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Eminent gangsters : immigrants and the birth of organized crime in America / James Fentress.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fentress, James.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Organized crime--United States--History.
- Organized crime.
- Italian American criminals.
- History.
- Gangsters.
- United States.
- Mafia--United States--History.
- Mafia.
- Gangsters--United States--History.
- Italian American criminals--United States--History.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 485 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, MD : University Press of America, [2010]
- Contents:
- Introduction : a new world
- Italian crime comes to America : Stoppaglieri and New Orleans
- New York : spoilsmen and reformers
- Italian crime in America : Mano Nera, Camorra and Mafia
- Expanding immigration : Chicago and the Levee
- Prohibition : the new Gold Rush
- Prohibition in Chicago : Johnnie Torrio, Al Capone, and the Beer War
- The underground at war: Part 1
- from the fall of the Gennas to the Aiello uprising
- The underground at war: Part 2
- many cities: from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre to the Castellammarrese War
- The underground at war: Part 3
- New York
- The underground at war: Part 4
- The endgame
- The fall
- Conclusion: Why do we need organized crime anyway?
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [456]-475) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780761852155
- 0761852158
- OCLC:
- 630470330
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