Gangster Book Is More Vegetable Than Meat

In 2009, Marc Mappen – a former dean at Rutgers University then serving as executive director of the New Jersey Historical Commission – and Rutgers University Press published a book titledThere’s More to New Jersey Than The Sopranos.

It’s true, there is much more to the state than crime families real or imagined, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi and exits off the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway. New Jersey truly was the “Crossroads of the American Revolution.”