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Honor thy father is a 1971 book by gay talese, about the travails of the bonanno crime family in the 1960s, especially salvatore bonanno and his father. But the inside book that has so far eluded other writers has now been written by bestselling author gay talese. This is the dual semipersonal history of joseph bonanno and his son bill, whom talese knew and saw on occasion for some years, one of the first of the 24 families which according to legend, originated over there with the anguished ma fia outcry of a mother. The electrifying true story of the rise and fall of new yorks notorious bonanno crime family on new yorks park avenue on a rainy tuesday night in october 1964, the famous mafia chieftain joseph bonanno was kidnapped by two mobsters and reported by the police as dead on the following morning.
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