PositiveForwardEqual parts history, literary analysis and character studies, the book unveils no central cabal, but rather a group of families and individuals driven by their own tastes and prejudices...Lambert concludes that the alleged mafia was — like the sort we see in mob movies — full of eccentric, complex and capricious characters who held a lot of sway...But unlike the mafia, it had no universal rules and, strictly speaking, can’t be said to actually have existed.
