Italian mob bosses: Angelo Bruno, Antonio Pelle, Bernardo Provenzano, Calogero Vizzini, Carlo Gambino, Domenico Oppedisano, Frank Costello, Gaetano ... Joe Adonis, Joe Profaci, Joseph Bonanno

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: Angelo Bruno, Antonio Pelle, Bernardo Provenzano, Calogero Vizzini, Carlo Gambino, Domenico Oppedisano, Frank Costello, Gaetano Fidanzati, Gianni Nicchi, Giuseppe Morabito, Joe Adonis, Joe Profaci, Joseph Bonanno, Lucky Luciano, Mariano Agate, Matteo Messina Denaro, Salvatore Lo Piccolo, Salvatore Riina, Stefano Magaddino, Vincenzo Virga, Vito Cascioferro, Vito Genovese. Excerpt: Charles "Lucky" Luciano (pronounced ; born Salvatore Lucania November 24, 1897 - January 26, 1962), was an Italian-born, naturalized American mobster born in Sicily. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime in the United States for splitting New York City into five different Mafia crime families and the establishment of the first Commission. He was the first official boss of the modern Genovese crime family. He was, along with his associate Meyer Lansky, instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate in the United States. Salvatore Lucania was born on November 24, 1897 in Lercara Friddi, Sicily. Luciano's parents, Antonio and Rosalia Lucania, had four other children: Bartolomeo (born 1890), Giuseppe (born 1898), Filippia (born 1901), and Concetta. Luciano's father worked in a sulfur mine in Sicily. When Luciano was 10 years old (1907), the family migrated to the United States. They settled in New York City on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a popular destination for Italian immigrants. At age 14, Luciano dropped out of school and started working as a shipping clerk, earning $5 per week. However, after winning $244 in a dice game, Luciano quit his job and went to earning money on the street. That same year, Luciano's parents sent him to the Brooklyn Truant School. While a teenager, Luciano started his own gang. Unlike other street gangs whose business was petty crime, Luciano offered protection to...