{"product_id":"2940170521302","title":"American Mafia: A History of Its Rise to Power","description":"Organized crimeamp;mdash;the Italian American kindamp;mdash;has long been a source of popular entertainment and legend. Now Thomas Reppetto provides a balanced history of the Mafia's riseamp;mdash;from the 1880s to the postamp;ndash;World War II eraamp;mdash;that is as exciting as it is authoritative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStructuring his narrative around a series of case histories featuring such infamous characters as Lucky Luciano and Al Capone, Reppetto draws on a lifetime of field experience and access to unseen documents to show us a locally grown Mafia. It wasn't until the 1920s, thanks to Prohibition, that the Mafia assumed what we now consider its defining characteristics, especially its octopus-like tendency to infiltrate industry and government. At mid-century the Kefauver Commission declared the Mafia synonymous with Union Siciliana; in the 1960s the FBI finally admitted the Mafia's existence under the name La Cosa Nostra.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Mafia\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating look at America's most compelling criminal subculture from an author who is intimately acquainted with both sides of the street.","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47169782382832,"sku":"2940170521302","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170521302_p0.jpg?v=1763711384","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170521302","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}