The First Family (Audiobook)

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 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 Melkor81205

Awesome. I could not put this one down. Dash does an excellent job of bringing back to life "The Clutch Hand". Many of us are familiar with names like Lucky Luciano,Al Capone, Dutch Schultz but we know little of Ciro Terranova, Lupo the Wolf, and other heavyweights of their generation and this bo...

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...

from marshapetry

Just didn't hold me. Interesting book, at least the early history, and then got way to complicated to follow... and I just wasn't that in to trying. But overall pretty good.