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The basis of Martin Scorcese's acclaimed 2003 film, The Gangs of New York is a dramatic and entertaining glimpse at a city's dark past.
Focusing on the saloon halls, gambling dens, and winding alleys of the Bowery and the notorious Five Points district, The Gangs of New York dramatically evokes the destitution and shocking violence of a turbulent era, when colorfully named criminals like Dandy John Dolan, Bill the Butcher, and Hell-Cat Maggie lurked in the shadows, and infamous gangs like the Plug Uglies, the Dead Rabbits, and the Bowery Boys ruled the streets. A rogues' gallery of prostitutes, pimps, poisoners, pickpockets, murderers, and thieves, Herbert Asbury's whirlwind tour through the low life of nineteenth-century New York has become an indispensible classic of urban history.
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"A universal history of infamy, the history of gangs in New York...contains all the confusion and cruelty of the barbarian cosmologies."
"The tale is one of blood, excitement and debauchery."
"The Gangs of New York is one of the essential works of the city, as deserving of a permanent place on the shelf as Stephen Crane's Maggie, Walt Whitman's chapters on horse cars and theatres in Specimen Days, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "My Lost City, " Chester Himes's Blind Man with a Pistol, and Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets."
"Still the most detailed, reliable, and readable account of the nether side of Chicago's first century, deserves reading and rereading....A remarkably lively and informative introduction to a slice of the story of one of the world's truly fascinating places"
"A distinct contribution to Americana. . . . The tale is one of blood, excitement, and debauchery."
--The New York Times
--Luc Sante, author of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York "A univeral history of infamy, the history of the gangs of New York contains all the confusion and cruelty of the barbarian cosmologies."
--Jorge Luis Borges "One of the best American books of its kind. Mr. Asbury writes in a direct and engaging manner."
--Edmund Pearson, The Saturday Review of Literature
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Asbury's violent, visceral novel was adapted by Martin Scorsese into the biggest film of 2002. Nominated for ten Oscars, winner of two BAFTAs and one Golden Globe, Gangs of New York had a hit cast: Leonardo Di Caprio, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Day Lewis and Liam Neeson.
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- PublisherHippocrene Books
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0880294299
- ISBN 13 9780880294294
- BindingHardcover
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