#72 - The Mob Historian: An Episode You Can't Refuse

Christian Cipollini writes very good books about very bad things. This is a very good podcast about those same very bad things. In this edition of The Aidan Project , Christian Cipollini, an award-winning historian of the criminal underworld, discusses organised crime, the mob and some of its most notorious characters. Charles "Lucky" Luciano is a particular person of interest for Christian, and with good reason. Luciano, an Italian mobster in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, is considered by some to be the father of modern organised crime. Aidan and Christian discuss Luciano, the definition of 'mob' and 'mafia', prohibition, violence, Hollywood's obsession with gangsters, and much more. Christian has been a featured expert guest on numerous television documentaries for various broadcasters, including the History Channel and National Geographic. For more information on Christian, you can visit Stache Publishing's author profile, including a look at Christian's remarkable graphic novels, at , you can head to Christian's website at , you can browse his impressive Amazon author page at for the United States, or for the United Kingdom. Expanded show notes are available at

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#72 - The Mob Historian: An Episode You Can't Refuse is an episode from The Aidan Project by Aidan Coughlan.

This episode is 01:10:13 long.

This episode was published on Feb 9, 2018.

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