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Fighting the Mafia & Renewing Sicilian Culture by Leoluca Orlando

Growing up in an aristocratic family that seems almost to have stepped out of the pages of The Leopard, Leoluca Orlando entered law and politics in the late 1970's as one of the young idealists identified with the Catholic Church who were challenging the Mafia's control of Sicilian life. At about the same moment, life in Sicily was becoming more perilous. As if the ?old" Mafia had not been bad enough, a new and particularly vicious Mafia sect based in the town of Corleone was murdering its show more way to power. Fueled by profits from the international heroin trade, this mafia gansteristica show less

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A former member of the Italian Parliament and the European Parliament, Leoluca Orlando was mayor of Palermo in the 1990s, during the "Mafia Wars." He was given the Bayard Rustin Human Rights Award for 2000 by the American Federation of Teachers.

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Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Biography & Memoir, Sociology

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364.1 — Social sciences Social problems and social services Criminology Criminal offenses

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HV6453.I83 M3574 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Crimes and offenses

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