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Sep 3, 2013 · Marc Mappen has written a book about Prohibition gangsters -- men who were involved in the underworld of crime that flourished during Prohibition, which lasted from 1919 to 1933. Mappen is a former dean at Rutgers and retired director of the New Jersey Historical Commission.
Jan 2, 2024 · NPR's A Martinez talks to Louis Ferrante about the first volume of his Borgata trilogy on the history of the American Mafia. Ferrante is a former high-ranking member of the Gambino crime family.
- Casino
- Wiseguy
- Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in The Mafia
- Underboss: Sammy The Bull Gravano's Story of Life in The Mafia
- The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob
- Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend
- Capone: The Man and The Era
- For The Sins of My Father: A Mafia Killer, His Son, and The Legacy of A Mob Life
- Cosa Nostra: A History of The Sicilian Mafia
- Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down A Mafia Family
Written by: Nicholas Pileggi Published: October 1st, 1995 Pages: 293 The book Casinoby Nicholas Pileggi is a true story about mobster life in Las Vegas. It follows Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal and his childhood friend, Tony Spilotro. This book provides an inside look at how organized crime brought violence to Las Vegas during the 1970s-1990s while chang...
Written by: Nicholas Pileggi Published: 1985 Pages: 320 Henry Hill grew up in Brooklyn with nothing and became a member of the famous mafia organization, Lucchese crime family. Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi is Hill's memoir about his time as a mobster for almost twenty years before being arrested and sent to prison. This book includes stories about m...
Written by: Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley Published: January 29th, 1988 Pages: 373 The book tells the true story of Donnie Brasco, an alias used by Joseph D. Pistone while undercover with the mafia for six years during his time with the FBI. While working as an agent, he was able to get inside the infamous Bonanno crime family and become one o...
Written by: Peter Maas Published: December 1st, 1997 Pages: 308 Underboss is a book about the life of Salvatore Gravano, also known as Sammy the Bull. He was a mafia hitman who confessed to 19 murders and was most likely involved in several others. This book tells his story about how he became a criminal and what it felt like when he decided to tur...
Written by: TJ English Published: March 15th, 1991 Pages: 416 TJ English's The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mobis a well-researched and detailed account of the rise and fall of one of America's most powerful organized crime gangs, the Irish mob in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City. From the 1960s to its demise in 1988, The Westies were involved in ...
Written by: Deirdre Bair Published: October 25th, 2016 Pages: 432 One of the reasons this is one of the best Mafia books about Al Capone is that it was written with the help of his family. They offered a look inside rare documents, family archives, and personal stories that had not been heard before. The book starts with Capone's birth in Brooklyn ...
Written by: Laurence Bergreen Published: August 5th, 1996 Pages: 704 The 1920s was a time of prohibition, bootlegging, and violence. The decade also saw the rise of gangsters like Al Capone, who became the most infamous criminal in American history. Author Laurence Bergreen takes readers on an unforgettable journey to explore this era with his book...
Written by: Albert Demeo, Mary Jane Ross Published: September 24th, 2002 Pages: 288 Albert Demeo is the son of one of the most notable killers in the Gambino crime family, Roy Demeo. Al grew up looking up to this father. They lived in an expensive house with everything they ever wanted, but Al never quite knew where the money came from. When he was...
Written by: John Dickie Published: November 1st, 2004 Pages: 370 The Sicilian Mafia, better known as Cosa Nostra, is one of the most notorious criminal organizations in the world. This book by John Dickie covers this topic in-depth and provides insights into how it has grown to be so powerful over time. It will take you through its origins in rural...
Written by: Joaquín "Jack" García, Michael Levin Published: October 13th, 2008 Pages: 272 Joaquin "Jack" Garcia was an FBI agent that went from humble beginnings to infiltrate the Gambino crime family. This book will take you through his early life in Cuba, his family's escape to the US when he was only nine years old, and through his time in colle...
Meyer Lansky (born Maier Suchowljansky; [1] July 4, 1902 – January 15, 1983), known as the "Mob's Accountant", was an American organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate in the United States.
Oct 4, 2021 · From the early days of the clandestine Murder, Inc., which was effectively a subcontractor for New York’s Five Families from the 1920s through the 1940s, to the rise of John Gotti and his underboss and Gambino hitman Sammy Gravano, mafia hitmen have held disproportionate power in their families.
John Joseph Gotti Jr.[1][note 1] (/ ˈɡɒti / GOT-ee, Italian: [ˈɡɔtti]; October 27, 1940 – June 10, 2002) was an American mafioso and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City.
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Apr 23, 2017 · Before the Mafia captured the American crime spotlight in the 1920s, there was the Society of the Black Hand, which made ends meet by terrorizing and extorting fellow Italians, mainly,...
