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A 10 page research paper, which also includes a short abstract, that details the life and criminal career of Charles "Lucky" Luciano, a criminal genius who succeeded in reshaping the Mafia in the US from a "clan-based, haphazard crime organization" into a something more closely resembling a streamlined "corporation" (Rigby, 1999, p. 108). This examination of Luciano's life and career in crime focuses, first of all, on his background, but then recounts his rise to power and his influence over crime in America in the first half of the twentieth century. If there ever was an American criminal success story, it is Luciano's. He was "Horatio Alger with a gun" (Buchanan, 1998, p. 130). Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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the Mafia in the US from a "clan-based, haphazard crime organization" into a something more closely resembling a streamlined "corporation" (Rigby, 1999, p. 108). This examination of Lucianos life and
career in crime focuses, first of all, on his background, but then recounts his rise to power and his influence over crime in America in the first half of the
twentieth century. If there ever was an American criminal success story, it is Lucianos. He was "Horatio Alger with a gun" (Buchanan, 1998, p. 130). Charles "Lucky" Luciano
was a criminal genius who succeeded in reshaping the Mafia in the US from a "clan-based, haphazard crime organization" into a something more closely resembling a streamlined "corporation" (Rigby, 1999,
p. 108). The following examination of Lucianos life and career in crime focuses, first of all, on his background, but then recounts his rise to power and his influence over
crime in America in the first half of the twentieth century. If there ever was an American criminal success story, it is Lucianos. He was "Horatio Alger with a gun"
(Buchanan, 1998, p. 130). Biography Born Salvatore Luciana in 1897, Luciano spent his early childhood in Sicily, where his father worked in the sulfur pits (Rigby, 1999). When Luciano
was nine, his family emigrated to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, which was a rough neighborhood dominated by Italian families (Rigby, 1999). On arrival in the US, Luciano spent
the remainder of his youth on the streets of New York. During his adolescence, he met a Jewish teen, Meyer Lansky (Buchanan, 1998). This led to a merger of Jewish
and Italian gangs and a lifelong friendship between Luciano and Lansky Buchanan, 1998). Lucianos rise to power In 1931, Salvatore Maranzano was able to obtain full power over Mafia
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