Really great writing and seemingly the only way to get such information past the censors these days - one more thing I would have loved to see him include would

Really great writing and seemingly the only way to get such information past the censors these days - one more thing I would have loved to see him include would be Tammany Hall (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall ) - a reminder how closely politics and mobsters / organised crimes were still interconnected not so long ago (Al Capone started his career with their protection, or Lucy Luciano to name only two)