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The gangs of New York : an informal history of the underworld / by Herbert Asbury ; [foreword by Jorge Luis Borges].
- Title
- The gangs of New York : an informal history of the underworld / by Herbert Asbury ; [foreword by Jorge Luis Borges].
- Author
- Asbury, Herbert, 1891-1963.
- Publication
- New York : Thunder's Mouth Press ; [Emeryville, CA] : Distributed by Publishers Group West [2001]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986
- Description
- xvi, 366 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Examines New York's gangs of the nineteenth century and charts their influence on the underworld in the twentieth century.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- True crime stories
- Récits criminels.
- Note
- Previously published: New York : Paragon House, 1990.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-356) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword by Jorge Luis Borges -- Introduction -- Cradle of the gangs -- Early gangs of the Bowery and Five Points -- Sin along the water front -- River pirates -- Killing of Bill the Butcher -- Police and Dead Rabbit Riots -- Draft Riots -- When New York was really wicked -- King of the bank robbers -- Whyos and their times -- Kingdoms of the gangs -- Prince of gangsters -- Wars of the Tongs -- Last of the gang wars -- Passing of the gangster -- Slang of the early gangsters.
- ISBN
- 1560252758 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2001046256
- OCLC
- 47644025
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library