A review by pjdoolittle
The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury

2.0

Disappointing. I was hoping for a solid historical background of the social and economic conditions leading to the formation and development of early New York crime, but this was, instead, just a loose collection of the better known characters and unreferenced accounts of their exploits. The book included only very brief and overly dramatic accounts of the abject poverty the early New York poor endured.