The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury

384 pages first pub 1927 (editions)

nonfiction crime history true crime challenging informative slow-paced
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The Gangs of New York has long been hand-passed among its cult readership. It is a tour through a now unrecognizable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence cobbled, as Luc Sante has written, "from legend, memory, police records, the self-ag...

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