Borgata Trilogy- Borgata Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia
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Louis Ferrante
- Engels
- Hardcover
- 9781639366019
- 02 januari 2024
- 400 pagina's
Louis Ferrante
"Louis Ferrante is een voormalig maffialid en zat acht jaar in de gevangenis. Hij schreef meerdere succesvolle boeken en presenteert een programma over de maffia op Discovery Channel, waar hij verschillende prijzen en nominaties voor ontving.
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A riveting history of the Mafias first one hundred years, from 1860s Sicily to 1960s Americanarrated by a former high-ranking Gambino lieutenant.
The culmination Louis Ferrantes exhaustive research delving deep into Sicilys socio-economic-political roots, Borgata: Rise of Empire will finally reveal exactly how and why this infamous secret society formed inside Sicilian culture. Ferrante then engages in the art of storytelling by carefully selecting stories about the mafia in Sicily that allow him to follow the main characters to America, where most arrive as fugitives from Italian justice.
Across the Atlantic, the storyline picks up in places like New York and New Orleans, where the clannish Sicilians quickly realize the importance of diversity as they forge new alliances with other recently arrived ethnic groups as the borgata becomes the premier organized criminal network in the country. After planting their flags in cities across America, the adolescent American mafia realizes how to corrupt Americas police and political establishment, and they become experts at bribing public officials, allowing them to extend their tentacles into every level of American society.
In this first volume, Ferrante traces the mafias phenomenal rise of empire through larger-than-life characters such as Lucky Luciano, Vito Genovese, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Seigel, Albert Anastasia, and other legendary mobsters as they provide alcohol to the American public during Prohibition, penetrate industrial labor unions, practically take over the island of Cuba and, with extraordinary vision, create the gambling mecca of Las Vegas.
The culmination Louis Ferrantes exhaustive research delving deep into Sicilys socio-economic-political roots, Borgata: Rise of Empire will finally reveal exactly how and why this infamous secret society formed inside Sicilian culture. Ferrante then engages in the art of storytelling by carefully selecting stories about the mafia in Sicily that allow him to follow the main characters to America, where most arrive as fugitives from Italian justice.
Across the Atlantic, the storyline picks up in places like New York and New Orleans, where the clannish Sicilians quickly realize the importance of diversity as they forge new alliances with other recently arrived ethnic groups as the borgata becomes the premier organized criminal network in the country. After planting their flags in cities across America, the adolescent American mafia realizes how to corrupt Americas police and political establishment, and they become experts at bribing public officials, allowing them to extend their tentacles into every level of American society.
In this first volume, Ferrante traces the mafias phenomenal rise of empire through larger-than-life characters such as Lucky Luciano, Vito Genovese, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Seigel, Albert Anastasia, and other legendary mobsters as they provide alcohol to the American public during Prohibition, penetrate industrial labor unions, practically take over the island of Cuba and, with extraordinary vision, create the gambling mecca of Las Vegas.
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