This image is the cover for the book Philadelphia's King of Little Italy, American Heritage

Philadelphia's King of Little Italy, American Heritage

"C.C.A. Baldi ruled Little Italy, and everyone who wished to deal with the Italians knew it."

Go back to turn of the century Philadelphia and discover the incredible immigrant success story of C.C.A. Baldi and his brothers as they build a business empire while pathing a path for the Italian community and becoming the King of Little Italy.

Charles G. Douglas, Victor L. Baldi III, Douglas Baldi Swift

Charles G. Douglas III was born in Abington, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Penn Charter School in Germantown in 1960. Two years later, he moved to New Hampshire, graduated from the University of New Hampshire and received his law degree from Boston University in 1968. He served as legal counsel to the governor from 1973 to 1974, when he became a judge on the Superior Court. In 1977, he became a justice on the New Hampshire Supreme Court, serving until 1985. Douglas is the author of two other books on evidence and family law and is a trial attorney in Concord, New Hampshire. He and his wife, Debra, live in Bow, New Hampshire, where they serve as publisher and editors of the Bow Times, the local newspaper with a circulation of 4,100.

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