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Re: Mafia Books [Re: Skinny] #718370
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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 [Re: Turi Giuliano] #718383
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Just read Mafia Wife very good and sounds truthful. It's from a different perspective.

Re: Mafia Books [Re: Turi Giuliano] #718457
06/03/13 10:17 AM
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Anyone read Mob Boss yet? any good?


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"You don't have to count the dead to understand the business of the Camorra" Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano
Re: Mafia Books [Re: Turi Giuliano] #718603
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In exile watching star wars an...
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Short? The one about joe massino?

Re: Mafia Books [Re: Turi Giuliano] #718718
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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
Re: Mafia Books [Re: Turi Giuliano] #718791
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reading contract killer right now about the greek and just bought Mob Girl: A Woman's Life in the Underworld
Carpenter, Teresa


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Re: Mafia Books [Re: Turi Giuliano] #718792
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and bought this but it hasnt come yet

Looking For Closure: The Theresa Ferrara Story
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Re: Mafia Books [Re: DE NIRO] #718854
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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.

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Re: Mafia Books [Re: Turi Giuliano] #718900
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Just finished reading the sixth family by Marino Amoruso want bad!

Re: Mafia Books [Re: joisy_mike] #718942
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Originally Posted By: joisy_mike
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.

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lost my library card due to never returning any books lol


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Re: Mafia Books [Re: Turi Giuliano] #720033
06/12/13 08:12 AM
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Just finished RIFLEMAN:The Untold Story of Stevie Flemmi, Whitey Bulgers Partner -- Hands down the best Boston book out right now. I was hesitant at first to buy it because I just wasn't up for another account of the same old Whitey&Stevie story all over again. Luckily I was wrong and I realized practically right away it wasn't the same old story. Really interesting story that takes you through Flemmi' s earlier days as a store owner and bookie operating under Wimpy Bennett to when he first hooks up with Whitey, to the end of it all and Stevie's eventual arrest/exposure as a rat/trial/testimony. And all the murders and mayhem in between with details never released before. Awesome book,recommend it.

Re: Mafia Books [Re: Turi Giuliano] #720034
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Just started HITMAN about Johnny Martorano. So far just as good as the Flemmi book

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Re: Mafia Books [Re: southend] #720080
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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 [Re: Turi Giuliano] #720082
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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


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Re: Mafia Books [Re: cornerkid] #720206
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Originally Posted By: cornerkid
i read Hitman last month, Carr has a hard on for Martorano..still pretty good though. Who wrote the Flemmi book?


I agree. As a person I'm not a fan of his but Carr does pretty good when he writes about Boston OC

Re: Mafia Books [Re: Turi Giuliano] #720420
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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.

Re: Mafia Books [Re: FunnyHow] #720450
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Originally Posted By: FunnyHow
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.

Re: Mafia Books [Re: Turi Giuliano] #720469
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That's what I planned on doing. I heard it's a good overview of the five families. I have been looking up lists of the best gangster books, and I picked out ones that were rated very well and seemed to fit with what I wanted to read.

Re: Mafia Books [Re: Turi Giuliano] #720995
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Can you recommend me a good book that will provide me a good knowledge about Sicilian mafia?


Thanks.

Re: Mafia Books [Re: Turi Giuliano] #721024
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john dickie: Cosa Nostra: A History Of The Sicilian Mafia

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Re: Mafia Books [Re: Turi Giuliano] #721470
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The above color rendition of the mug shot of Vincent Basciano was done by New York art dealer and artist Diana Saez to commemorate publication of the book. This is NOT the cover or title of the new book, which is titled "Vinny Gorgeous: The Ugly Rise and Fall of A New York Mobster."

http://tonydestefano.com/id3.html


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Re: Mafia Books [Re: Turi Giuliano] #721566
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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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Re: Mafia Books [Re: Stevedaman] #721938
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Originally Posted By: Stevedaman
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



I just read a free sample of it on kindle fire, so far so good. So you say it's well worth it? I'll take your word on that and go for it, because Cocaine Cowboys was one of my favorite docu's ever. Jon's was a story I had always wanted to know more about since seeing him in the documentary talking about being involved with a mob crew in NY then his buddy got murdered and him moving down to Miami. Looking forward to this book. Thanks for your brief input

Re: Mafia Books [Re: Turi Giuliano] #721939
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Oh and you'll love GASPIPE. Really good book. And Double Deal, that's a Chicago book if im not mistaken? I see it on the shelf at the library but have only skimmed thru it, lots of good color pictures of all the interesting outfit guys like accardo and giancana, ricca. let me know!

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went to my library they got pleasant ave connection sent from bangor maine down to Worcester mass that was cool, ebay wants 100+$ for the book its only 175pages long. its ok its mostly about corrupt cops ala serpico's book the author a cop was serpico's friend.t its start off with a old man informant trying to look out for his son from becoming a runner of herion on pleasant ave. not so much a mob book. yeh all the guys on pleasnt ended up doing a ton of time and became memebers. the guy johnny echoes does 20 yrs comes out in 1995 gets bagged again selling herion in 1997 with the same guys who been getting busted seeling h since carmine galante and them in the 1950's kinda sad.what happen to the money. the main villain is ernie boy.

Re: Mafia Books [Re: Turi Giuliano] #723084
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over $100 for pleasant ave connection wtf?

Re: Mafia Books [Re: Turi Giuliano] #723261
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Just got the heist about Lufthansa and a book about the pizza connection

Pleasant avenue was good. I liked it. Hard to get because its out of print.


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Re: Mafia Books [Re: Turi Giuliano] #723287
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Cheech what'd u grab, Last Days of the Sicilians? Good stuff

Re: Mafia Books [Re: Turi Giuliano] #723288
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……goes into detail on all the players. All of them. Crazy actually how they were all bein watched practically the whole time

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Re: Mafia Books [Re: Turi Giuliano] #723303
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No but I'll look that up its just called the pizza connection by shana Alexander


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