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Following the success of Talese's previous book The Kingdom and the Power, his book on the Mafia was primed for success, and quickly became a bestseller.Talese's use of literary techniques that were traditionally the domain of fiction, known as "new journalism", still was regarded with caution and many suspected the technique of fabrication; a charge that Talese has always strongly denied.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Novels about the Sicilian Mafia (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Novels about organized crime"
Pages in category "Non-fiction books about Italian-American organized crime" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Mafia Wiseguys: The Mob That Took on the Feds. SP Books. ISBN 978-1-56171-195-6. Orlando, Leoluca (2003). Fighting the Mafia and Renewing Sicilian Culture. Encounter Books. ISBN 978-1-893554-81-8. Schneider, Peter T.; Schneider, Jane C. (11 February 2003). Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo. University of ...
The Day of the Owl (Italian: Il giorno della civetta [il ˈdʒorno della tʃiˈvetta]) is a crime novel about the Sicilian Mafia by Leonardo Sciascia, finished in 1960 and published in 1961. As the author wrote in his preface of the 1972 Italian edition, the novel was written at a time in which the existence of the Mafia itself was debated and ...
The Valachi Papers is a 1968 biography written by Peter Maas, telling the story of former mafia member Joe Valachi, a low-ranking member of the New York–based Genovese crime family, who was the first ever government witness coming from the American Mafia itself. His account of his criminal past revealed many previously unknown details of the ...
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After he entered witness protection, Teresa wrote three books: the 1973 My Life In The Mafia, co-written with Newsday writer Thomas C. Renner, which documented his Cosa Nostra career and the 1960s Boston Irish Mob Wars; the 1975 Vinnie Teresa's Mafia, also co-written with Renner, which documented his life during his time in the Federal Witness Protection Program and beyond; and the 1978 ...