Honor Thy Father by Gay Talese
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Talese needs to back off on the dry, complete courtroom testimony reprints, but the picture of real-life mafiosi living largely boring, uneventful if stressful and anxious lives while scrabbling for peanuts is revealing showing the emotional turths on the level of the economic revelations of [b:Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets|1491906|Gang Leader for a Day A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets|Sudhir Venkatesh|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1347568042s/1491906.jpg|1483174].
As for other books, the mysterious bombing that disrupted the Arizona retirement of Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno is plumbed to a deeper depth in [b:Self-Portrait of a Scoundrel|16144299|Self-Portrait of a Scoundrel|Chauncey Holt|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1356068760s/16144299.jpg|21977248].
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