Five Families

The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires

By: Selwyn Raab

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Paperback | 4 October 2016

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816 Pages

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The New York Times bestseller chronicling the history of NYC's infamous five mafia families is now the basis for the upcoming The HISTORY(R) Channel documentary series American Godfathers: The Five Families.

For half a century, the American Mafia outwitted, outmaneuvered, and outgunned the FBI and other police agencies, wreaking unparalleled damage on America's social fabric and business enterprises while emerging as the nation's most formidable crime empire. The vanguard of this criminal juggernaut is still led by the Mafia's most potent and largest borgatas: New York's Five Families.

Five Families is the vivid story of the rise and fall of New York's premier dons, from Lucky Luciano to Paul Castellano to John Gotti and others. This definitive history brings the reader right up to the possible resurgence of the Mafia as the FBI and local law-enforcement agencies turn their attention to homeland security and away from organized crime.

This updated tenth-anniversary edition features a new preface by the author.

Industry Reviews

Five Families is the finest Mafia history we're likely to see for a good long time. --The New York Times Book Review

Riveting history. --People

Raab . . . exudes the authority of a writer who has lived and breathed his subject. --The Boston Globe

Raab sets a new gold standard for organized crime nonfiction with his outstanding history. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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