Gangs of New York

Informationen zum Autor Herbert Asbury was born into a strictly Methodist family in Missouri in 1889. His pious background and his subsequent rejection of Methodism greatly influenced both his philosophy of life and his career as reporter and author. Indeed, many of his books deal with the darker, seamier side of American life. He is best know for his true crime books set in the 19th and early 20th century America. He died in 1963 of chronic lung problems, the legacy of a gas-attack in France during the first World War. Klappentext The classic book about gangs in 19th-century New York, now filmed by Martin Scorsese. The story describes the city's dire abysmal poverty and violence, researched from stories, memory and police records. Zusammenfassung The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence centred around the infamous slum of Five Points, with its rival Irish and American gangs.

Product details

• Authors: Herbert Asbury, Asbury Herbert
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.01.2003
• EAN: 9780099436744
• ISBN: 978-0-09-943674-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Arrow Paperbacks; Arrow Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Filmbücher (Hintergrundwissen, -materialien) div., New York, New York City, True Crime, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Organized crime, Social and cultural history, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950