Name: The Gangs of New York

Full name: The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld

Author: Herbert Asbury
Year: 1927
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History, Non Fiction, Mystery, Crime, True crime, Historical fiction, Classic

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9781560252757
9780307388988
1560252758
0307388980
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-aggrandizements of aging crooks, popular journalism, and solid historical research." Asbury presents the definitive work on this subject, an illumination of the gangs of old New York that ultimately gave rise to the modern Mafia and its depiction in films like The Godfather.
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