· Deep Water is the historical biography of Joseph P. Macheca. In 19th Century New Orleans, Macheca was a pioneer of commerce, a Confederate privateer and, according to legend, the godfather of the first Mafia organization to germinate in American bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins. Legend has credited Macheca with being the earliest Mafia `godfather'. Authors Thomas Hunt and Martha Sheldon make a convincing argument for the theory that the lynching of Macheca and ten of his alleged co-conspirators was not a random and rabid act of mob retribution for Hennessey's death, but rather a spectacular execution whose victims had been chosen well in bltadwin.rus: · Hunt interviewed for Newsday article. Thomas Hunt, coauthor of Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia and publisher of The American Mafia website (bltadwin.ru) was interviewed recently by reporter Keiko Morris for a New York Newsday story. Giovanni Zarcone, resident of Brooklyn and owner of a Manhattan butcher shop, was among .
Thomas Hunt Writer, editor, researcher, web publisher, specializing in organized crime history. coauthor of Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia and DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime; contributor of American Mafia history to Australian-published Mafia: The Necessary Reference to Organized Crime;. Hunt, Thomas, and Martha Macheca Sheldon. Deep Water: Joseph P Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia. New York: iUniverse, Rousey, Dennis Charles. Policing the Southern City: New Orleans, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, Additional Data. Thomas Hunt has written, co-written, edited and contributed to books on the history of the American Mafia, including Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia, DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime and Wrongly Executed? The Long-Forgotten Context of Charles Sberna's Electrocution.
America's First Mafia War:New Orleans, ‑ America's First Mafia War: New Orleans, ‑ [Note: This article is an excerpt from Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia by Thomas Hunt and Martha Macheca Sheldon, published by iUniverse, , and Createspace, ] On Wednesday evening, Oct. 28, , the Innocenti political brigade suspended its violent Presidential election season rampages through Republican neighborhoods and headed indoors. Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia challenges the legends of the mob’s earliest days and establishes the facts of the Hennessy assassination, the Crescent City lynchings and the underworld’s close ties with the city's political machines. Building upon more than a decade of research into archival records, published and unpublished histories and Macheca family traditions, Mr. Hunt and Macheca descendant Martha Macheca Sheldon expose political. In Deep Water, Hennessy's assassination and the mass slaying of his suspected killers is revisited from the perspective of J.P. Macheca, a fruit-shipping merchant with intricate ties to the city's corrupt Democratic ring and evolving American Mafia. Legend has credited Macheca with being the earliest Mafia `godfather'.
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