{"product_id":"9780882825045","title":"Crime Incorporated: The Inside Story of the Mafia's First 100 Years","description":"Based on previously unavailable information and nearly two decades of research, \u003cb\u003eCrime Incorporated\u003c\/b\u003e reveals for the first time all the unsavoury facts of the Mob's bloody evolution from a gang of uncouth, bumbling killers into the highly organized, smoothly running 'corporation' it is today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Balsamo, great-nephew of the first godfather, Don Guiseppe - 'Battista' - Balsamo, and George Carpozi, Jr. disclose the Mob's savage beginnings in the group of Italian immigrant - the 'Blank Hand' - who tore control of New York's waterfronts away from the Irish racketeers - the 'White Hand' - and went on from there.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey trace the Black Hand's coalescence into an organization who insidious influence reached across the country and into a presidential administration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCrime Incorporated\u003c\/b\u003e explores the horrifying facts behind the rise and fall of the Mob's most notorious leaders - Al Capone, Charles 'Lucky' Luciano, Vito Genovese, Frank Costello, Albert Anastasia, Joe Bonanno, Carlo Gambino, Joe Profaci, Thomas Luchese. And it goes behind the headlines of Rudolph Guiliani's pursuit of the Mob. - the Pizza Connection and Commission trials - to cite with chilling clarity the Mafia's control over daily life in America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCrime Incorporated\u003c\/b\u003e reads like a novel. But it is frightening, deadly true.","brand":"New Horizon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125761130736,"sku":"9780882825045","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780882825045_p0.jpg?v=1763861548","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780882825045","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}