Blood and Power: Organized Crime in Twentieth-century AmericaW. Morrow, 1989 - 512 pagine The author has a Ph.D in American Civilization from Brown U. but works without a university affiliation. This book represents five years of research on organized crime from the 1920s to the 1980s. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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TWO The Fork in the Road | 52 |
THREE Their Own World | 77 |
FOUR The WASP Response | 130 |
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