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8 best books like King of the Godfathers (Anthony M. DeStefano): The Valachi Papers (aka The Canary That Sang), Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America, The Good Rat, Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti, The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America, The Black Hand: The Bloody Rise and Redemption of "Boxer" Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer, The Fortunate Pilgrim

The Valachi Papers (aka The Canary That Sang)
AuthorPeter Maas
The First Inside Account of the Mafia

In the 1960s a disgruntled soldier in New York's Genovese Crime Family decided to spill his guts. His name was Joseph Valachi. Daring to break the Mob's code of silence for the first time, Valachi detailed the organization of organized crime from the capos,...
Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series
AuthorDavid Pietrusza
ISBN0786712503
History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld genius. The real-life model for The Great Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Rothstein was much more—and less—than a fixer of baseball games. He was everything that made...
Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America
AuthorDana Milbank
ISBN0385533888
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank takes a fair and balanced look at the unsettling rise of the silly Fox News host Glenn Beck.

Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that “the tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”...
The Good Rat
AuthorJimmy Breslin
ISBN0060856661
Of course Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin recognized Burton Kaplan right away as the Mafia witness of the ages. Breslin comes from the same Queens streets as mob bosses John Gotti and Vito Genovese. But even they couldn't match Kaplan in crime—and neither could anybody else.

In his inimitable...
Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti
AuthorGene Mustain
ISBN0028644166
John Gotti is terminally ill; when he passes on to that great Mafia in the sky, co-author Capeci will be in great demand for interviews and will the plug the book. As he battles terminal cancer in a federal prison in Illinois, John Gotti, still the acting head of the Gambino Mafia family, is constantly in...
The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America
AuthorGus Russo
ISBN1582342792
The never-before-told story of the great Chicago crime family called The Outfit.

It is a common misperception that all the true-life organized crime stories have been written. Yet perhaps the most compelling gangster tale is one that has been, until now, too well-hidden. This is the story...
The Black Hand: The Bloody Rise and Redemption of "Boxer" Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer
AuthorChris Blatchford
An intense and shocking inside look at the inner workings of La Eme, the Mexican Mafia (La Familia Mexicana), The Black Hand is the story of loyal soldier Rene “Boxer” Enriquez, his life of crime, and his ultimate redemption. Award-winning investigative journalist and author Chris Blatchford...
The Fortunate Pilgrim
AuthorMario Puzo
ISBN0345476727
Before The Godfather and The Last Don, there was Puzo's classic story about the loves, crimes and struggles confronted by one family of New York City immigrants living in Hell's Kitchen. Fresh from the farms in Italy, Lucia Santa struggles to hold her family together in a strange land. At turns poignant,...
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