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notes The following abbreviations are used for frequently cited sources: CA Chicago American CD Chicago Defender CDN Chicago Daily News CDT Chicago Daily Tribune CR-H Chicago Record-Herald CS Chicago Sun CST Chicago Sun Times Preface 1. Jerald E. Caiden, “What Should be Done about Organized Crime,” in The Politics and Economics of Organized Crime, ed. Alex N. Caiden (Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath, 1985), 149. 2. John Landesco, Organized Crime in Chicago (1929; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968); James T. Carey, Social and Public Affairs (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1975), 148. 3. Howard Abadinsky, The Mafia in America (New York: Praeger, 1981); Donald Cressey, “The Functions and Structures of Criminal Syndicates,” Task Force Report : Organized Crime (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967); Annelise G. Anderson, The Business of Organized Crime: A Cosa Nostra Family (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution, 1979); Francis A. J. Ianni and Elizabeth ReussIanni , A Family Business (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1972). 4. Francis A. J. Ianni, Black Mafia (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974), 17. 5. Illinois Institute of Technology, A Study of Organized Crime in Illinois (Chicago: Chicago Crime Commission, 1971), v–vi. 6. Barney G. Glaser and Anselim L. Strauss, The Discovery of Grounded Theory (New York: Aldine, 1967), 163. 7. President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice, Task Force Report: Organized Crime (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967), 34. 8. Norman Denzin, The Research Act (Chicago: Aldine, 1970). Introduction 1. Hearings before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, 83rd Congress, 1st session, 1953; Estes C. Kefauver, Crime in America (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951), 1. 2. Hearings before the Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor and Management Field, 85th Congress, 1st session, 1957;“Police Nab 67 Mafia Chiefs,” CDT, 14 November 1957. 3. Donald Cressey, “The Functions and Structures of Criminal Syndicates,” in President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice, Task Force Report: Organized Crime (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967), 1. 4. Ibid. 5. Donald R. Cressey, Theft of the Nation: The Structure and Operations of Organized Crime in America (New York: Harper and Row, 1969); Ralph F. Salerno and John S. Tompkins, The Crime Confederation (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969). 6. Federal Bureau of Investigation, “La Cosa Nostra Chicago Division,” File 926054 , 16 July 1964. 7. Federal Bureau of Investigation, “La Cosa Nostra,” Italian Organized Crime, FBI.gov, http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/orgcrime/lcn/lcn.htm (accessed 14 July 2006). 8.Walter Lippman,“The Underworld as Servant,”in Organized Crime in America: A Book of Readings, ed. Gus Tyler (1962; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1967), 59; Frederic D. Homer, Guns and Garlic: Myths and Realities of Organized Crime (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1974), 63. 9. Kefauver, Crime in America, 1. 10. William H. Moore, The Kefauver Committee and the Politics of Crime (Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1974), x. 11. Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the 1950s (New York: Free Press, 1960), 117; Francis A. J. Ianni, Black Mafia: Ethnic Succession in Organized Crime (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974), 13; Eric McKitrick, “The Study of Corruption,” Political Science Quarterly 122 (December 1957): 502–14. 12. Jackson Toby, “Hoodlum or Businessman: An American Dilemma,” in The Jews, ed. Marshall Sklare (Glencoe: Free Press, 1958), 548. 13. Bell, End of Ideology, 128 14. Herbert Asbury, The Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld (1928; DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1986), 105. 212 notes to introduction [18.226.150.175] Project MUSE (2024-04-24 12:24 GMT) 15. John D. Buenker, Urban Liberalism and Progressive Reform (New York: Scribner, 1973), 2. 16. Madison Grant and Charles Davidson, eds., The Alien in Our Midst (New York: Galton Publishing, 1930), 53, 204. 17. Joseph R. Gusfield, Symbolic Crusade: Status, Politics, and the American Temperance Movement (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1986). 18. Mark H. Haller,“Organized Crime in Urban Society: Chicago in the Twentieth Century,” Journal of Social History 5 (1971–1972): 210–34. 19. Humbert S. Nelli, The Business of Crime: Italians and Syndicate Crime in the United States (New York: Oxford Press, 1976), 25. 20. Cressey, “Functions and Structures,” 54. 21. Irving A. Spergel, Racketville, Slumtown, Haulburg (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964), 44; Francis A. J. Ianni and Elizabeth Reuss-Ianni, A Family Business: Kinship and Social Control in Organized...

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