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Fighting the Mafia and renewing Sicilian culture / Leoluca Orlando.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Orlando, Leoluca.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Mafia--Italy--Palermo.
Mafia.
Mayors--Italy--Palermo--Biography.
Mayors.
Palermo (Italy)--Politics and government--1945-.
Palermo (Italy).
Partito della democrazia cristiana--Biography.
Partito della democrazia cristiana.
Orlando, Leoluca.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (249 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Other Title:
Fighting the Mafia
Place of Publication:
New York : Encounter Books, c2001.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Growing up in an aristocratic family that seems almost to have stepped out of the pages of The Leopard, Leoluca Orlando entered law and politics in the late 1970's as one of the young idealists identified with the Catholic Church who were challenging the Mafia's control of Sicilian life. At about the same moment, life in Sicily was becoming more perilous. As if the ?old" Mafia had not been bad enough, a new and particularly vicious Mafia sect based in the town of Corleone was murdering its way to power. Fueled by profits from the international heroin trade, this mafia gansteristica
Contents:
Contents; Prologue; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; Acknowledgments; Index
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9786612883040
9781282883048
1282883046
9781594034015
159403401X
OCLC:
781363529

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