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Excellent Cadavers: Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic
by: Alexander Stille

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 364
EAN: 9780099594918
ISBN: 0099594919
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: June 06, 1996
Publisher: Vintage
Studio: Vintage
Sales Rank: 75861

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- Brilliant story of modern Sicilian history.
Stille's book shows a side of Sicily and Italy that most of us are vaguely aware of,but submerge in "Godfather"-style cliches.
The Sicilian mafia are far more horrific than the Hollywood rendition,living off the misery of terrified Sicilians.Stille points out Mafia control of heroin traffiking(leading to the zombie-like world of junkiedom for many young Sicilians),protection rackets,tax fraud and their links with corrupt politicians are a cancer inside Sicilian and Italian society.Note well that the first victims of the Mafia,either in Italy or in the Italian diaspora worldwide,are other Italians-so much for the Mafia as being somehow protecting Italians.
The other side of Stille's story is the suicidal bravery of a small number ... Read More:

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- gripping!
no doubt the most definitive account of the anti-mafia trials and tribulations in englsh.
"stille has stlye"
superbly written !

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- Very readable introduction
Stille's book provides a wonderfully readable introduction into the Italian, and more specifically the Sicilian, mafia's control over Italian society and government. It is particularly interesting in providing links between mafiosi and government officials and politicians, and the ensuing Mani Pulite scandal. This book definitely wins on readability and for all those starting to study the Cosa Nostra this is a fantastic first book to start with.

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- Excellent Cadavers.
Brilliant, incisive and ludicrously well researched and detailed. It isfluent and contains details which are hard to find in dozens of otherbooks on exactly the same topic. Stille has excelled with this book and Ihave frequently referenced this book for my thesis.The themes are horrificbut the book, brilliant, reads like a novel.Buy it.

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- Brilliant (but numbing) story well written and researched
I can add little to all the other reviewers great praise for a book thatcompeletely destroys the Godfather/Sopranos image that seems to grip themedia whenever the Mafia/Cosa Nostra is covered. Highly recommended!
As this book shows in painstaking detail, the continual dangerousinterplay between endemic corruption and the related violence it producedin Sicily alongside the Italian political model in Sicily and Rome of thepost war years created a culture that was ultimately to cost Italy interms of economic development and lead in part to the country's majorbudget deficits of recent years.
It took the courage of the two heroes of this story plus many others namedin the book, most of whom were sadly killed before the final fruits oftheir ... Read More:

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