Cosa Nostra
by John Dickie, Dickie, John · first published 2004
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From the mafia's origins in the 1860s to its current tense relationship with the Berlusconi government, this is a vivid and gripping history of the Sicilian Mafia's inner sanctum.
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For anyone interested in the history of the Italian mafia, I can't strongly enough reccommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/Cosa-Nostra-History-Sicilian-Mafia/dp/... (no affiliate link, I promise!) It covers, in detail, this incident and talks about how it was a major turning point in people's perception of organised crime in Italy,…
This book [1] goes into great detail on the history and origins of the mafia - including the lemons. It's a great read. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Cosa-Nostra-History-Sicilian-Mafia/dp...
on “Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons” ↗…earned in decades of selling drugs, prostitution and so on. Now they're honest employers recycling money. That's it. I suggest you to read some books from Salvatore Lupo (Giovanni Falcone's "Cose di Cosa Nostra" too is a good introduction, ...), an Italian historian, whose activity is centered to study mafia and its origins.
on “Mafia becomes "Italy's largest bank" in aftermath of financial crisis” ↗…uniquely distinct regions came to produce some of the most delicious and beloved foods of all time is expertly revealed. * https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Delizia!/John-Dickie/... (He also wrote Cosa Nostra, about the Sicilian mafia, and Blood brotherhoods: a history of Italy's three mafias.)
on “What did the ancient Romans eat?” ↗It is not so easy, even to explain. Many books have been written about organized criminality in Italy and many have to be written yet. Consider that Cosa Nostra (the Sicilian Mafia) at the beginning of '90 had so much power that managed to start a negotiation with high functionaries of the Italian government about which laws could pass and which not (la "Trattativa…
on “Italian ‘king of absentees’ allegedly skipped work for 15 years” ↗