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for sopranos Watchers, godfather Aficionados, And All Other Mafia Buffs, This Is The Gripping Story Of The Birth Of The Italian Mafia In America. before The Five Families Who So Notoriously Dominated U.s. Organized Crime For A Bloody Half-century, There Was The One-fingered, Surpassingly Cunning Giuseppe Morello And His Murderous Coterie Of Brothers. 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... the Washington Post - Jonathan Yardley morello—not Vito Genovese, Not Al Capone, Not Lucky Luciano, Not Any Of Those Creeps Who Paraded Before The Senate's Kefauver Committee Which Investigated Organized Crime In The Early 1950s—was The True Father Of The American Mafia. Dash Leaves No Doubt About That. A British Historian And Journalist Whose Capacity For Research Appears To Be Limitless, Dash Has Dug Into Tons Of Material And Emerged With A Work Of Popular History—written In Lively, Lucid Prose, With A Strong Narrative Line And A Wealth Of Anecdote, Much Of It Gory—that Seems Likely To Be The Definitive Work On Its Subject For Years To Come.