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Mafia Princess -Growing up in Sam Giancana's Family
Mafia Princess -Growing up in Sam Giancana's Family Author:Antoinette Giancana and Thomas C. Renner Sam Giancana was once the most powerful Mafia boss west of the Mississippi, the Chicago Mafia's successor to Al Capone. Now nine years after his gangland-style slaying, his daughter Antoinette has mad public the details of her father's life and the trauma of growing up under his iron rule--all the power, corruption, luxury, and violence that cam... more »e with being a Mafia Princess. The life of a Mafia Princess was one of luxury and isolation and loneliness. When Antoinette's attempts to gain her father's attention and love fail, she rebels and her behavior scandalizes and infuriates the Chicago mob. Like her father, Antoinette liked the fast life of nightclubs and celebrities, but for the Boss's daughter, this was unforgivable. Her father forcibly restrained her by committing her to a mental institution for shock treatments. Giancana, too paid for his indiscretions and his front-page affairs when the Chicago mob murdered him days before a planned reconciliation with his daughter. The account of Sam Giancana's life documents in irrefutable detail: Sam's plots with the CIA to assassinate Fidel Castro; the executions ordered by Giancana of his friends and enemies; his close personal and professional relationship with Frank Sinatra; and his longtime and comples connection with the Kennedy family. The book also gives the public a new understanding of what life with a mobster is like for his family. We see the paranoia and brutality as well as the extreme sentimentality of the Mafia--a henchman of Giancana's dresses up as Santa for Sam's family while he is in jail; Sam's loving care of his huge collection of Venetian mirrors, Dresden china, antique music boxes, Meissen china, rare oil paintings. Media Princess is a passionate and tragic account of a father-daughter relationship that reveals the strange morality of the Mafia, on the one hand so Victorian, and on the other so vicious diabolical. These insights into a Mafia family have never been viewed before from the inside--simply because no crime boss's daughter has ever dared to talk.« less