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Bringing Down the Mob: The War Against the American Mafia Paperback – September 4, 2007

by Thomas Reppetto (Author)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Holt Paperbacks; 1st edition (September 4, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0805086595
  • ISBN-13: 978-0805086591
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsAnother impressive book by this author!
By The Historian on June 24, 2007
Format: Hardcover
After reading "American Mafia: A History of Its Rise to Power" l looked forward to the author's second book on the history of the decline of the American Mafia and am happy to write that l thoroughly enjoyed it and in fact it is superior to his first book. Thomas Reppetto brings his substantial experience of law enforcement combined with his brilliant historical analysis of organized crime and is able to write a precise, informative and profound book. If you only read two books on the history of the American Mafia you cannot go wrong if you read these two books.

The book begins with the famous raid on a meeting of national mafia kingpins at Apalachin on a mild November day in 1957 led by Detective Sergeant Edgar Croswell of the New York State Police. The author debunks the theory it was a random raid by some hick country cops but a predetermined blow at organized crime by a polished and professional group of able and determined policeman. So this chapter sets the tone of the book as it details the efforts of the various state and Federal Police Agencies and Justice Departments (including the FBI playing catch-up after years of neglect by Hoover) to gain intelligence about the illegal operations of the mafia families and its mobsters with a view to putting the mafia families out of business (such as construction, transport, union racketeering, garbage disposal, fruit and meat markets, share trading and allowing legitimate business to flourish without criminal interference) and putting the mobsters away in jail for as long as possible.

The law enforcement agencies were helped in their task by favorable Federal Government legislation from the 1960's onward.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsAnd now the Mob's decline
By Derrick Peterman on June 10, 2008
Format: Paperback
I enjoyed Reppetto's previous book, American Mafia, which described the ascendancy of the American Mafia from the late 1800's to the mid-50's. After providing the rise of the Mob, now Reppetto gives us the fall.

This book starts with the Apalachin raid on a Mafia conference in upstate New York State, which caught the Mafia off guard, seemingly by a small town police department in 1957. It is here where Reppetto dates the start of the mob's downfall. Over the next five decades, increased focus on the Mafia from prosecutors and the FBI, new laws such as the RICO statutes, and Mafia incompetence decimated this once proud organization. One only needs to compare movies like the first Godfather movie from the early 70's and the Soprano's television series to see how the mafia declined in America's popular culture from a secret group of men of honor engaged in illegal business, to a cartoonish group of morally bankrupt thugs.

I actually liked this book better than American Mafia, as it was easier to follow and was a more coherent history, rather than a loosely held collection of stories which sometime distracted from Reppetto's previous work. It's no small feat to write a five decade history of an loosely affiliated organizations all over the United States, but Reppetto provides an effective history that never gets bogged down in detail or seems too fragmented. He also writes with dark humor, no doubt developed during his years in law enforcement that embellishes this work, and never seems inappropriate. Highly recommended for Mafia buffs out there.
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3.0 out of 5 starsThis book is great for the beginner in reading organized crime books
By ruger4 on March 2, 2016
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This book is great for the beginner in reading organized crime books.It was a rehash of a lot of things that are and were already well known.I don't think I read one thing in the book that I had not read before elsewhere.On the plus side the author did a good job in the time table of all the events here in this book.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA police like style to discussing the mob
By William D. Tompkins on May 22, 2007
Format: Hardcover
This book is written in a tex-book style which is so perfectly crafted with police like detail to thehistory of mob events. The only mis-representation for the book is the cover which almost led me to believe that this would have been written with a yellow journalism tinge to it, rather the book is crafted most perfectly and reads with absolute flow.
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5.0 out of 5 starsAuthentic and Authoritative
By Richard J. Brzeczek on May 30, 2007
Format: Hardcover
There are few people who can chronicle a topic in criminal justice with the scholarly erudition of Tom Reppetto. He combines his innate brilliance, his distinguished law enforcement career and his superb academic credentials in presenting a factual, detailed and accurate account of the government's efforts against the criminality of the American Mafia. The precision of his definition as well as his dedication to a factual accounting sets him apart from other authors writing about the "mafia" with their primary objective of appealing to the prurient entertainment interests of the unwary American reader. If you want to know [...] the American Mafia, Mr. Reppetto's works are a must read. Standing above and apart from the "spaccones", he is distinguished in his efforts.
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