The First Family Audiobook by Mike Dash

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/64/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The First Family Subtitle: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia Author: Mike Dash Narrator: Lloyd James Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins Language: English Release date: 09-21-09 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 95 votes Genres: History, American Publisher's Summary: Born into a life of poverty in rural Sicily, Morello became an American nightmare, pioneering the bizarre initiation rituals, imaginative protection rackets, influential underworld reigns, and Mafia wars later popularized by countless books, television shows, and movies. In The First Family, Mike Dash tells the little known story of the Morello family. He follows the birth of the Mafia in America from the 1890s to the 1920s, from the wharves of New Orleans - where Morello himself disembarked in the United States - to the streets of Little Italy. Using previously untapped secret service archives, prison records, and interviews with surviving family members, Dash brings to life the remarkable villains and unusual heroes of the Mafia's early years, from the colorful members of the Morello family to Joseph Petrosino, an Italian cop with a thick Naples accent, and William Flynn, a dogged U.S. Secret Service agent, who banded together to bring down Morello. More than just a pulse-quickening Mafia narrative, The First Family is the first authoritative account of a particularly crucial period in American history, in which the modern American underworld was born. Critic Reviews: "Readers may think they know the mob, but Morello's ruthless rule makes even the fictional Tony Soprano look tame." ( Publishers Weekly)