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The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia Audiobook, by Paul Moses Play Audiobook Sample

The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia Audiobook

The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia Audiobook, by Paul Moses Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Adam Barr Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: July 2023 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798350843408

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

25

Longest Chapter Length:

36:31 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

07:31 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

18:55 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

In Sicily, on March 12, 1909, four gunshots thundered in the night. Two men fled, and investigators soon discovered who they had killed: Giuseppe Petrosino, the legendary American detective whose exploits in New York were celebrated even in Italy.

Veteran New York City journalist and historian Paul Moses explores the lives of the nationally celebrated detectives who followed in the slain Petrosino's footsteps as leaders of the New York City investigative squad: Anthony Vachris, Charles Corrao, and Michael Fiaschetti. Drawing on new primary sources such as private diaries, and city, state, and federal documents, this narrative history follows the Italian Squad across the first two decades of the twentieth century as its detectives battled increasingly powerful gangsters, political obstacles, and deeply ingrained prejudice against their own beloved Italian immigrant community.

Vachris, Corrao, and Fiaschetti became, like Petrosino, famous for meting out tough justice to criminals who comprised the "Black Hand." Beyond trying to prevent horrific crimes—nighttime bombings, kidnappings that targeted children at play, shootings that killed innocent bystanders—the Italian Squad commanders hoped to persuade society of what they knew for themselves: that their fellow immigrant Italians, so often maligned, would make good American citizens.

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