Thomas Reppetto, a former commander of detectives in the Chicago Police Department, received his doctorate from Harvard and was a professor, dean, and vice president at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.
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Organized crime-the Italian American kind-has long been a source of popular entertainment and legend. Now Thomas Reppetto provides a balanced history of the Mafia's rise-from the 1880s to the post-World War II era-that is as exciting as it is authoritativ... SEE MORE