Capos and Cardinals
Jonathan Steinberg, 17 August 1989
Fascism and the Mafia
by Christopher Duggan.
Yale, 322 pp., £19.95, January 1989,0 300 04372 4 Show More
by Christopher Duggan.
Yale, 322 pp., £19.95, January 1989,
A Thief in the Night: The Death of Pope John Paul I
by John Cornwell.
Viking, 301 pp., £14.95, May 1989,0 670 82387 2 Show More
by John Cornwell.
Viking, 301 pp., £14.95, May 1989,
“... the ‘Iron Prefect’, a man of undoubted rigour and fortitude, to Palermo, armed with all the powers that a dictatorial regime could provide, and let him loose on thousands of rural cattle rustlers, peasant troublemakers and others, innocent and guilty alike. Hundreds were arrested and held without trial. Others went before courts in mass trials ... ”