Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the New York Underworld by Herbert Asbury

Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the New York Underworld

The Gangs of New York #1

Herbert Asbury

400 pages first pub 1927 (editions)

fiction crime history true crime challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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A New York Times Bestseller Looking at the lurid side of organized crime from the 1800's to Prohibition, this is a tour through a now unrecognizable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence. Asbury presents the definitive work on this subject...

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