Synopses & Reviews
Based on previously unavailable information and nearly two decades of research,
Crime Incorporated reveals for the first time all the unsavory facts of the Mobs bloody evolution from a gang of uncouth, bumbling killers into the highly organized, smoothly running corporation” it is today. William Balsamo, great-nephew of the first godfather, Don Giuseppe Battista” Balsamo, and George Carpozi, Jr. disclose the Mobs savage beginnings in the group of Italian immigrants the Black Hand” who tore control of New Yorks waterfronts away from the Irish racketeers the White Hand” and went from there. They trace the Black Hands coalescence into an organization whose insidious influence reached across the country and into a presidential administration.
Crime Incorporated explores the horrifying facts behind the rise and fall of the Mobs most notorious leaders and goes behind the headlines of Rudolph Giulianis pursuit of the Mob the Pizza Connection and Commission trials to cite with chilling clarity the Mafias control over daily life in America. Crime Incorporated reads like a novel. But it is frightening, deadly truth.
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Crime Inc. gives the real story of the beginnings of the Mafia in the United States. It tells for the first time what actually happened as control of the rackets -- extortion, protection, carting and hauling, cement industry and beer and liquor distributor-ships -- as well as the New York waterfront -- was wrested away from the Irish racketeers by Italian crime families.
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Fictional exploits like the Godfather pale in comparison.--United Press International