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

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

The Gangs of New York #1

Herbert Asbury

366 pages • first pub 1927 (view editions)

nonfiction crime history true crime dark informative slow-paced
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First published in 1928, Herbert Asbury's whirlwind tour through the low-life of nineteenth-century New York has become an indispensible classic of urban history. Focusing on the saloon halls, gambling dens, and winding alleys of the Bowery and th...

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