The Bloody Sixth
Joshua Brown: The Real Gangs of New York, 23 January 2003
The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
by Herbert Asbury.
Arrow, 366 pp., £6.99, January 2003,0 09 943674 4 Show More
by Herbert Asbury.
Arrow, 366 pp., £6.99, January 2003,
“... to Gilded Age and Progressive Era reformers, turn-of-the-century dime novelists and reporters, and Herbert Asbury, a lapsed Methodist Missourian turned New York reporter. Asbury’s The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld, published in 1928, vigorously narrated an unbroken chain of criminality ... ”
