This is the story of the Cosa Nostra: from its origins in Sicily in 1863, through the great wave of Italian immigration to America, to prohibition and the formation of the first mafia families, and to the harsh realities of fascism and the postwar years in Italy where the Cosa Nostra thrived. The image of the mafioso as a “man of honor”—good to the weak, above the laws of the state but subject to a precise code—was firmly rooted in the collective imagination until the 1980s when light was she...
Here are Hollywood's biggest stars as they never wanted you to know them--all behaving very, very badly. They stood drunkenly outside the three-suite apartment building--singer/actor Frank Sinatra, baseball star Joe DiMaggio, and a pair of private eyes, one wielding a camera. DiMaggio and Sinatra were convinced their former lover, Marilyn Monroe, was inside having sex with actress Sheila Stewart. The lesbian fantasy fueled plans to plan to expose Twentieth Century Fox's newest star attraction,...
Sex, Lies, & Blackmail How a College President Got Away with Rape
by Deann McBrayer
Whacked. One Hundred Years Murder and Mayhem in the Chicago Outfit
by John William Tuohy
Los Infiltrados, El Narco Dentro de Los Gobiernos
by David Aponte and David Aponde
How corrupt is the West? Europe and North America's formal self-perception is one of high standards in public life. And yet, corruption is receiving ever greater attention in the European, American and Canadian press, with high-profile cases affecting both the corporate and political worlds. This book identifies the driving forces behind such cases, particularly the role of political finance, lobbying, the banking system and organised crime. It analyses the sectors which are particularly prone t...
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
by William J. Helmer and Arthur J Bilek
Anonymous Stories of A Fantastic Life (Anonymous Stories of a Fantastic Life, #1)
by V V V
Bureau 39
by Paul Rexton Kan, Bruce E Bechtol Jr, and Professor of History Robert M Collins
Undisclosed Files of the Police
by Bernard Whalen, Philip Messing, and Robert Mladinich
From the establishment of New York's police force in 1845 through the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 to the present day, this visual history of New York City is a peek behind the police tape at more than 150 years of crime. This 320-page chronological tour covers events that shocked the nation, from arson to gangland murders, robberies, serial killers, bombings, and kidnappings. They include headline-grabbing episodes such as architect Stanford White's shooting at Madison Squ...
A fascinating, definitive history and analysis of American labour union corruption - and an urgent call for social justice - that reads at times like a thriller American labour unions have been, it runs out, shot through with corruption from their very inception. They never really had a Golden Age. From "Big Jim" Colosimo, the patron saint of Chicago's Mafia, to Brooklyn's Sammy "The Bull" Gravano a century later, organized crime has controlled huge swathes of the mainline labour movement. It st...
