Eminent Gangsters: Immigrants and the Birth of Organized Crime in America - Paperback

by James Fentress (Author)

This book explores a central and significant chapter in the social and economic history of modern America. If the story of the eminent gangsters is not the orthodox, rags-to-riches American success story, neither can it be dismissed as merely a crime story.

Author Biography

James Fentress studied at Princeton and Oxford universities. He taught political philosophy at the University of London. The author of Rebels and Mafiosi, a history of the foundation of the mafia in Sicily, Fentress has written and lectured extensively on the mafia and organized crime. He has three children and currently lives in Rome.