Amerikan Tabloid pt 1: Assimilation
Added 2020-12-12 02:56:39 +0000 UTCThe mafia spread from Sicily to the US in the latter half of the 19th century. Thereafter it began a slow and patient accumulation of power as it carved out a niche for itself in the multi-ethnic underbelly of the New World, until Prohibition turbo-charged the black market economy and brought killers and hustlers closer than ever to the commanding heights of American politics and big business...and planted the seeds for 100 years of deep intrigue.
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Relistening in 2024 while reading whitney webb’s one nation under blackmail. Also, boardwalk empire is one of the greatest tv shows i’ve ever watched.
John
2024-10-22 17:50:35 +0000 UTCFirst time listener, loving all the boardwalk empire music in this episode lol. Great series so far!
Oatmeal
2024-02-22 15:56:40 +0000 UTChate to sound like the pothead college kid back home for the holidays, but the deeper i get into researching all this stuff the more i'm starting to think OC and "the state" aren't as distinct as we want/would like to believe. what was the WMD myth but a classic shakedown?
pinballa
2021-01-04 15:08:16 +0000 UTC
