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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     DeStefano, Anthony M.     Subjects     Genovese, Vito, 1897-1969.     Mafia -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.     Organized crime -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.     Criminals -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.     Mafia -- United States -- Biography.     Organized crime -- United States -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      DeStefano, Anthony M.       by title:      The Deadly Don : Vit...       by call number:      364.1092 G335d     Search the Web     DeStefano, Anthony M.     Genovese, Vito, 1897-1969.     Mafia -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.     Organized crime -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.     Criminals -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.     Mafia -- United States -- Biography.     Organized crime -- United States -- Biography.       MARC Display

The Deadly Don : Vito Genovese mafia boss / Anthony M. Destefano. by DeStefano, Anthony M. Citadel Press : Kensington Publishing Corp., 2021. Call #: 364.1092 G335d Subjects Genovese, Vito, 1897-1969.   Mafia -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.   Organized crime -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.   Criminals -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.   Mafia -- United States -- Biography.   Organized crime -- United States -- Biography. ISBN:  9780806540931 (hc) Description:  282 p., 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "Vito Genovese ran rackets as a member of Giuseppe Joe the Boss Masseria's gang in New York City before joining forces with Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky, and Bugsy Siegel as bootleggers during Prohibition. As a soldier in the Castellammarese War, he helped orchestrate Masseria's death on behalf of Brooklyn crime lord Salvatore Maranzano, consolidating his position and power before ensuring Maranzano, too, was knocked off. For the next three decades, Vito Genovese -- shrewd, merciless, and utterly savage -- killed countless gangsters in his bid to become the capo di tutti i capi -- boss of bosses -- in the American Mafia. Genovese would betray some of the mafia's most notorious bosses, including Albert Anastasia and Frank Costello, to eventually seize control of the Luciano crime family, one that still bears the Genovese name today. In The Deadly Don, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony M. DeStefano presents the rise and fall of Vito Genovese in this first comprehensive biography of the legendary mafioso -- from his childhood in Naples, Italy, and the beginnings of his bullet-ridden criminal career on lower Manhattan's mean streets, through his self-exile in the mid-1930s back to his homeland where he ran a black market operation under the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini, and his return to New York where Genovese made a fortune as the head of an illegal narcotics empire. DeStefano reveals the important and terrifying role Genovese played in the creation of the Mafia, detailing his bloody and ruthless lifetime of crime that would put him behind bars for his last fifteen years--and securing his infamous place in the history of organized crime."--Publisher. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Biography 364.1092 G335d Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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