Best-selling author Russell Shorto , praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past.
Then an elderly relative prodded: You\'re a writer--what are you gonna do about the story? Smalltime is a mob Story straight out of central casting--but with a difference, for the small-town mob, which.
He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob boss but maintained an unspoken Family vow of silence.
Best-selling author Russell Shorto , praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past