The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York by Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, American Antiquarian Society, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York

Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, American Antiquarian Society, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

288 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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Obscene, libidinous, loathsome, lascivious. Those were just some of the ways critics described the nineteenth-century weeklies that covered and publicized New York City’s extensive sexual underworld. Publications like the Flash and the Whip—distin...

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