MOB: History of the Italian-American Organized Crime

MOB: History of the Italian-American Organized Crime

MOB VOLUME 2FROM THE DEATH OF Lucky Luciano to the present dayCaterina Bartoldi lived for several years in Sicily and has become a Mafia specialist.In this fascinating book, which takes us from Sicily to the United States and in many other countries, she tells us a hidden story and describes the secret structures, the symbols, the ways to communicate, as well as the rules and the great figures of Cosa Nostra.For decades, Cosa Nostra has been a multifaceted, shifting organization, forced to change continuously by necessity or by strategy.We discover a rural then an urban History, local then planetary, always violent, even if the Mafia is increasingly investing in big companies and shows, to a certain extent, less brutal manners nowadays.The originality of this work lies in the parallel drawn between the Sicilian Mafia and the Italian-American Organized Crime throughout history and in the comparative study of the legal frameworks of these two countries. Going through this extraordinary investigation, which can be read like a thriller, the reader discovers the American Cosa Nostra, its traditions, its culture, and above all, the place it still occupies in the world.CATERINA BARTOLDIGraduate in High International Studies, the author brings together sociology and linguistics to explain the History and the Mafia’s cultural reasons.