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The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather

The Art of Manliness

CHAPTER

Mario Puzo's Dreams

Mario Puzo grew up in an Italian-American neighborhood. He was around mobsters all of his life, but he said he never had met a genuine gangster. The Kefauver hearings on organized crime were being held in 14 cities across America and nationally televised. Everybody was glued to their television sets, watching these hearings,. And is that what inspired him to write? I'm going to write a mafia novel.

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