Vicious Circles

By Jonathan Kwitny,

Book cover of Vicious Circles: The Mafia in the Marketplace

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This of it as a kind of tax. Every time you buy a pizza, or a hamburger, or new clothes, or use a product that has traveled in a truck, the odds are that you are paying a tribute to one of America's crime families. This book shows that the…

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1 author picked Vicious Circles as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

As a cub reporter covering Hudson County, New Jersey in the late 1970s, I had to learn quickly about how to investigate mob activity.

This book was invaluable because it detailed how the mob infiltrated legitimate businesses (meat, dairy, liquor, trucking) and unions (the Teamsters pension fund). The late Jonathan Kwitny, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, did a great service with this 1979 book.

From Paul's list on non-fiction on the New York mafia.

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