Description: THE GANGS OF NEW YORK An Informal History of the Underworld By Herbert Asbury Foreword by Jorge Luis Borges 1998 Thunder's Mouth Press New York, Trade Paperback, 366 pages FIVE POINTS The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, And Became the World's Most Notorious Slum By Tyler Anbinder First Printing, October, 2002 Plume, New York, Trade Paperback, 532 pages GANGS OF NEW YORK: The basis of Martin Scorcese's acclaimed 2003 film, The Gangs of New York is a dramatic and entertaining glimpse at a city's dark past. Focusing on the saloon halls, gambling dens, and winding alleys of the Bowery and the notorious Five Points district, The Gangs of New York dramatically evokes the destitution and shocking violence of a turbulent era, when colorfully named criminals like Dandy John Dolan, Bill the Butcher, and Hell-Cat Maggie lurked in the shadows, and infamous gangs like the Plug Uglies, the Dead Rabbits, and the Bowery Boys ruled the streets. A rogues' gallery of prostitutes, pimps, poisoners, pickpockets, murderers, and thieves, Herbert Asbury's whirlwind tour through the low life of nineteenth-century New York has become an indispensible classic of urban history. FIVE POINTS: All but forgotten today, the Five Points neighborhood in Lower Manhattan was once renowned the world over. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points both horrified and inspired everyone who saw it. While it comprised only a handful of streets, many of America’s most impoverished African Americans and Irish, Jewish, German, and Italian immigrants sweated out their existence there. Located in today’s Chinatown, Five Points witnessed more riots, scams, prostitution, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in America. But at the same time it was a font of creative energy, crammed full of cheap theaters, dance halls, and boxing matches. It was also the home of meeting halls for the political clubs and the machine politicians who would come to dominate not just the city but an entire era in American politics. Drawing from letters, diaries, newspapers, bank records, police reports, and archaeological digs, Anbinder has written the first-ever history of Five Points, the neighborhood that was a microcosm of the American immigrant experience. The story that Anbinder tells is the classic tale of America’s immigrant past, as successive waves of new arrivals fought for survival in a land that was as exciting as it was dangerous, as riotous as it was culturally rich. Unofficially, companion books, more or less. Excellent condition.
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Publication Year: 1998
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Book Title: The Gangs of New York, Five Points
Author: Herbert Asbury, Tyler Anbinde
Genre: History
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press, Plume
Topic: American History, Cities, Crime, Cultural History, Historic Figures, Political History, Social History, True Crime, True Stories, New York City
