Organized crime and American power : a history / Michael Woodiwiss.
"Popular histories of organized crime in the United States often look to the "Mafia" and the sons of early twentieth-century immigrants--such as Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Meyer Lansky--for their origins. In this second edition of Organized Crime and American Power, Michael Woodiwi...
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Organized Crime and the Rise of American Power, 1789-1900
- Whitewash: Supremacist Crime in the South and Its Loss from the "Organized Crime" Narratives
- Organized Crime and Business Power, 1865 to the Present
- America's Moral Crusade and the Organization of Illegal Markets, 1789 to the Present
- The Dumbing of Organized Crime Discourse, 1835 to the Present
- White Supremacy to Mass Gang Production: The Political Organization of Crime in America
- American Power and the Dumbing of Global Discourse, 1945 to the Present.