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Mafia Republic: Italy's Criminal Curse. Cosa Nostra, 'ndrangheta and Camorra from 1946 to the Present

John Dickie's two books, Mafia Brotherhoods and Mafia Republic, arise from a single research project on the history of Italy's mafias from their origins to the present day. The first volume ends at the Allied Liberation of Italy, and the second volume begins at the same chronological point. The opening of the second volume, Mafia Republic, inevitably involved some recapitulation and repetition of some introductory notions. For the most part in these sections of the book, however, the overlap is minimal because John Dickie found ways of telling the same story with fresh material and research: such as on the career and views of Sicilian magistrate Giuseppe Guido Lo Schiavo, the confinement in Reggio Calabria mental asylum of Giuseppe Musolino, and the later life of camorra "supergrass" Gennaro Abbatemaggio.