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The Mafia Files
Bosses, Families, Codes, Rackets and the Criminal Empire of La Cosa Nostra
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Behind the Myth The Mafia is one of the most mythologized criminal institutions in modern history. Films and novels have made its rituals, language and personalities familiar even to people who have never read a court record.
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The Mafia Files explores bosses, Families, Codes, Rackets and the Criminal Empire of La Cosa Nostra.
This volume in The True Crime Files examines documented cases through evidence, investigation, legal outcomes and historical context rather than sensationalism. Key themes include Mafia, La Cosa Nostra, Organized Crime, Gangsters, Rackets.
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What the Mafia Actually Is
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From Sicily to the United States
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The Black Hand and an Early Myth
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Prohibition: The Great Criminal Accelerator
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The Castellammarese War
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- The Mafia Files
- Introduction - Behind the Myth
- Chapter 1 - What the Mafia Actually Is
- Chapter 2 - From Sicily to the United States
- Chapter 3 - The Black Hand and an Early Myth
- Chapter 4 - Prohibition: The Great Criminal Accelerator
- Chapter 5 - The Castellammarese War
- Chapter 6 - Lucky Luciano and the Commission
- Chapter 7 - The Five Families of New York
- Chapter 8 - How a Crime Family Is Structured
- Chapter 9 - Omerta: Silence as an Operating System
- Chapter 10 - Gambling: The Durable Cash Machine
- Chapter 11 - Labor Racketeering and Union Power
- Chapter 12 - Construction, Carting and the Cost of Doing Business
- Chapter 13 - Violence as Management
- Chapter 14 - Corruption, Protection and Legitimate Fronts
- Chapter 15 - Apalachin, 1957: The Meeting That Could Not Stay Secret
- Chapter 16 - Joseph Valachi Breaks the Public Silence
- Chapter 17 - Wiretaps, Bugs and the Sound of the Enterprise
- Chapter 18 - RICO Changes the Battlefield
- Chapter 19 - The Mafia Commission Trial
- Chapter 20 - The Pizza Connection
- Chapter 21 - Carlo Gambino: Power Without Performance
- Chapter 22 - John Gotti and the Cost of Celebrity
- Chapter 23 - The Genovese Family and the Art of Secrecy
- Chapter 24 - The Bonanno Family and Joseph Massino
- Chapter 25 - The Colombo Family and Internal War
- Chapter 26 - The Lucchese Family: Orders, Crews and Modern Cases
- Chapter 27 - Chicago and the Regional Mafia
- Chapter 28 - Sicily, America and Transnational Links
- Chapter 29 - Informants, Cooperators and the Collapse of Omerta
- Chapter 30 - Decline, Adaptation and What Remains
- Special Dossier I - The Mafia Org Chart
- Special Dossier II - Landmark Turning Points
- Special Dossier III - Myth Versus Record
- Appendix A - New York’s Five Families
- Appendix B - Investigative Tools That Changed Mafia Cases
- Appendix C - The True Crime Files - Books 1-30
- Research Notes & Further Reading
- Evidence in Context
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