Gabriele Santoro

Gabriele Santoro (Rome, 1984) has been a professional journalist since 2010. He has been working at Il Messaggero since 2009 and has been writing for Minima&Moralia, Il Tascabile and Il Venerdì di Repubblica. This book is the result of long-term research and a stay in the U.S., at the JFK Presidential Library in Boston.

La scoperta di Cosa nostra

Chiarelettere editore, 2020

An investigative book that recreates the history of the discovery of the Mafia in the United States.

English sample available

Thanks to the examination of numerous archive sources, an extensive American bibliography and newspaper research, as well as the first-hand, unpublished testimony of lawyer Ronald Goldfarb, former prosecutor at the Organized Crime Section, the author reconstructs the story of Joe Valachi, considered history’s first supergrass, the son of grindingly poor Italian immigrants in New York, and the truth about the Robert Kennedy method, the first example of an anti-Mafia pool.

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