When Selwyn Raab first published his 765-page jeremiad Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires, the year was 2005 and the Mob was, in Raab’s words, “a ...

Selwyn Raab recently met with Gotham Gazette's Reading NYC Book Club to discuss his book Five Families: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires, a history of the Mafia ...

Face it — there will always be a market for certain books. Chronicling the Kennedys, the Nazis or, as Selwyn Raab has done, the Mafia seems to guarantee a certain sales threshold. Quality is seldom an ...

Margarida Bastos is a native Portuguese writer with an avid interest in gaming, anime, theatre, books, film and TV. Essentially, everything that has to do with the multifaceted nature and fascinating ...

When alleged Gambino family boss Francesco “Frank” Cali was gunned down in front of his car outside his Staten Island home earlier this month, many people were stunned. The murder was the first ...

Chris Cuomo, Anchor of CNN's Cuomo Prime Time, shares the challenges the media faces today and covering the Trump administration; Selwyn Raab, Investigative Journalist and Author of “Five Families,” ...

The aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks revitalized New York City's mafia organizations. That's one of the revelations of former New York Times crime reporter Selwyn Raab's new book, Five Families: The ...

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On the C-SPAN Networks: Selwyn Raab is an Author with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2005 Interview. Mr. Raab was interviewed at the New York Times Great Read in the ...

Selwyn Raab, an investigative journalist whose reporting into wrongful prosecutions helped overturn the murder conviction of boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and cleared another suspect in a case that ...