• Paul Moses on the True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia

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    In this episode, Andrew talks to the author of the Italian Squad, Paul Moses, about the true story of the early 20th-century New York cops who fought the rise of the Mafia.

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    Paul Moses is Professor Emeritus of Journalism at CUNY-Brooklyn College and a former reporter and editor at Newsday. He is the author of An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York’s Irish and Italians and The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi’s Mission of Peace.


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