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The Gangs of New York
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The Gangs of New York (2001) (edit title/settings)

An Informal History of the Underworld

by Herbert Asbury (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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  • - Anecdotal history detailing the 19th C wars and exploits of the infamous Gangs of New York, written in the 1920s.
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  • “But Monk was always a gentleman; he was proud of the fact that he had never struck a woman with his club, no matter how much she annoyed him. When it became necessary to discipline a lady for a lapse in manners, he simply blackened her eyes with his fist.”

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THE FIRST of the gangs which terrorized New York at frequent intervals for almost a century were spawned in the dismal tenements that squatted in the miasmal purlieus of the Five Points area of the Bloody Ould Sixth Ward, which comprised, roughly, the territory bounded by Broadway, Canal street, the Bowery and Park Row, formerly Chatham street.

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Foreword by Jorge Luis Borges
Introduction

1. The Cradle of the Gangs
2. Early Gangs of the Bowery and Five Points
3. Sin Along the Water Front
4. River Pirates
5. The Killing of Bill the Butcher
6. The Police and Dead Rabbit Riots
7. The Draft Riots
8. The Draft Riots (continued)
9. When New York Was Really Wicked
10. The King of the Bank Robbers
11. The Whyos and Their Times
12. Kingdoms of the Gangs
13. The Prince of Gangsters
14. The Wars of the Tongs
15. The Last of the Gang Wars
16. The Passing of the Gangster

Slang of the Early Gangsters
Bibliography
Index

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This book is in Books Filmed By Martin Scorsese. (community list)

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  1. Herbert Asbury (Author)

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  1. Jorge Luis Borges (Foreword)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: October 10, 2001
ISBN: 978-1560252757
Page Count: 366 pages

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