How did the mafia first take root in the United States? We’ll talk with historian Mike Dash whose new book is “The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder and the Birth of the American Mafia” (Random House, 2009).
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How did the mafia first take root in the United States? We’ll talk with historian Mike Dash whose new book is “The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder and the Birth of the American Mafia” (Random House, 2009).