The Docile Don: The Violent World of Philadelphia Mob Boss Angelo Bruno

Stretching across decades and generations, this first-ever biography of Mob boss Angelo Bruno—portrayed by Harvey Keitel in The Irishman—the man behind the notorious Philadelphia crime family, tells the full story of its prosperous rise to its violent fall.

On the evening of March 21, 1980, Angelo Bruno, the formidable Mob boss who controlled the rackets in Philadelphia for more than twenty years, was shot in the back of the head outside his South Philly home. Bruno’s murder triggered decade...