Cosa Nostra: An Illustrated History of the Mafia

by Massimo Picozzi

Book Overview

This is the story of the Cosa Nostra: from its origins in Sicily in 1863, through the great wave of Italian immigration to America, to prohibition and the formation of the first mafia families, and to the harsh realities of fascism and the postwar years in Italy where the Cosa Nostra thrived.

The image of the mafioso as a "man of honor"--good to the weak, above the laws of the state but subject to a precise code--was firmly rooted in the collective...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393341968
• ISBN13: 9780393341966
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.1"