
The Mob and the City
The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York
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LJ Ganser
About this listen
Forget what you think you know about the Mafia. After listening to this book, even life-long mob aficionados will have a new perspective on organized crime.
Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the Mafia came to dominate organized crime in New York City during the 1930s through 1950s. Based on exhaustive research of archives and secret files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, author and attorney C. Alexander Hortis draws on the deepest collection of primary sources, many newly discovered, of any history of the modern mob.
Shattering myths, Hortis reveals how Cosa Nostra actually obtained power at the inception. The author goes beyond conventional who-shot-who mob stories, providing answers to fresh questions such as:
- Why did the Sicilian gangs come out on top of the criminal underworld?
- Can economics explain how the Mafia families operated?
- What was the Mafia's real role in the drug trade?
- Why was Cosa Nostra involved in gay bars in New York since the 1930s?
Drawing on an unprecedented array of primary sources, The Mob and the City is the most thorough and authentic history of the Mafia's rise to power in the early-to-mid 20th century.
©2014 C. Alexander Hortis (P)2014 Audible Inc.After a short while, it didn't matter and the book was still good.
Interesting listen with fitting Narrator
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potted histories are often lightweight, but this was pretty engaging.
informative
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Narration by I.J.Gunser is well performed, very much in the style of a newsreel commentary which seemed to fit well with the subject matter.
It is a fascinating history of the growing infiltration of the Italian mobsters in the first half of the twentieth century and continues by refuting certain myths about the mafia, such as a traditional ban on drug dealings and that to become a made man, first the hopeful candidate had to kill someone.The
narrative continues until the mob's 'terrible year' of 1957. It is all very interesting but could have been better structured to make it more reader friendly, plus the large numbers of names involved makes it difficult to easily absorb. There is, fortunately, a downloadable PDF which accompanied the audio.
A fascinating sociological peek into the growth of a crime domination, worth reading for an overview.
They captured New York City by becoming part of it
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Enjoyable
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It is not a story nor is it blood and guts. It is so much more than that as from what I have been able to research it's pretty much the true and honest history of the La Cosa Nostra.
very informative and narrated well.
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Interesting listen.
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A really good listen
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A fantastic
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A well narrated view on the American Mafia
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I have noticed that most narrators doing audiobooks are American,I prefer British narrators, but for this audiobook the narrator was excellent.
You want to find out stuff about the Mob that you never knew before THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU.
Of Course An American Would Be The Narrator!!
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