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All Around the Town: Murder, Scandal, Riot and Mayhem in Old New York (Adre naline Classics)
by Asbury, Herbert
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- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 1560255218
- ISBN 13
- 9781560255215
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About This Item
US: Basic Books, 2003. Paperback. Good. The author of the New York Times best-seller The Gangs of New York returns with a second volume of tales from Gotham's underworld. In this wonderfully colorful and surprising history, Herbert Asbury expands his purview beyond the Five Corners to the entire city of New York. From Lord Cornbury, a loo nily corrupt, cross-dressing British governor of colonial days, to the Broa dway pickpocket who built herself a mansion in Hoboken, where she set herse lf up as European royalty, to prohibitionist Carry Nation's first visit to a scornful city of saloons (and her memorable confrontation with the drunke n John L. Sullivan), All Around the Town brings to vivid life a memorable r ange of characters, grifters, murderers, and madmen. Rediscovering a fascin ating array of lost corners in the history of the city, Asbury shows that t oday's tabloid headlines have nothing on the daily goings-on 150 years ago. From "The Sawing-Off of Manhattan Island" to "The Wickedest Man in New Yor k" to "The Flour Riot of 1837," these twenty-three lively and accessible ac counts make for top-notch, eccentric popular history as told by a master.
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- Bookseller
- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000060822
- Title
- All Around the Town: Murder, Scandal, Riot and Mayhem in Old New York (Adre naline Classics)
- Author
- Asbury, Herbert
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1560255218
- ISBN 13
- 9781560255215
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 2003
- Bookseller catalogs
- True Crime;
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