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The Sicilian Mafia
Blood ceremonies, obscure symbols, elaborate codes, brutal executions: the arcane remnants of a defunct culture? The Mafia, this book suggests, is not nearly as bizarre as all that, not nearly as remote as we might think. In fact, as Diego Gambetta's analysis unfolds, the Mafia begins to resemble any other business. In a society where trust is in short supply, this business sells protection, a guarantee of safe conduct for commercial and social transactions. It grudgingly shares the market with other concerns like itself, of which it is merely the most successful. The author develops his elegant economic theory with ample evidence, much of it based on the remarkable work done by Judge Giovan...
The Treacherous World of Joseph Valachi
Joseph Valachi was a special figure in the history of American crime. Noteworthy as a rare primary source into Mafia events of the Castellammarese War-era (1930-1931), Valachi's documented memories also provide a window into the early gangland of East Harlem, Manhattan and the Bronx. Through his recollections, historians gain a unique soldier-level view of New York-area organized crime families between Prohibition and the Mafia convention at Apalachin, New York. As an early Mafia turncoat and a celebrated informant for J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, Valachi became the focus of a best-selling book, a popular motion picture, many hours of televised Senate testimony and a detailed but never published a...
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Becoming Joey Fizz
Follow the journey of Joey Mancuso becoming Joey "Fizz" as he travels in the crucible of his existence seeking to find his place in the universe on his own terms. Share in Joey's journey returning from the Korean War, conflicted about returning home to the conflicts in his own family. Be with Joey on his way after the war guiding a blinded war buddy to fulfill a dream going to Yosemite National Park then visiting the home of a dead buddy from the Blackfeet Indian reservation in Montana returning to his family, in tribute, the most meaningful symbol of his buddy's life. Go with Joey to Memphis where he escapes trouble in a fight at a poker game learning firsthand the hatred still brewing in t...
Art of Darkness
Just like Scheherazade, undercover agents talk to save their lives. If they put in a poor performance, they don't see the curtain rise again. ART OF DARKNESS pries open the virtuoso identity techniques practiced by undercover operatives, fugitives, disguise artists, pranksters, con artists, and federally protected witnesses. It draws on original interviews with undercover operators in order to show how identity artists on both sides of the law obtain fake ID, develop a disguise, build a cover story, maintain believability in street performances, and deal with threats to their identities-all without formal acting training. ART OF DARKNESS inhabits the grey areas of morality as it exposes iden...
Fai silenzio ca parrasti assai
Prefazione di Otello Lupacchini La 'ndrangheta è un "elemento costitutivo della società calabrese"; le famiglie di 'ndrangheta sono cellule della società e, come tali, respirano la stessa aria. Sono cellule malate, però, che si nutrono della parte sana della collettività, dissanguandola. La forza della 'ndrangheta sta nell'omertà, nella capacità di impedire che si parli della crudeltà e della prepotenza che la costrddistinguono. Il silenzio, a volte determinato dalla paura, altre volte dalla indifferenza o, ancora, dalla vicinanza, ne ha consentito diffusione e consolidamento anche al di fuori dei confini nazionali. È la forza della parola, il coraggio di denunciare, che potrà distruggerla. Le parole fanno paura, ecco perché un capo, Pantaleone Mancuso, atterrito, perde il controllo, nel corso di una udienza in cui è imputato e urla al suo Pubblico Ministero: «Fai silenzio, fai silenzio, fai silenzio ca parrasti assai, hai capito ca parrasti assai, fai silenzio ca parrasti assai.» Espressione dello stato d'animo di un boss che comprende che il muro che ha costruito per la protezione sua e della sua famiglia sta per essere infranto dal coraggio di chi usa la parola.
