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Summary & Analysis of Killing the Mob

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The Fight Against Organized Crime in America | A Guide to Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard's Book

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In Killing the Mob, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard chronicle the history of organized crime in the United States and describe the epic campaign that crippled the notorious criminal syndicates of the 20th century.

What does this SNAP Summary Include?

  • Synopsis of the original book
  • Key takeaways from each chapter
  • Overview of key figures in the criminal underworld of the 1930s-80s
  • Timeline of events from when members of the Sicilian Mafia arrived in New York City in the early 1900s
  • How Prohibition and the Great Depression fueled the rise of organized crime
  • How the Mafia infiltrated labor unions, presidential campaigns, and virtually every aspect of American life
  • Editorial Review
  • Background on Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard

About the Original Book:

The legends of John Dillinger, Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Bonnie and Clyde, and the dozen other gangsters who colored the last century are well known to anyone with the slightest interest in popular history. What is not well known are their back stories—the landscape that pushed them into lives of crime, the ways they worked with the federal government, and the cunning and betrayal that led to their eventual downfall.

Digging through archives, newspapers, and police records, O’Reilly and Dugard trace the rise and fall of the serial robbers of the 1930s, the growth of the Italian-American Mafia in the 40s through the 70s, and the series of events that all but wiped out America’s crime families in the mid-80s. What emerges is an account of 20th century organized crime that is as shocking as it is thrilling.


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