Pulizter Prize-winning journalist Anthony M. De Stefano’s latest in-depth history of organized crime exposes the truth behind the mafia crew that took down John Gotti.
THE BOSS OF BOSSES
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony M. De Stefano exposes 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.
As a member of Giuseppe “Joe the Boss” Masseria’s gang in New York City, Genovese ran rackets before joining forces with Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky, and Bugsy Siegel as bootleggers during Prohibition. He helped orchestrate Masseria’s slaughter 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
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po di tutti i capi
—boss of bosses—in the American Mafia. Don Vito 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.
Praise for Anthony M. De Stefano’s Gotti’s Boys
“De Stefano explores John Gotti’s rise to the head of the Gambino family . . . Aficionados are sure to relish the finer, exhaustively researched details.”
—Publishers Weekly
“A thrilling ride . . . De Stefano has written another excellent biography of a memorable group of gangsters and an excellent addition to the history of the Teflon Don.”
—Booklist
Despre autor
Anthony M. De Stefano is a Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning journalist, author, and preeminent Mob historian. He has covered criminal justice and organized crime for more than three decades as a reporter for Newsday and appeared as an expert source on HISTORY’s documentary series American Godfathers: The Five Families. His books on the subject include Broadway Butterfly, The Big Heist, King of the Godfathers, Gangland New York, Top Hoodlum, and Gotti’s Boys, among others. He can be found online at Tony De Stefano.com.
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