Bonanno, by some cases, was quite an arrogant man with a self-inflated image of himself. He tried to promote his idiot son (much like how Gotti promoted his "Dumbfella" son to underboss in the 1990s) to the position of consigliere, tried to pose himself as a "man of honor" by deliberately ignoring Galante's name despite Galante being his underboss in the 1950s and 1960s (Galante was a very vicious guy and a known drug trafficker, hence it could be the main reason why his name was deliberately in Bonanno's tell-all book and almost zero mention in his interview).

He also tried to have Gambino, Lucchese and Magaddino whacked so he could become boss of all bosses, but hey, the plot failed when Colombo spilled the beans to Gambino & Lucchese. Hence, the book could be a big reason why he was loathed by many mobsters in NYC, even more so than after he and his son were shipped off to Tucson in 1968. It's also possible that he wrote this book to get his revenge on the Commission and give them an "up-yours", which stripped him of his seat when the attempted putsch was exposed in 1963.

Corallo, Tom Mix Santoro, Sal Avellino and Big Joey Massino were disgusted by Bonanno's tell all interview - so much that Massino later changed the name of the Bonanno crime family to "the Massino family."

What was Big Paul Castellano's reaction to the book and interview? If Bonanno had succeeded in his plot, who would he have picked as replacements?