Playboy's History Of Organized Crime Presents Part Xii: The American Nightmare

Playboy's History of Organized Crime Presents Part XII: The American NightmareWith considerable justification, Italian-Americans were seething by the beginning of the Seventies. In the previous 20 years--since the Kefauver hearings and on through the McClellan investigation and the disclosures of Joe Valachi--Italians and gangsters had become almost synonymous. The American public was devouring Mario Puzo's The Godfather, first as a book and then as a movie, and was generally agreed that this mu...