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An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

An Offer You Can't Refuse is a podcast that focuses on the history of organized crime in the United States. It employs an academic approach to its study in that it places organized crime within the broader context of American history.

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An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

We Only Close for Revolutions: the Sex Trade, the Mob, and the Cuban Revolution

2024-08-15 • 32min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

BONUS EPISODE: Interview of Historian, Frank Argote-Freyre

2024-08-09 • 58min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

BONUS EPISODE: Interview of Crime Journalist, Chris Dalby

2024-05-19 • 53min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

"The Man with the Bad Eyes": Santo Trafficante, the Florida Don

2023-12-31 • 39min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

BONUS EPISODE: the Ambiance Affluence: the Famed Casinos of Havana

2023-12-15 • 38min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

"A Sucker's Paradise": Meyer Lansky and the Making of the Havana Mob

2023-10-12 • 47min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

"Bigger than U.S. Steel": Mainstreaming Crime in the Postwar Era

2023-08-03 • 36min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

A Hoodlum Complex: Frank Sinatra, American Mass Culture, and the Mob

2023-07-06 • 1h 11min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

BONUS EPISODE: Sin City, USA: the Culture of Conformity, the Sex Industry, and Las Vegas

2023-03-22 • 2h 4min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

BONUS EPISODE: "A Place in the Sun": the Sands Hotel and Casino and the Mob

2023-02-02 • 37min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

BONUS EPISODE: "Welcome to the Moulin Rouge": Joe Louis, Civil Rights, and Mid-Century Las Vegas

2023-01-12 • 42min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

BONUS EPISODE: The Eyes of Texas: Benny Binion, the Horseshoe Casino, and the Evolution of Las Vegas

2022-12-29 • 27min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

BONUS EPISODE: "Uncle Charlie Killed Dutch Schultz," an Interview with Author Alan Geik

2022-12-21 • 33min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

BONUS EPISODE: Benjamin Siegel and the Opening Night at the "Fabulous" Flamingo, December 26, 1946

2022-12-15 • 20min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

The Desert Oasis: the Mafia's Takeover of Las Vegas, 1941-1947

2022-12-08 • 42min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

For Love of Country...and Family: the Mafia, World War II, and Operation Underworld

2022-10-14 • 45min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

Anti-Fascist Mafiosi: Organized Crime's Fight Against American Fascism

2022-10-03 • 1h 9min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

Hollywood Mafia: the Rackets and Los Angeles' Gangsters

2022-09-01 • 1h 10min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

Mafia Manifest Destiny: the Emergence of a West Coast Mob

2022-09-01 • 57min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

"I Do to Others What They Do to Me...Only Worse": Jimmy Hoffa, the Teamsters, and Organized Crime

2022-03-04 • 36min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

Goons and Ginks and Company Finks: Organized Crime and Organized Labor in the Great Depression

2022-02-06 • 43min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

The Lean Years? The Mafia Business Ventures during the Great Depression

2022-02-04 • 45min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

The Law is Bigger Than Money - But Only If the Law Works Harder: the Fall of Charles "Lucky" Luciano

2022-01-21 • 37min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

Get "Mr. Big": Law Enforcement Efforts to Counter the Emergence of Organized Crime

2022-01-17 • 42min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

Bonus Episode: the 1919 Black Sox Scandal and the Convergence of Sport and Organized Crime

2022-01-10 • 44min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

The Commission: the Emergence of a National Crime Syndicate in the United States

2022-01-08 • 51min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

The Chicagoland Beer Wars: Violence and the Dilemma of Territorial Boundaries in Organized Crime

2021-12-30 • 34min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

Gangsterism: the Historic Criminal Careers of Enoch Johnson, Johnny Torrio, Arnold Rothstein

2021-12-26 • 56min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

Modern Times: Prohibition, Organized Crime, and the Emergence of a National Culture

2021-12-22 • 1h 30min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

The Bonanza of Prohibition: the Business of Bootlegging and the Empowerment of Organized Crime

2021-12-01 • 47min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

The "Noble Experiment": Prohibition and the Making of the Mob

2021-11-23 • 47min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

The Age of Reform: Middle Class Reformers, Xenophobia, and the Advancement of Organized Crime

2021-11-17 • 59min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

They Wanted Booze, Broads, and Gambling...So That's What We Gave Them

2021-11-11 • 1h 6min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

A Prelude to the Mob: the Making of the Pre-Modern Mafia

2021-11-07 • 41min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

John "Old Smoke" Morrissey: America's First Mob Boss

2021-08-16 • 54min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

Beginnings: On the Banks of 'Mud City', USA

2021-08-06 • 45min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

Beginnings: David Hennessey, Inter-Ethnic Relations, and Organized Crime in New Orleans

2021-08-01 • 53min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

Salutations, Friends! A Brief Introduction to the Study of the History of Organized Crime

2021-07-30 • 14min
An Offer You Can't Refuse: the History of Organized Crime in the United States

Beginnings: Frederika "Marm" Mandelbaum, New York City, and the Origins of Organized Crime in the US

2021-07-30 • 1h 13min