The First Family (Audiobook)

from Sararush

While writing The First Family it seems as if author Mike Dash didn't include even the tiniest detail without sourcing and noting the inclusion. He takes the American mafia as far back as he can trace it, and then slowly through massive amounts of research from historical sources (police files, c...

from Count_Zero

A fascinating book about the Mafia. Most books on organized crime either focus on the modern or semi-modern period, or on Prohibition and events related to that. This book is the first I've read that goes further back then that, all the way to the turn of the century. It's very well researched an...

from iluvvideo

This book was eye opening. It traces the Mafia in the 1890's US to the 1940's. It starts in Italy (Sicily to be exact) tracing the roots of an organization fostered by non resident (and non representative) government, ineffective (and often corrupt) local law enforcement as the factors most preva...

from MontzaleeW

The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia by Mike Dash is a very interesting and sometimes gruesome book but it is also packed full of history. This gives history of the Sicilian life and how and why they moved to America and who and how the America...

from Daftboy1

This is such a well researched book, hats off to Mike Dash. Reading this book makes you feel like your back in Little Italy 1910s A horrible squalid, smelly over crowded crime infested part of Manhattan. The main character is One fingered Giuseppe Morello the head of the first Sicilian mafia base...