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Lädt ... The Mob and the City: The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New Yorkvon C. Alexander Hortis
   Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  Melline | Aug 13, 2022 |   Although this book is written very much like a history text; it includes sociology, economics and geography with some very detailed tables, I couldn’t help but feel that this was just someone’s lecture notes that they had bound into a book. There was an over use of the phrases ‘as you will see’ or ‘now let us look at’ that just made it feel as if this particular take on the subject of the Mafia was meant to be heard not read. Throw in the overlong chapter subheadings which appear on every page, and you have a writing style that I could only rating as 2 thumbs, and that was being kind. My initial reasoning behind picking this up was an interest in Early New York, particularly the Italian side of things, as I have Family members who lived in this era and area. This book did shed a great deal of light on life in the time period covered by the book, but not enough to give the boost to the rating it so sorely needs. In the end I decided to split the difference between the two above rating points and give it a three. The book was informative, but extremely dull in places which was a shame given the amount of research that had gone into it. Maybe with a stricter editor, who was willing to cut out a lot of the ‘lecture’ speak, this could have been a lot less tedious and grating. I would recommend it to anyone that is interesting in this subject, but be warned it may not be what you are expecting. Originally reviewed on: http://catesbooknuthut.com/2014/11/07/the-mob-and-the-city-the-hidden-history-of... This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. (  ) TheAcorn | Nov 8, 2019 | Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Forget what you think you know about the Mafia. After reading this book, even life-long mob aficionados will have a new perspective on organized crime. Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the Mafia came to dominate organized crime in New York City during the 1930s through 1950s. Based on exhaustive research of archives and secret files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, author and attorney C. Alexander Hortis draws on the deepest collection of primary sources, many newly discovered, of any history of the modern mob. Shattering myths, Hortis reveals how Cosa Nostra actually obtained power at the inception. The author goes beyond conventional who-shot-who mob stories, providing answers to fresh questions such as- * Why did the Sicilian gangs come out on top of the criminal underworld? * Can economics explain how the Mafia families operated? * What was the Mafia's real role in the drug trade? * Why was Cosa Nostra involved in gay bars in New York since the 1930s? Drawing on an unprecedented array of primary sources, The Mob and the City is the most thorough and authentic history of the Mafia's rise to power in the early-to-mid twentieth century. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)364.10609747Social sciences Social problems & social services Criminology Criminal offenses Organized Crime Standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biographyKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (3.63)
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Although this book is written very much like a history text; it includes sociology, economics and geography with some very detailed tables, I couldn’t help but feel that this was just someone’s lecture notes that they had bound into a book. There was an over use of the phrases ‘as you will see’ or ‘now let us look at’ that just made it feel as if this particular take on the subject of the Mafia was meant to be heard not read. Throw in the overlong chapter subheadings which appear on every page, and you have a writing style that I could only rating as 2 thumbs, and that was being kind.
My initial reasoning behind picking this up was an interest in Early New York, particularly the Italian side of things, as I have Family members who lived in this era and area. This book did shed a great deal of light on life in the time period covered by the book, but not enough to give the boost to the rating it so sorely needs. In the end I decided to split the difference between the two above rating points and give it a three.
The book was informative, but extremely dull in places which was a shame given the amount of research that had gone into it. Maybe with a stricter editor, who was willing to cut out a lot of the ‘lecture’ speak, this could have been a lot less tedious and grating. I would recommend it to anyone that is interesting in this subject, but be warned it may not be what you are expecting.
Originally reviewed on: http://catesbooknuthut.com/2014/11/07/the-mob-and-the-city-the-hidden-history-of...
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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