I hear you, Jace, but I think there's a limit to how much the authors can challenge Al or any other subject; it's up to us to determine whether Al's interpretation is believable.

Also, there are, unfortunately, limits of how many new stories we can turn up on dead men but it still needs to be put out. I don't know that, for that kind of book, you want Capeci/Robbins stopping to say "as explained in Selwyn Raab..."

One area where will differ is Al's non-crime autobiography: the neighborhoods and the the particulars of that type of immigrant family are NOT well-served in literature or in history; that's why I say it's a great addition to the BROOKLYN history shelf, period, in addition to its virtues as crime book.

I'm assuming the additional civic/social history are Tom's doings, since we know Capeci's style from his other books, though I think Al's unusual intellectual interests, for a gangster, are part of it also. (Like Fat Pete Chiodo too; wasn't he supposed to be a big reader?)