Mafia Academic Reviews John Dickie’s "Blood Brotherhoods"
Can you find Lucky Luciano in the picture? The NYTimes.com is publishing a review of John Dickie's "Blood Brotherhoods," and surprisingly, finds fault with it. I am currently reading Dickie's "Mafia Republic," a gigantic volume that basically serves as a consolidation of all his previous works; I don't know why the Times chose to review this particular book now. The review is written by an academic who also writes about organized crime in Italy, Alexander Stille, a professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and the author of “Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic,” which is next on my bookshelf. Divertiti! All in the Famiglia "In “Blood Brotherhoods,” the British scholar John Dickie sets himself the wildly ambitious task of writing the histories of Italy’s three major criminal organizations from their origins in the mid-19th century to the present...