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The Deadly Don: Vito Genovese, Mafia Boss,New
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Pulitzer Prizewinning investigative journalist and author Anthony M. DeStefano presents the definitive book on Vito Genovese, the namesake of a crime family which is still considered one of the most viable and dangerous in the U.S. today. From enforcer to Godfather, Vito Genovese rose through the ranks of La Cosa Nostra to head of one of the wealthiest and most dangerous crime families in American history.THE BOSS OF BOSSESThe first comprehensive biography of the legendary Mafioso Vito Genovese from his childhood in Naples, Italy, and the beginnings of his bulletridden criminal career on lower Manhattans mean streets, through his selfexile in the mid1930s back to his homeland where he ran a black market operation under the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini, and his return to New York where Genovese made a fortune as the head of an illegal narcotics empire.As a member of Giuseppe Joe the Boss Masserias gang in New York City, Genovese ran rackets before joining forces with Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky, and Bugsy Siegel as bootleggers during Prohibition. He helped orchestrate Masserias slaughter on behalf of Brooklyn crime lord Salvatore Maranzano, consolidating his position and power before ensuring Maranzano, too, was knocked off. For the next three decades, Vito Genoveseshrewd, merciless, and utterly savagekilled countless gangsters in his bid to become the capo di tutti i capiboss of bossesin the American Mafia. Don Vito would betray some of the mafias most notorious bosses, including Albert Anastasia and Frank Costello, to eventually seize control of the Luciano crime family, one that still bears the Genovese name today.
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