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The Gangs of New
York: An Informal History of the Underworld by
Herbert
Asbury, Jorge Luis Borges
(Foreword)
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- Paperback: 420 pages ; Dimensions (in
inches): 1.13 x 8.27 x 5.52
- Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press; ISBN:
1560252758; (October 10, 2001)
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Book 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.
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