The Last Don suffers from the same flaw as The Godfather. Too much Hollywood. It would be fine if Puzo didn't come off as so bitter. He hated Sinatra. It was obvious. Puzo's worship of old school Sicilian dons and his fantasizing over their pristine control of the underworld was a little annoying, too, and obviously out of touch with reality.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
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