The Mafia: History and Legend

The Mafia: History and Legend
By Marco Gasparini
For a more journalistic approach to gangland, put this page-turner of a history book (from Flammarion) on your holiday list. Gasparini’s text is lavishly illustrated with vintage photographs, and tracks the Mafia from its birth in rural Sicily to its ongoing dominance of international crime—and popular entertainment—today.
—Peter Bloch