Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family

I realize some reviewers have not received this book favorably because it doesn't contain any new information. However, who among us is such an expert that we know all there is to know in this book of over 400 pages? I feel this book covers the history of the Gambino crime family from the years 1931 beginning with the Mangano brothers through 1992 with John Gotti. We meet all the thugs, and that's what they are, thugs and nothing more, such as Albert "The Mad Hatter" Anastasia, the ever-smiling everyone's grandfather Carlo Gambino, the profane adulterer Paul Castellano, and John Gotti, the man wearing the $2,000.00 suit to accompany his cesspool mouth. In addition we are treated to a number of underbosses as well.Understand this: The oath of Omerta is meaningless. Gangsters will sing to the law in order to save their own skin. Other thugs know this as well as witnessed by their ordering the killing of those who can testify against them for some crime that has been committed. John Gotti's vanity and loose lips did him in. They put up an artificial front for their adoring public, but when amongst their own they show they possess an extremely limited vocabulary.It's fun to read about the mobsters, but in reality as this book aptly illustrates they are responsible for countless murders and an increase in prices that are passed on to all of us consumers as they rake in the millions through use of their barbaric tactics. They are nothing but a drag on society.

This is a well written, solid book about the Gambino Family through the decades. It starts with its inception and finishes with John Gotti going to prison.The book is full of interesting stories about Mafia people throughout the Gambino history. The book isn't short, isn't fluff. Very substantial, well researched and well written. I highly recommend it.The book was written in the 1990s soon after Gotti's last trial, which he lost. Looks like the print book was scanned and turned into the Kindle version. It's a mess. Every paragraph, probably every sentence, has weird spelling and punctuation. It would be nice if the publisher would re-do the scan and clean up the spelling and formatting. It's very irritating and disruptive to read the book the condition it is now.Also, no photos in the Kindle book. Surely the publisher can find a few that are ok for a digital book.

This was an informative and entertaining read, especially the rise and especially the fall of John Gotti, but there were some problems that the editors or Amazon could have and should correct. First the good. There was some entertaining and informative details about Gotti, and especially his last trial that any fan of true crime or Mafia stories will enjoy. There was also quite a bit of information about the beginnings of Cosa Nostra and the Gambino family, especially considering the secrecy and mystery of that world before wire taps and informats were around to lift the veil. In my opinion there were only two negative problems with this book. First there were several parts of the book that were repeated word for word several times throughout the book, mainly regarding tapes of Gotti. The book would quote the tapes and a few chapters later in a trial they would appear again, and then a few chapters later, they would be show up some more. Even though it sometimes was frustrating and maybe could have been cleaned up, at times some of the repeated stories were helpful, so it didn't bother me too bad. The other problem did bother me. There were several typos that at times made it difficult to follow. By reading this review it should be obvious I am no grammar cop. I'm not talking about a misspelled word or a missing comma,. There were names that only had one or two letters, and several times a name or word was replaced by numbers, like the writer but the number lock key, the editors missed it and apparently no one at Amazon caught it either when it was being written for a digital copy. Before writing the review, I looked and it was written in 1993. So either since 1993 the author, none of the author 's family, or the publisher read this book, or the mistakes were made when it was converted to digital. Either way, parts of the book was hard to understand. It was like a test where they give you the first and last letter of a word and humble everything else up, except worse and for 200 pages. The only other thing I would add is that it would have been nice for someone to have added a chapter or two to follow up on the family in the last 25 years since this book was written. If you are a fan, it's worth struggling through the errors to read this.

Very detailed and accurate look at the history of organized crime in New York. Good read if you can tolerate significant and numerous editing issues.

The typos are in bunches. But worth it to get the story through 1994. The author did a great job.

Like everything to do with the mafia

From the early days of the Gambino family, a large organization of the American Mafia, to the era when John GOTTI was the boss, this work focuses on successive bosses and incidents.There is quite a lot of it, and I haven't read it yet, but I think it's fulfilling.However, it is a pity that there are no photos of the parties. If you have a picture, you can concretely imagine them..

This really is a brilliant account of the rise of the mob and its subsequent downfall. It is really well written, factual and fascinating, albeit a little explicit in places. I've read many many books about the mafia and visited all of the US related places of interest and memorials. This book really is the best account of them all.

This book does not download very well as a Kindle version. It is full of typing and formatting mistakes plus any images do not show up. Content of the book is very good but spolit by the worse formatting I have ever seen in a Kindle book.

I HAVE JUST STARTED READING THIS BOOK, AND SO FAR IT HAS MET MY EXPECTATIONS

Bought for my nephew who said he very much enjoyed this excellent book. He's into all that crime stuff anyways. Delivery and packaging were excellent.

a good book for the enthusiast, accurate and detailed a great read if you like this sort of thing as i do