This is my second go at this review. I didn’t feel as though my initial review was in-depth enough. The word “mafia” first began appearing in the mid- to late-1800s in Italy, and the criminal underworld had certainly existed for centuries. But The Godfather really created much of what we think of when we here the word “mafia”. And there’s a logic reason for this: JFK. Prior to the early 1960s, movies depicting organized crime (like 1932’s Scarface) didn’t talk about “the mafia”. They were “gangster […]
Sold 9 million copies in two years, and was adapted into one of the best movies ever made. It holds up pretty well.
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
