united states whats going on "
Jerry Anguilo on wartime with winter hill - " If we got to war we got Joe Russo and the maverick boys so we have nothing to worry about they can go to vietnam and come back untouched "
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Re: Mafia Books
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06/14/13 02:25 PM
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I want to start reading up on the mafia. I am very interested in it. What books should I start off with to get a good grip on the subject? I was thinking of starting with Italian gangsters, then reading about prohibition and Jewish gangsters, then eventually Irish gangsters. Is this a good reading plan:
- Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires (Selwyn Raab)
- The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder and The Birth of the American Mafia (Mike Dash)
- Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia (John Dickie)
- The Starker: Big Jack Zelig, the Becker-Rosenthal Case, and the Advent of the Jewish Gangster (Rose Keefe)
- Mr. Capone (Robert J Schoenberg)/Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone (John Kobler) [Which one is better? Or another Capone book?]
- [Prohibition books-- maybe this?] Prohibition Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation (Mark Mappen)
- Eventually some T.J. English books
Any advice is welcome on what books (or even documentaries to watch on Netflix) to widen my gangster expertise. I haven't read all of those books so i can't comment on all of the books but you should start with five families imo.
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Re: Mafia Books
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06/18/13 05:32 PM
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john dickie: Cosa Nostra: A History Of The Sicilian Mafia
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Re: Mafia Books
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06/21/13 09:21 AM
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American desperado: story told by Jon Roberts about his involvement in drug trafficking in the 80s. The son of a new York wiseguy with a really good story. Took me a week to finish and it was an incredible read. Cocaine cowboys the movie from
2009 is based on this book. highly recommend it
Gonna start two more. Double deal : the inside story of murder, unbridled corruption, and the cop who was a mobster and GASPIPE: Confessions of a mafia boss
Will let you guys know if it's worth reading or not... Give me a week
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