
Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia
Borgata Trilogy, Book 1
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Louis Ferrante
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Louis Ferrante
The culmination of Louis Ferrante's exhaustive research delving deep into Sicily's socio-economic-political roots, Borgata: Rise of Empire will finally reveal exactly how and why this infamous secret society formed inside Sicilian culture. Ferrante then engages in the art of storytelling by carefully selecting stories about the mafia in Sicily that allow him to follow the main characters to America, where most arrive as fugitives from Italian justice.
Across the Atlantic, the storyline picks up in places like New York and New Orleans, where the clannish Sicilians quickly realize the importance of diversity as they forge new alliances with other recently arrived ethnic groups as the borgata becomes the premier organized criminal network in the country. After planting their flags in cities across America, the adolescent American mafia realizes how to corrupt America's police and political establishment, allowing them to extend their tentacles into every level of American society.
In this first volume, Ferrante traces the mafia's phenomenal "rise of empire" through larger-than-life characters and legendary mobsters as they provide alcohol to the American public during Prohibition, penetrate industrial labor unions, practically take over the island of Cuba and, with extraordinary vision, create the gambling mecca of Las Vegas.
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Enjoying story.
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Great Book and Author's Voice Makes it Authentic
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Borgata: Rise of Empire is a scholarly work replete with historical references and in-depth development of the personalities and human relationships at the center of the story. I especially appreciate the more balanced and realistic interpretation of mafia lore compared with what I’ve usually seen in renditions of similar material. As just one example, the authors unravels a more nuanced description of why J Edgar Hoover seemed to treat the mob with kid gloves for several decades. That added depth makes a world of difference for better understanding of this very complex and almost by definition murky material.
Special thanks to the author. I’m looking forward to hearing — or reading — the next two volumes.
Richard Paczynski
Ferrante hits the trifecta
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A most excellent history of the mob.
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Fascinating in depth history of the early Mafia
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In depth detail and organization of that information.
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Great insight into the mob
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Excellent
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I’ve Read and Listened to them All and This is The Best
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Same history, slightly different perspective.
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