Morello Mob Bibliography
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Bonanno, Joseph |
A Man of Honor
The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno |
New York
Simon & Schuster
1983 |
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Critchley, David |
The Origin of Organized Crime in America
The New York City Mafia 1891-1931 |
Routledge
Aug. 1, 2008. |
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Downey, Patrick |
Gangster City
The History of the New York Underworld 1900-1935 |
Fort Lee NJ
Barricade Books
2004 |
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Fox, Stephen |
Blood and Power
Organized Crime in Twentieth Century America |
New York
William Morrow & Co.
1989. |
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Gage, Nicholas |
Mafia, USA |
Chicago
Playboy Press
1972 |
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Gentile, Nick |
Vita di Capomafia |
Rome
Editori Riuniti
1963 |
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Maas, Peter |
The Valachi Papers |
New York
G.P. Putnam's Sons
1968 |
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Nelli, Humbert S. |
The Business of Crime |
Chicago
University of Chicago Press
1976 |
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Petacco, Arrigo |
Joe Petrosino |
New York
Macmillan
1974 |
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Peterson, Virgil |
The Mob
200 Years of Organized Crime |
Ottawa IL
Green Hill
1983 |
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Pitkin, Thomas M.
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Francesco Cordasco |
The Black Hand
A Chapter in Ethnic Crime |
Totowa NJ
Littlefield, Adams & Co.
1977 |
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Pitkin explores the Morello-Lupo gang's contact with Joseph Petrosino, leader of the NYPD Italian Squad, and its possible role in Petrosino's assassination in Sicily. |
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Reid, Ed |
MAFIA |
New York: Random House, 1952 |
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Reid, Ed |
The Grim Reapers
The Anatomy of Organized Crime in America |
Chicago
Henry Regnery Company
1969 |
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There are some mentions of Ciro Terranova, Nicholas Terranova and Ignazio Lupo, but most contain errors. ¤ |
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Reid, Ed |
The Shame of New York |
New York
Random House
1953 |
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Avoid this one for Morello mob information. Reid mentions the family only in a single footnote and still manages to squeeze three errors into that tiny space. ¤ |
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Reppetto, Thomas |
The American Mafia
A History of its Rise to Power |
New York
Henry Holt and Company
2004 |
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Contains a fair quantity of information on Morello, Lupo and the Terranovas. However, some of the old errors managed to creep into the history. ¤ ¤ |
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Selvaggi, Giuseppe |
The Rise of the Mafia in New York |
New York
Bobbs Merrill Company
1978 |
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This book contains some very dramatic stories of crime in the family's early 1900s East Harlem neighborhood, but they are unreliable. ¤ ¤ |