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Lanza's mob : the Mafia and San Francisco / Christina Ann-Marie DiEdoardo.
Van Pelt Library HV6452.C29 D35 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DiEdoardo, Christina Ann-Marie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lanza, Francesco, -1937.
- Lanza, Francesco.
- Mafia--California--San Francisco--History.
- Mafia.
- Organized crime--California--San Francisco--History.
- Organized crime.
- History.
- California--San Francisco.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 204 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2016]
- Contents:
- Disarming the bodyguard: San Francisco mafia myths and realities
- Sicilian realities and American dreams
- To the mean streets of New York
- Go West, young man, cause it's prohibition
- Ferri meets his maker
- The end of Prohibition and the big strike
- Marone, we can't use the wharf no more
- DeJohn takes the big sleep
- The Kefauver show
- The Apalachin debacle
- From anonymity to "top hoodlum"
- Legitimate businesses
- The swinging 1960s
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781440842160
- 1440842167
- OCLC:
- 946610504
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