Carlo Gambino: Boss of Bosses - Hardcover

Frank DiMatteo is a lifelong Brooklynite, Mafia "survivor," and publisher of Mob Candy magazine. He is the author of Mob Candy's Brooklyn Gangsters and Manhattan Gangsters, and the co-author, along with Michael Benson, of more than half a dozen nonfiction books on the history of organized crime, including his acclaimed memoir, The President Street Boys: Growing Up Mafia. He is a retired gangster and the son of a Mob hit man, with past interviews and appearances that include the New York Post, VICE, Business Insider, Late Night with Johnny P, and One on One with Steve Adubato. He was also an expert source in the HISTORY TV documentary American Godfathers: The Five Families.

An artist, author and filmmaker, Michael Benson has pursued a wide-ranging creative practice. His work spans a range of media, from large-format photographic prints to nonfiction books and essays, illustrated books, films and visual-effects sequences. Following an influential period of engagement with the avant-gardes of the Soviet Union and former Yugoslavia, captured in feature articles for Rolling Stone magazine and his award-winning documentary Predictions of Fire (1995), Benson turned his attention to the intersection of art and science in the 2000s. Over the last two decades, he has staged a series of large-scale exhibitions of extraterrestrial planetary landscapes at venues including the American Museum of Natural History in New York (2007); the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC (2010); the Natural History Museum in London (2016); and The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University (2025). Benson's highly regarded books include Beyond (2003); Far Out (2009); Planetfall (2012); and Cosmigraphics (2014). He contributed to, and in some cases supervised the production of, the visionary cosmology sequences in Terrence Malick's films The Tree of Life (2011) and Voyage of Time (2016). His most recent book, Space Odyssey (2018), recounts the making of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Benson has had solo gallery shows in New York and London and is currently represented by Flowers Gallery in London. His work is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri; the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts; and many private collections. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic, among other venues. For the last few years Benson has been using scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) to focus on natural design at sub-millimeter scales for Nanocosmos, the project presented in this volume. A recent Visiting Scholar at the Center for Bits and Atoms at the MIT Media Lab, Michael Benson is a Fellow of the New York Institute of the Humanities. For more on his work, see www.michael-benson.com ​