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Organized crime and american power : a history

Woodiwiss argues that organized criminal activity has never been a serious threat to established economic and political power structures in the USA but more often a fluid, variable, and open-ended phenomenon that has complemented those structures.
Print Book, English, cop. 2001
University of Toronto Press, Toronto, cop. 2001
468 p. ; 23 cm
9780802047007, 9780802082787, 0802047009, 0802082785
912193944
Old world antecedents and the rise of American power
Whitewash: racism, xenophobia, and the origins of 'organized crime' in the United States
Organized crime and corporate power, 1865-1950
America's moral crusade and the organization of illegal markets, 1789-1950
Organized crime and the dumbing of American discourse, 1920 to the present
Industrial and corporate racketeering, 1950 to the present
Drugs: private enterprise and government bounty
American power and the dumbing of global discourse