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The parts that weren't in Mario Puzo's novel covered only one year,
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I can't believe no one has said the most blatantly obvious yet - Mario Puzo's Godfather books.
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The third, and final, installment in Mario Puzo's epic chronicle of the Corleone crime family-one of the most enduring lineages in American literature and cinema-achieves a stunning crescendo with a story that imagines the role of the Mafia in the assassination of a young, charismatic president.
The Godfather's Revenge by Mark Winegardner: Book summary 2010
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Long before "The Sopranos," a young Francis Ford Coppola transformed our understanding of the relationship between organized crime and corporate American profiteering with this operatic ode based on Mario Puzo's acclaimed novel.
John Farr: Actor's Actor: A Birthday Salute to Robert Duvall John Farr 2012
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Richard Prince 's home library has many curious artifacts, among them an asbestos-covered edition of Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," Mario Puzo's original "Godfather" manuscript and a postcard from a young Seattle musician to his father that reveals plans for a new band: the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
An Artist Amasses a Rare Collection Robert P. Walzer 2011
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And I just discovered Mario Puzo's The Godfather, which is such a brilliantly written book it's almost a crime against the Family to watch the movie - capiche?
MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2008 (Part 2) 2008
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And I just discovered Mario Puzo's The Godfather, which is such a brilliantly written book it's almost a crime against the Family to watch the movie - capiche?
December 2008 2008
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The popularity of Puzo's novel caught America by surprise because it seemed to go against the grain of everything that was dominating the news of the time: the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, Woodstock, Altamont, the moon landing, the Vietnam War.
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Italian-American gangsters were a part of our popular culture long before Puzo's novel.
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Historians of the early mob point out such names as Arnold Rothstein, Owney Madden, Meyer Lansky, Dion O'Bannon, Dutch Schultz (aka Arthur Flegenheimer) and Jack "Legs" Diamond, but in Puzo's novel, crime is treated as "La Cosa Nostra" — our thing.
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