Originally posted by Bada Bing Ben:
Turnbull.
Thank you. I really do appreciate your post.
For my Dissertation i want to separate the various impacts the mafia has had into more manageable chunks. i HAVE to relate everything to the title of course...the social and economic impacts on american society and of course some political stuff would be good...my degree is "European Politics" (i had to beg them to let me write about the USA).
I am thinking
1: General Structure and Origins of "The Mafia"
2: The Unions (good stuff economically here i would say)
3: Drugs (Social impacts)
4: Political impacts (the efforts of The Kennedys and the JFK hit)
5: The Mafia in the late C20th. (again social issues etc)
6: Gneral conclusion...evalution of the overall influence of the mafia.
If you know any books or resources online that can help with any of these areas i would be greatly appreciative....this of course goes out to anyone!
Many thanks.
Ben
Ben this might be a little late but The Idiot's guide to the mafia, it has sections on almost every one of the pooints you listed.
