QUTTING THE MOB: HOW THE "YUPPIE DON" LEFT THE MAFIA AND LIVE TO TELL HIS STORY

QUTTING THE MOB: HOW THE ''YUPPIE DON'' LEFT THE MAFIA AND LIVE TO TELL HIS STORY Michael Franzese and Dary Matera (Harper, $5.99, 1992) Is it a waste of energy to get upset at the cravenness on display here-not just Michael Franzese's implausible life story but his publisher's willingness to pass it off as a ''revealing'' look at the mob? In publishing, it seems, words don't much matter as long as you've got a promotable property-and Franzese is certainly that. D