The Gangs of New York An Informal History of the Underworld (9781560252757) Herbert Asbury, Jorge Luis Borges

Product Details:

Paperback: 366 pages
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press; Later Printing edition (October 10, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1560252758
ISBN-13: 978-1560252757



Product Dimensions:

8 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces

The Gangs of New York has long been hand-passed among its cult readership 5.0 magazine download. 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 5.0 magazine download.” 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 5.0 magazine download. “A universal history of infamy [that] contains all the confusion and cruelty of the barbarian cosmologies 5.0 magazine download....”—Jorge Luis Borges “The tale is one of blood, excitement and debauchery.”—The New York Times Book Review “The Gangs of New York is one of the essential works of the city....”—Luc Sante, The New York Review of Books

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