talking mainly the American Mob
I figured if i was to ask the question "who is the most influential American gangster" it would be Capone no question.
but since im asking mainly LCN...who would you choose as the most influential figure?
It depends on what you really mean by this question...
Which mobster was the most influential on the American mafia?, or
Which mobster was the most influential on history period.
The first question is easy to answer, Lucky Luciano. This because no one made man was responsible for bringing Cosa Nostra to the States, but one single made man was more integral to the transformation of the mafia in the United States than any other.
If you are asking the second question, that's a lot more controversial. If the question is expanded to which made man was the most influential on Cosa Nostra world wide, that's even more controversial.
Really it might have been Mussolini that drove mafiosi out of Italy into the United States where they then began to affect American culture and commerce...but Mussolini was not made.
Salvatore Maranzano figures in here somewhere, because it was he who might have created the American myth of the gentleman gangster versus the gang members they were before his attempt at unification. The gentleman gangster myth affected Hollywood movies and culture with the glorification of gangsterism eventually passing into the world of Hip Hop. This is just theoretical.
