RaveThe ForwardA family portrait in a unique milieu — Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren meets Irving Howe’s World of Our Fathers ... A compelling read, all the more so for how its personal investigation brushes up against American history.
Josh Lambert
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.
