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Gangs of New York, The - An Informal History of the Underworld

By: Thunder's Mouth Press

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Thunder's Mouth Press)

Last Stocked on 8/9/2018

Product Info

Title
Gangs of New York, The - An Informal History of the Underworld
Category
Author
Herbert Asbury
Publish Year
2001
Pages
366
Dimensions
5.5x8.25x1.125"
NKG Part #
2147589526
Type
Softcover

Description

Published to coincide with the release of Martin Scorsese's film, Gangs of New York, starring Leonard DiCaprio, 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