The American Mafia - Three: The Castellammare War…

Tales of History and Imagination

This week we conclude our mob Tale. With the bosses banged up, the Morello family must do their best to navigate a rapidly changing world - and several vicious wars. How will they deal with upstarts, Kings, The Camorra, prohibition - and the arrival of a Fifth Family?

Admin Note: Apologies for the messy scheduling of late. I’ve been a little worn out from everyday job stuff, a number of recent current events have been adding to the drain… and I’m well overdue a week of ‘me time’ away from the 9 to 5. I think I’m on the upswing, finally…

Also, I normally try to give myself a mid-season break after episode 10, where I’ll drop a couple of episodes I’ve prepared earlier. Cause this one ran to three parts I’m taking that break now, at episode 12. I’ll have a re-upload of 2021’s The Max Headroom Incident to drop in a little over a week’s time; a biographical piece on the Astronomer Tycho Brahe to drop two weeks after that, and a Patreon Pledge week (thanks to the Patrons for this one) where I’ll drop four minisodes from 2023 into the feed over four days… I’ll be back, all rested and good to go - two weeks after that.

Sources Include:

The First Family; Terror, Extortion and the Birth of the American Mafia by Mike Dash
Five Families by Selwyn Raab
The Black Hand by Stephan Talty
The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury

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