Man of Honour: Autobiography of a Godfather

Here is the autobiography of the most famous and powerful men in that shadowy, fascinating world which outsiders have come to call the mafia, or dismissed as organized crime. Told in his own detailed and unvarnished life story. Here is the autobiography of the man who has been called the father of fathers and whose career spans the era from the roaring twenties-the time of Capone, Masseria, Maranzano, prohibition, and the Castellammarese war-to the present. Bonanno gives an extraordinary and intimate picture of that Sicilian Society in which he came of age: a society of terrible pride, of deeply rooted traditions, of vendentta and omerta, of violence and sudden death.Bonanno explains the history of that tradition and a way of life- his own father left a seminary in Sicily to avenge brother-which he writes of with priide as a society of men of honor and respect.