The American Mafia has long held powerful sway over our collective cultural imagination. But how many of us truly understand how a clandestine Sicilian criminal organisation came to exert its influence over nearly every level of American society?
In BORGATA: RISE OF EMPIRE, former Mafia member Louis Ferrante pulls back the curtain on the criminal organisation that transformed America. From the potent political cauldron of nineteenth-century Sicily to the gangster's paradise of Las Vegas in the 1960s, Ferrante traces the social, economic, and political forces that powered the Mafia's unstoppable rise. We follow the early mob as they provide alcohol to the American public during prohibition, aid U.S. Naval Intelligence during World War II, establish a gambling mecca in the Nevada desert - and unofficially take control of the island of Cuba.
Ferrante's vivid portrayal of early American mobsters - among them Lucky Luciano, Vito Genovese, Frank Costello and Meyer Lansky - fills in crucial gaps in Mafia history to deliver the most comprehensive account yet of the world's most famous criminal fraternity.
